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...Morph" doesn't return next fall, Harlow will really have his hands full trying to find another multiple-threat back to take his place. Lee has proved himself one of the greatest pass-defenders ever to worm his way into a tight-fitting Crimson Jersey, besides exhibiting a healthy degree of caiss in the punt-handling and open-field-running departments...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: GRIDDERS END SIX WEEKS OF SPRING DRILL | 5/6/1941 | See Source »

Found. In Siler City, N. C., embarrassed Attorney L. P. Dixon inserted an ad in the local paper: "Found-one liquor still-complete with cap and worm on or near my land. Owner please identify and pay for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Polymorphous-i.e., varying radically in form from season to season (like insects which are now egg, now worm, now butterfly). Plants once classed as unrelated proved to be variant forms of one species. And as a fungus changed form, it often changed the host it preyed upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vegetable Vampires | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Making his vow and donning his razor blades, Sir John challenged the Worm. They fought on a rock in the river, and after the Worm had wounded itself on the blades Sir John hacked it in two with his sword. One half floated down the river and, unable to rejoin, the Worm died. But Sir John did not kill the next living creature he saw. It was his father. The next nine generations of Lambtons died violent deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Deadly Worm | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Dormant for centuries, the Curse of the Worm is apparently regaining power. The suicidal Viscount's uncle was killed in World War I. One cousin disappeared from a liner, another died in a car smash. Two years ago his grandmother was killed by a fall. When he was ten, young Lambton himself disappeared mysteriously for several days. One night last week servants heard the Viscount in the kitchen cooking his usual midnight snack of ham & eggs. Next morning they found him sprawled in a fountain on the castle lawn, his brains blown out by a charge from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Deadly Worm | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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