Word: worming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jailed, the young would-be assassin successfully defied police efforts to worm a reason out of him. As a matter of course Chief of Police Tsurikichi Maruyama of Tokyo resigned in shame. Had not the bullet been fired in broad daylight in the principal railway station of Tokyo as the Lion was about to board a train...
...until 48 hours after Messrs Whitney and Lindley had bid the President goodnight were persistent newshawks able to worm an admission from the White House that they had been there at all. President Hoover was described as approving the New York Exchange's efforts to curb short selling but unwilling to take any hand in the matter. U. S. officials agreed that the Federal Government lacks authority to deal with short stocks sales on the New York Exchange as it tried to deal with short wheat sales on the Chicago Board of Trade (TIME, Sept...
Burrowing Worm. Also found was a worm which burrows into the human leg, like a hookworm. The boil-like infection which it causes finally breaks, leaves the head of the worm protruding. Any attempt to pull it out suddenly ends disastrously, as the worm breaks in the body. Natives draw out these entozoa, often ten feet long, a few inches per day, reeling them on sticks as they emerge...
There were a million flowers on display, and not a bug or a worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...
...foxes on the Dalton farm were troubled by few of the worries that beset fox-farmers now, such as parasites, ear mites, worm trouble, tailmites, thieves. They were killed, usually late in December, by the weight of a man's foot placed over the lungs or heart so as to leave no blood stains on the fur. Their skins were sold at fabulous prices until fur dealers in Prince Edward Island investigated, bought Charlie Dalton's business and 20 pairs of Charlie Dalton's foxes for $500,000. The highest price ever paid for a fox skin...