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...care what you were before you got here--you're Dartmouth freshmen, kin to the worm, now, and will be treated as such. Consider what's coming an honor, an undergraduate equivalent of matriculation, a sign of acceptance into the Dartmouth community. If you still think it's kid stuff, far, far beneath your mature dignity, remember this: Dartmouth was run that way before you were thought of, will be run that way after you're dead. If you don't like it, what the hell are you here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...screwed up his courage last week and read Congressional Candidate Edmund Bobrowicz right out of the Democratic Party. Said Tehan: "I am convinced that Bobrowicz is a Communist Party member." In effect, the purge set a Democratic policy: the bosses were not going to let Communists masquerading as Democrats worm into office-at least, not if their masks slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Purge | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Jack-of-many-deals, he operated in real estate, films, aircraft promotion. Twice in nine years he put himself through the bankruptcy wringer for a loss to his creditors of more than $600,000. Yet he had been able to worm himself into Government jobs that opened up new fields for his operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Sure Bait. In Superior, Wis., Mildred Worm agreed to marry David Hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Eskimos remove the eyes and swallow them so the animal cannot watch itself being skinned. The first time Campbell went on a walrus hunt, it all but turned his stomach to see a native gulping down handfuls of live maggots from the carcass. Once he tried a live worm from a slaughtered caribou, and found it most disagreeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wonderful White World | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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