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...Illinois' ghoulish-minded Brothers Albright were represented by Maine landscapes with as moldy-looking surfaces as the worm's-eye views of decomposing human flesh which made them famous (TIME, July...
...magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...
...last the tide, not to say worm, has turned. Despite suffrage, Vassar, and the W.C.T.U., women are again the weaker sex. The adolescent freshman, once thought "cute," is now reckoned a full-fledged college man. Sophomores are considered men of the world, and juniors and seniors are looked upon with respect approaching that given to Boyer--or Bob Hope...
...Malicious Falsehood." The President then repudiated the "old worm-eaten chestnut" that he has ever "represented himself as indispensable." This he described as a "malicious falsehood," to which, he added, he was accustomed-but he still did resent "libelous statements about...
Tucked away in Dean Hanford's safe in University Hall is a 12 by 6 piece of worm-eaten brown oak with a common look that hides a three-century history of Harvard significance. It's a piece from a doorway in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and antiquaries feel sure that once upon a time when John Harvard was going to college at Emmanuel, he must have brushed against the wood with his gown...