Word: worms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ground embracing the ball. For 15 minutes the contest waxed warm at this point, but Yale stood firm and played in such steady form that no touch-down was scored against her. At last, much to the relief of Yale supporters, Beecher's little frame was seen to worm his way through the Princeton rush line, and carry the ball to the middle of the field. It was thence slowly worked to Princeton's goal and Yale backers were beginning to breathe freely as the end of the game drew rapidly near and no points were scored to Princeton...
...number of men not in any way connected with the university, who manage to worm their way into the basement of the gymnasium to see the tug-of-war teams practice, and the base ball men playing in the cage is a source of annoyance to the students themselves, and to the director. Seeing to what an extent the privileges of the gymnasium were abused, Dr. Sargent one afternoon last week, ordered all not dressed in gymnasium costumes to retire from the basement. We hope that this action will be continued in the future, and loafers, and strangers strictly forbidden...
...What these contents are, let us not too curiously inquire. If the fishes leave anything, we shall probably hear of it from the officers of the Morgue. A dark, heavily veiled figure is pacing the Pont Neuf slowly and irresolutely. A human soul has been delivered over to the worm that dieth not. A sweet face is wan and pinched with agony; two wild eyes gaze down into the cold, whirling, gurgling water; there is a cry of despair, a frantic leap,-and a lost soul has rushed unsummoned to meet a just God. Next day the body is found...
...president of Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which for a day or two necessitates absence from the class room, but nothing is ever said of the broken down book-worm whose back is bent, shoulders rounded and eyes ruined. At Harvard College the gymnasium is one of the best equipped in the country, and the students take just as much exercise as the director, who is both a trained gymnast and a skilful physician, counsels. No one ever heard...
...snow blew in gusts across the village street; and in the pauses of the wind one could hear the sea beating against the worm-eaten old piers. The inhabitants of Posett came to the windows and looked out into the darkness, and knowingly observed that it would be "worse afore it was done with." So they drew the curtains and shut in the cheerful radiance of their own warm firesides...