Word: homer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastballs, curves and change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller's burial, it seemed, would have to be put off for a while; the rest of the Indians felt healthier...
Last week Robert Frost was on his farm near Ripton, Vt., where this spring, with his partner, Stafford Dragon, he manufactured 60 gallons of fine maple sirup. He had also, in the course of the school year, visited and lectured at 20 colleges; but his Homer Noble farm (named for a former owner) is where he spends the longest stretch of the year. He passes his time there, reading history and biography, sometimes working around the rugged mountain farm. When he gets to the Homer Noble farm the arrival is, in a geographical way, something like the one he wrote...
...fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth innings while the Crimson touched him for two singles in the ninth. The visitors loaded the bases in the fifth and had two man on in the seventh only to have popups end the rally. There was no Chip Gannon to whack a homer this year and Godin, though adequate, was not sparkling. He struck out five to make the new EIBL strikeout record...
...Turner--split the pitching duties. Only Turner got away unscathed, and it took some fine support to save him, Godin and Hymans each gave up four runs, including home runs by Jack Wallace and Bill Barron of the 1947 team. Varsity outfielder Herb Neal retaliated with a three-run homer off Wallace in the sixth, when Stuffy McInnis' men got four of their five tallies...
...ready with a merry bit of gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...