Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of the seventh, with two out, the Crimson made a brilliant recovery. Buell singled to center and Gordon worked a base on balls. Owen then landed on a low ball, knocking out a liner which looked at first like a homer. Williams made a long run, turned, and reached up for the ball, but it bounced out of his glove. Before he could recover, Owen had reached third and Buell and Gordon had both scored. Two more singles and two errors brought the total to six before Keegan, who substituted for Larrabee in the seventh, grounded out to short...
There is no lack of examples to back up this theory that moderation, even in literary production, is expedient. Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton--all achieved fame by means of a few great works. Most of the least interesting ages in literature have been characterized by their great productivity, while Homer and Dante wrote in ages which produced nothing else worthy of preservation...
Dean Charles Homer Haskins of Cambridge; Professor Manley Ottmer Hudson '10 Law of Cambridge; Professor George Grafton Wilson of Cambridge...
Nevertheless, others less active have sought for Hades in the Sun, in Mars, or in the Moon, where no one could conceivably send them on a party or conquest or exploration. The reliable accounts furnished by Homer and Virgil have been largely disregarded, although as late as the thirteenth century Dante found that the devil was still doing business at the old stand in spite of the fact that Inferno seems to have been going through the Glacial Period just then. But now science has rediscovered what the ancients knew all the time...
...Louise Homer ...........................................music...