Word: homerically
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...Bill Homer Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...West, and therefore of the United States, because it was an "education for an informed responsible life in our society." Thus the Redbook authors proposed, for example, that all students take a course called "Great Texts of Literature" in which the books would be selected from a list of "Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy." Reading these authors and learning the "core" of knowledge that was considered the foundation of liberal arts education did not mean that a student would commit to memory a small collection of finely crafted theories...
...swinging. Catcher Albano and Short stop Ike Ackerman, a 44-year-old Iowa attorney, rifled sharp singles off Cub South paw Rich Nye and wound up with 1.000 batting averages against big leaguers. "The vodkas helped," declared Albano. Lessel came within a prayer of knocking a 355-ft. homer. The Arnold family went home happy: Father Leonard managed a grounder, Son Larry stroked a solid single, and twin Gary struck out Banks on a sidearm change-up. The most happy player may have been Soloway , the quintessential bumbler, who was awarded a plaque as Most Improved Player. He promptly...
...around Ebbets Field, vanished home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he writes: "When a long-ball hitter hit a long ball, it would land on Bedford Avenue and bounce down the morainal front to roll toward Coney on the outwash plain. No one in Los Angeles would ever hit a homer like that...
DARTMOUTH 7, CORNELL 5--Two bad teams make for one bad game Sean Maher's two-run homer in the top of the eighth wins it for the Big Green...