Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer Smith, 52, of New York University, famed physiologist and explorer (Africa, Malaya), whose work has been based largely on studies of osmosis in fish; for fundamental discoveries about the connection between kidney disorders and heart disease...
...Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her career until 1925, when she married Homer Wickenden, a social-welfare official...
...protégé listened, practiced with him. On Hank's advice, Kiner stood closer to the plate, spread his feet a little more, learned to relax instead of freezing when the count got to two strikes against him. By August, Ralph Kiner had almost doubled his 1946 homer production (as a rookie last year he led the National League with 23). Says Greenberg: "He's a much better hitter than I ever...
...This time the copy looks good; and it is well above the average in published collegiate work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea to pretty dubious execution of it. The infiltrating touches of amateurism would...
Fraternal. In Ephrata, Wash., brothers Luther & Homer Gray, meeting for the first time in six years, exchanged a cordial, hearty handshake that fractured Luther...