Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the 27 days of campaigning for the run-off primary for Texas' governorship, hard-pitching, New Dealing Dr. Homer Price Rainey strove mightily to overcome the 152,000-vote handicap that was indicated by last month's indecisive Democratic primary. Said onetime baseballer Rainey: It won't be over till the last man's out in the ninth...
Southern Cross. Because of its Negro player, Montreal had to cancel a Southern exhibition tour. But in the first game of the regular season Jackie belted four hits including a homer and he lost his jitters...
...nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University of Chicago's, now numbers 109.) Last week President Barr announced he was quitting St. John's, going off somewhere else to start a new college-almost exactly like the one he was leaving...
...Proof. At Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis (a city institution for Negroes), Dr. Elman's group, supported by a Government grant, experimented on the basis of the later findings. Most of their patients got no morphine; by the time they reached the hospital they usually felt no pain. On arrival, they were promptly put between sterile sheets, given anti-tetanus injections and, if necessary, plasma transfusions for shock...
Michigan's inquisitorial Republican Senator Homer Ferguson pressed a triumphant question: had the Congressman reported the contribution to the House? He had not. The law, Coffee added blandly, called for reporting of contributions received 10 days before and 30 days after an election. The $2,500 had been an "interim contribution...