Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war."-Homer: Iliad, XIII...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
...being, repaired and outfitted with modern guns and machines. Even the destroyer Shaw, which did not seem to be worth 35?, was "sewed" together and sent to the U.S. mainland, where it was rebuilt. For the most remarkable salvage job in naval engineering history the U.S. could thank Captain Homer N. Wallin and the thousands of naval and civilian workers who labored under...
...Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...
Texas' serious President Homer Price Rainey figures that as 63% of Army men must have either a college education or special training, the educational system should be speeded up so that a boy will finish college, if possible, by the time he is 18. President Rainey wants U.S. high schools to go on a year-round schedule, thinks selected boys should go to college after high school's junior year. When a boy reached 18, the Government could then take charge, pay for any subsequent special training the services required...