Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity netmen for the Big Red struggle will be chosen from among Captain Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Chet Legg, John Stewart, Ross Lyell, Harris Westhelmer, Homer Peabody, and Cory Wynn...
...fine start by scoring victories over Pennsylvania and Dartmouth behind its sensational Sophomore left hander, Ted Harrison, fell into error Saturday against the Lions and bowed, 4 to 1, although Joe Wood, Jr. held the victors to six hits while his mates were pounding out nine, including a homer. That victory was the fourth in six games for Columbia, giving it a tie for second with the Elis. In the week's other game, Princeton achieved its first victory of the season, beating Pennsylvania...
...Homer Ferguson is a quiet, mild-mannered Scotsman with unruly grey hair, nearsighted, friendly blue eyes, and a keen mind which he is never in any hurry to make up, or afterwards change. A graduate of the University of Michigan's Law School, he taught school, studied medicine and dentistry before he decided he wanted to practice law. From that point his career ran in a straight line...
...Governor of Michigan appointed solid, able Mr. Ferguson a circuit judge. In his judicial routine Homer Ferguson won the respect of lawyers and colleagues alike. There he was doing his quiet job, when the noses of the circuit court sniffed a decidedly gamy smell curling up from Detroit and suburban Hamtramck. The police blandly assured them that everything was O.K., but the circuit court decided to poke around, appointed Judge Ferguson (under a peculiar Michigan law) to sit as a one-man grand jury and find out what was making the stink...
Illinois' Governor Henry Homer turned over to the Illinois State Historical Library his Lincoln collection (2,000 books, 3,700 pamphlets, 800 catalogs and miscellaneous items), one of the best in the world, "to be used permanently by the people of the State and nation...