Word: homers
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Coach Adolph Samborski's freshman nine was more successful in a Cambridge game yesterday, as it whipped Tufts, 11 to 4. Don Repetto scattered sight hits, and received solid offensive support from Bob Nickerson, who cracked out a homer, and Phil Haughey who added a triple...
...reveals that, of those Senators reached, 45 favored lowering the age qualification, 11 opposed it and 30 were undecided. The same poll showed 29 state governors for, 7 against, and 12 undecided. Senatorial supporters include William F. Knowland (R-Cal), Wayne Morse (Ind-Oregon), Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn), Homer Ferguson (R-Mich) and Francis Case (R.S.D.). The political views of those particular gentlemen are frequently in conflict...
...Senators Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.), Milton R. Young (R-N. Dak.), Edward J. Thye (R-Minn.), Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), Lister Hill (D-Ala.), and Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) have already praised the attempt to restore the appropriation to the full $15 million spent last year...
Michigan's Homer Ferguson arrived late for the hearing, muttering under his breath: "I don't agree with this increasing East-West trade at all, not a bit." Ferguson lost no time in getting Stassen to admit that Russia is currently "disturbed" by civilian shortages. "That," said Ferguson, "would indicate that we are getting results . . . When we find they are in trouble, then we hold a meeting to send them more consumer goods." Replied Stassen: "We are endeavoring to turn the Soviet economy to peaceful pursuits...
...heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious that Knossos on the island of Crete and Pylos on the mainland of Greece had some close connection. But scholars have long assumed that the Achaeans were illiterate, for Homer gives little real indication that his heroes could write. The tablets, concluded the scholars, were therefore probably in the unknown language of the Minoans-the work of a group of conquerors or colonists from the superior civilization of Crete...