Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pocketbook Issue. Almost everywhere in the U.S., the pocketbook-the level of income on the farm, the level of employment in the cities-will be a big issue. A Republican seat that will be heated more than-most others by economic factors is that of Michigan's Homer Ferguson. Increasing unemployment in Michigan, particularly in the automobile industry, and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's cries on the subject are hurting Ferguson. The Democrats have yet to pick their candidate, but the leading prospects are two former U.S. Senators: Blair Moody (1951-53) and Prentiss M. Brown...
...broad general-education courses, distributed throughout the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This amounts to a study of giant themes-e.g., the ideas of good v. evil in Western literature, freedom and authority in the modern world, the principles of science. From the start, students read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study the great laws of science and the experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen field. Finally (for honors men) comes the senior thesis that might bear the title, "A 13th Century Sermon in Picard...
...Along Eliot's five feet of authors: Milton, Emerson, Virgil, Robert Burns, Goethe, Adam Smith, William Penn, Dante, Darwin, Homer. Among the omissions T.R. protested: Aristotle, Thucydides, Chaucer, Moliere...
...York Giants traded the man who won them a pennant in 1951. Outfielder Bobby Thomson, 30, whose ninth-inning play-off homer beat Brooklyn, went to the Milwaukee Braves for Pitcher Johnny Antonelli in a six-player deal...
...anything less would invite its resurrection at every succeeding session of Congress. Secretary of State Dulles recommended that the President accept a watered-down amendment which, if passed, would effectively kill off the Bricker amendment. Ike agreed, and Senate Majority Leader William Knowland and Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Homer Ferguson hammered out a substitute draft...