Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pounding out a three run homer, pitcher Ted Cook led Adams to a resounding 12 to 4 win over Winthrop in House baseball yesterday. Eliot scored an 8 to 2 victory over winless Kirkland in the only other baseball game. Speedballer Luke Lockwood was never threatened by the hapless Deacons...
...critics of New York are not without courage," said a New York Herald Tribune review of the show. "One of them, in this day of heavy . . . emphasis on non-objectivism and abstraction, dared to include among his favorite ten, pictures by such substantial, solid realists as Eakins, Homer, Luks, Sloan, Wyeth and Burchfield. That. . . takes rather more audacity than naming . . . fashionably fragmentary abstractions...
Winning baseball pitcher was Everett Kasher, who gave up only three hits in the five-and-one-half inning game. Elliot Hawkins of Eliot got the longest hit of the game, a homer that drove in two runs. In softball Humphrey Heidtman pitched Winthrop to a 7 to 6 victory over Eliot. Losing pitcher was Forest Hansen...
...Idea-hungry" middle-aged women can learn enough Greek in ten weeks to read Homer or participate in a 16-week course in how to read a newspaper through the Radcliffe Seminars...
...There still are a few. * Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein...