Word: homers
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...neighboring town of Princeton, was founded in 1896 by a native of Princeton, Minn. Shortly after, Homer W. Canfield, who owned land nearby, sold his property to the Wyoming, Idaho & Montana Railroad. The railroad wanted to name the new outpost for Canfield, but he declined, mischievously suggesting Harvard as a replacement, according to Keith Petersen, an editor at the Washington State University Press who has studied the region...
...neighboring town of Princeton, was founded in 1896 by a native of Princeton, Minn. Shortly after, Homer W. Canfield, who owned land nearby, sold his property to the Wyoming, Idaho & Montana Railroad. The railroad wanted to name the new outpost for Canfield, but the declined, mischievously suggesting Harvard as a replacement, according to Keith Petersen, an editor at the Washington State University Press who has studied the region...
...Simon & Schuster; 492 pages; $30), David Denby, film critic for New York magazine, recounts a personal odyssey. Some 30 years after taking the two core-curriculum courses--Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...
...time at all, faxes came rolling in from the big 800 number in the sky. Homer offered a 400-page epic that began...
Fans cling to the glory moments of the game's history because they preserve everybody's summer light. Hey. Will you ever forget Yogi Berra fastened to Don Larsen's chest after Larsen's perfect game? Hey. Bobby Thomson's three-run homer against the Dodgers, Ted Williams' homer in his last at bat. Say hey. Willie Mays' catch of Vic Wertz's drive to center in the Polo Grounds...