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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ODYSSEY OF HOMER-Translated by George Herbert Palmer; illustrated by N. C. Wyeth-Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Odyssey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Odyssey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Some say that Labor will run the Government for 20 years. God knows, at the rate we are going, we will need every minute of it to get anything done!" "Rule Britannia." Piqued at the highly favorable reaction of British public opinion to Laborite Ramsay MacDonald's peace odyssey, the Liberal and Conservative leaders in the Commons (both recent Prime Ministers) tried to convince the House, last week, that they had intended and longed to go to Washington while in office but were prevented by "circumstances." Brief and in comparatively good taste upon this sour-grape theme was kinetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Squabbles | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

CRESCENDO-BEING THE DARK ODYSSEY OF GILBERT STROED-Ethel Mannin-Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Odyssey | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...last of three maps visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands mapped pass in brief review below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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