Word: odyssey
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Greek 15a and 15b, on Homer: the Ilind and the Odyssey, and Latin 15, on Virgil and his works, are being omitted for the second straight year...
...this sounds rather bad for Crimson chances, but the home team will have one hope for scoring an upset. That is that the boys from Ithaca will be tired out by their Odyssey, which has taken them to New Haven and to Hanover already this week...
Garrulous Old Boy. North of the Bay of Pylos in Greece, the University of Cincinnati's Archeologist Carl William Blegen unearthed fire-scarred remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories...
...tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...
...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier