Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Butler did not say that Homer was a woman. He wrote a learned and sober book in demonstration of the strong possibility that the Odyssey as opposed to the Iliad was written by a woman. His hypothesis is all the more remarkable in that he does not seem to have come across the classical reference charging Homer with having stolen the substance of the Odyssey from a woman writer called Phantasia. Butler also wrote an extremely interesting book on Shakespeare's Sonnets; it was Butler who started the close scrutiny of the homosexual element in them...
Like new games and Labor troubles, new magazines, particularly pocket-sized ones, have sprouted like dandelions across the green fields of the nation's economic recovery.* So far new games and the Labor troubles seem likely to outlast most of the magazines. Last week three more pocket-sized periodicals, all monthlies, all 25?, all without advertising, were in evidence. First to dandelion onto U. S. newsstands was They Say, a yellow-jacketed, staff-written journal of opinion featuring "the views ... of the audience rather than the orator, of the pews rather than the pulpit." Publisher Herbert Hungerford, 62, onetime...
...mathematics, the odds against making an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries through 40 runs of 25 each are ten-thousand-billion-billion-billion-billion to 1. In his complete dossier of 100,000 tries he has longer runs and higher averages than this, which would seem to rule out chance with devastating finality...
...Great Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...
...Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march, a grudge at troopers and gunners and wagoneers, a surfeit of hills and towns and faces and sunshine and rain...