Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pouring forth their feminine imaginations with wild abandon, students at Smith College are currently engaged in free-for-all discussion on the subject of the dormitory of tomorrow...
According to a recent poll on "Post-War Planning for Smith" appearing in "SCAN", the school's paper, telephones and fireplaces in every room, comfortable beds, floors that do not heave in unexpected places, concealed radiators, automatic dishwashers, and private baths were all mentioned as prominent features of the future college house...
...ILIAD OF HOMER, A LINE FOR LINE TRANSLATION IN DACTYLIC HEXAMETERS-William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller-Macmillan...
...Translators. William Benjamin Smith, professor emeritus at Tulane, left the manuscript of this translation unrevised when he died ten years ago at 84. His friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published...
...speaking of Ghosts, have you seen Don Perkins haunting the barracks of late? Poor "Perk"--as the other pale men call him--was last seen riding a local gust of wind, so prevalent in Boston. Pool shark, as well as the distinguished buddy of his namesake roommate, Smitty Smith spent a quiet weekend resting--as he termed it. Maybe he hasn't heard about Scollay Square--or is it "triangle...