Word: homers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the 10,000 dealers sat helpless ; helpless sat middle-sized Homer Martin, the spectacled "Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Missouri),* loud-lunged chief of the American Federation of Labor...
...following players have been retained on the squad: Captain Charley Lutz. Will Webber, Jack Stewart, Bud Finegan, Jitbug White, Lee Bird, Joe Romano, Tom Rigby, Ed Rothschild, Chet Legg, Don McSweeney, Fran Simpson, Vic Marans, Homer Peabody, and Jack Fisher. All other candidates are requested to turn in their equipment as soon as possible...
...coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming to the surface periodically for air, they can live in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water; when the water disappears during dry spells, they can survive for long periods buried in the mud, not eating, hardly breathing. Physiologist Homer William Smith of New York University, recounting in Natural History last week the case of the canned lungfish shipped to Chicago, said that lungfish have been observed to live four years without food?the longest authentic fast known to scientists in all the animal kingdom...
...Carnegie International, world's biggest competitive show of contemporary painting. In the Institute's galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public never learns: what artists think of painting. Each year he employs his knowledge to guess the winner before the judges arrive. This year...
University of Texas' Homer Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...