Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ODYSSEY OF HOMER?Translated by T. E. Shaw?Oxford University Press...
...army pittance of 60¢ a day. This Royal Air Force mechanic, Aircraftsman Thomas Edward Shaw, known to the world as Col. T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, whose most intellectual duty at present is "tinkering with engines," has just finished a four-year spare-time job of translating The Odyssey into English prose...
After youthful wanderings his odyssey started at Irkutsk where he was employed as a locksmith on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A chance meeting with two political prisoners who had escaped across northern Siberia made up Author Welzl's mind. That spring he bought a horse and cart, made tracks for the Arctic Ocean alone. Too uneducated to follow maps he followed his nose, and the rivers flowing north...
Greek 15b. Homer: the Odyssey. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 12 o'clock. Dr. Cary...
Otheman Stevens in the Los Angeles Examiner: "Some time ago a story of Billy the Kid was issued and called a 'Saga.' If that was a Saga Gun Notches is an Iliad, also an Odyssey. The story of a prairie fire is a bit of an exquisite word painting as ever was written; the incident when Bill Greene at La Cananea and Tom would have taken the State of Sonora from Mexico if Tom could have hog-tied General Kosterlitzsky is a new matter of history...