Word: abe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard has been holding May 25th, the date of the Japanese team's arrival in Boston, open for the University of the Philippines but their trip has been abandoned, no that the date, which comes between the two Princeton games is free. Consequently Harvard has replied to also Abe, the baseball manager at Waseda, arranging for a game on that date, subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee...
...given us a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln in the making. The main theme of the volume is the story of the "years of building and sentiment," before Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd, and the significant thread in the whole skein of minor plots is the romance of Abe and Ann Rutledge. This episode Mr. Bacheller makes the turning point in the life of his hero. He makes one of his characters say after Lincoln's last visit to Ann before her death...
...Abe when he came out of the tavern that day. He was not the Abe we had all known. He was different. There were new lines in his face. It was sorrowful. His steps were slow. He had passed out of his young manhood. When I spoke to him he answered with that gentle dignity now so familiar to all who know him. From that hour he was Abraham Lincoln...