Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" turned to TIME and read several selections. He compared the clear, concise statements in TIME with the writing of Gibbon, bringing out that the style which characterized Gibbon's writings may be found in the present pages of TIME. . . . ABRAHAM S. ROSEN...
...Abraham Lincoln was but faintly famed as a newspaperman. Yet his writings for the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, 111. , were the nursery rhymes from which developed the majestic cadences of the Gettysburg Address. The newspaper with this notable tradition, now named the Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...
...Interested primarily in the aesthetic side of life," Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson, of the University of Chicago, last week held an exhibition of his paintings in Chicago. With his own hands Dr. Michelson adjusted against the wall 18 watercolors, twelve portraits in pen and ink. Said he, "Of all the oil portraits I made, I have destroyed every canvas...
...supply. Last week he was in the totally pleasant position of having ample supply and ample demand, for he had completed the purchase, for approximately $5.000,000, of the Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, Ill. Much of the Illinois Watch shares come from the Bunn family of Springfield, descendants of Abraham Lincoln's good friends & political supporters...
...humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only by his esoteric knowledge of his chosen field...