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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sandburg's Lincoln* | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Prairie Years (2 vols.) *Carl Sandburg Harcourt, Brace ($10). *The Poetry Society's Prize was awarded also that year to Stephen Vincent Benet for Heavens and Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sandburg's Lincoln* | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...statement by Edward C. Blum, genial president of Abraham & Straus ("the Perfect Store") summed the matter up: "Brooklyn with its more than 2,000,000 population can support an institution of collegiate degree very easily. The institutions of that character in Brooklyn now, although they art private, are crowded to capacity and there are many waiting to enter or go elsewhere for their studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Brooklyn | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

Died. Lucien S. Hanks, 87, pioneer banker of Madison, Wis., famed because of his much bruited assertion that Abraham Lincoln once kicked him out of a bed (at the home of William Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 28, 1925 | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

Everett Addoms, Jr., Exeter; Abraham Martin Aloff, English High School; George Alpert, Boston Latin School; Warren Wilcox Anthony, Andover; Charles Francis Ayers, Jr., Northeastern Preparatory School, Boston; Talbot Baker, Milton Academy; Nathan Spencer Barnes, Thacher School, Ojai Valley, Cal.;. Philip Barbour Bennett, Riverdale Country School, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Harold Berliner, Boston Latin School; Clarence Edwin Brown, Cambridge High and Latin School; Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Jr., Cambridge High and Latin School; Dean Chamberlin, Exeter; Grover Arvel Chenoweth, Boston Latin School; Albert Goodwill Churchill, Browne and Nichols School; Henry Ives Cobb, 3d., Groton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE SOLONS DISCUSS STANDARDS AND AWARD HONORS | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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