Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred minor "leaders" in business. Two non-college scientists like John Burroughs and Luther Burbank may outweigh how many scientific students of lesser rank? Mark Twain and Walt Whitman should count for something more than their absolute numerical ratio. And in the field of polities it is conceivable that Abraham Lincoln may counterbalance several thousand college-bred members of Congress. We face the old anti-eugenic doubt arising from the considerable role played in the history of the race by the sons of carpenters, camel-drivers and ne'er-do-well pioneers. New York Times...
...tells about the Webers-Rickler, Sarah, Fanny, Golda, Bertha, Esther, Leah, Rae, Rebecca, Flora, Anna, George, Abraham, Solomon, Philip, Max and Joseph, little Joseph. They lived in a shoe on Mott Street, Manhattan. 'Nearby, Lew Schanfield tended a street soda-fountain for a man named Gump. One night. Fields taught Weber a dance step he knew. Another night, the little lights on the facade of a brand-new music hall pricked out a trade-name that had become a tradition: WEBER AND FIELDS. They owned the place...
...Chicago, there dwells a renowned professor named Albert Abraham Michelson. A member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, he has made many a valuable contribution to Science. Born at Strelno, Germany, a son of Samuel Michelson and Rosalie Przlubska, he is a brother of Charles Michelson (rabidly Democratic chief of The New York World's Washington Bureau) and of Miriam Michelson (author). But he graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis when these two were still on the Pacific coast, in swaddling clothes...
According to Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lincoln, crowds rushed from the theatre after the assassination to the White House, burst "through the doors, shouted the dreadful news to Robert Lincoln and Major Hay, who sat gossiping in an upper room." Born Aug. 1, 1843, Robert Lincoln lives at No. 3014 N. Street N. W., Washington...
...attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus...