Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading article of the first issue is by Isaac R. Pennypacker and is entitled The Lincoln Legend. It shows that until about 40 years before Abraham Lincoln entered public life, the Lincolns were a wealthy and distinguished family of ironmasters who spoke the king's English. By an accident?the fact that Lincoln's grandfather was killed by Indians when Lincoln's father was only six years old? the President was born poor. The article then goes on to argue that Lincoln was a poor general, none too good a judge of men, a shrewd politician...
...sighed at the thought of losing the Republican Convention which it has had once in four years for the last 20. Cleveland brightened at the news, for she has had but one other Convention, that of a faction of the Republican Party which nominated John Cochran to run against Abraham Lincoln...
Advocates. Prominent physicians who have been outspoken advocates of birth control include the late Abraham Jacobi (former President of the American Medical Association), S. Adolphus Knopf, William J. Robinson, A. L. Goldwater, Ira S. Wile, Donald R. Hooker, Reynold A. Spaeth, Lawrence Litchfield, Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Lord Dawson (King George's physician...
...this room is Mr. Nolen's famous "Lincolniana," an exhaustive collection of all relies which refer in any way to Abraham Lincoln. The collection was bequeathed to the College by Mr. Nolen at his death, and on December 26 will be transferred to the Widener Library, where it will be known as the "W. W. Nolen Collection...
...Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, Confucius, Mohammed, Zoroaster,--all these through the avenue of religion appeared before the human race and helped the human mind to evolve many of its rich potentialities of faith, righteousness, and spirituality. Personalities such as Ashoka, Charlemagne, Peter the Great, Napoleon, Mazzini, Shiwaji, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and others rose to eminence and power through sincere and farsighted service to their fellow men in organizing programs of human conduct conducive to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness in the worldly sense...