Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance passer-by gets the credit, in a popular legend, for saving the brand-new life of Abraham Lincoln, born 142 years ago this week in an insanitary cabin near Hodgensville, Ky. Soon after the future President came into the world under the supervision of a rural midwife, according to the story now retold by Chicago's Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, a neighbor named Isom Enlow "happened by." Finding the newcomer blue with cold, Neighbor Enlow set matters to rights by pouring down the baby's throat some melted turkey fat, which he carried to lubricate...
...researchers who worked together for seven years to discover the wonder-drug streptomycin, and then had a falling-out last year (TIME, March 20), finally patched up their difference in a New Jersey court. With the approval of Judge E. Thomas Schettino, Rutgers University's famed Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud...
...midpoint in the Civil War, some of Abraham Lincoln's fellow Republicans wanted him to dump Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
...England abolitionists and dream-wrapped Southern devotees of Sir Walter Scott; the unnecessary struggle that resulted eventually ended, as it had to do, with victory for the side with the most iron foundries; it was rather a pity that the names of two such broad-minded individuals as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee ever got mixed up in this intolerant and partisan affair...
...figures, Sandburg, during a long productive life, has developed least as a writer, changed least as a man. His poetry, dredged raw from the look and experience of "the people," is from start to finish a shrewd, tender, cantankerous and lovingly slangy impressionist folk-portrait. Even his monumental biography, Abraham Lincoln, ungainly and near-noble, is a research-buttressed prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from all but their private claques...