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Word: abre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abr h po a o Harstone, lf 3 0 0 4 0 1 Kurtz, cf 1 1 0 1 0 0 Keyes, ss 1 1 0 2 6 0 Tully, 1b 4 0 0 10 1 1 Davis, rf, lf 4 0 2 1 0 1 Lovett, cf, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 0 Liverance, 2b 4 0 0 2 2 0 Regan, c 2 1 0 3 1 0 Scorgie, 3b 3 0 1 1 2 1 Cutler, rf* 1 0 0 0 Houghton, p 2 0 0 0 2 1 Gardella...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Nine Defeated Northeastern Yesterday 8-3 | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...quick to seize upon the rude rusticity of Lincoln features and figure.* During the Lincoln-Douglas debates every U. S. newspaper-reader came to recognize the beardless, bony railsplitter, shabbily clothed, big stick in hand, whacking at his rotund little antagonist. At this time the names "Honest Abe," "Old Abr'm" and "The Rail-Splitter" were popularly given Lincoln. These and others less affectionate stayed with him until his assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...piece of silly affectation," but on his inauguration day appeared with clumpy black chin whiskers. A cartoon of that day shows a drug store interior with a sign over the door, bearing the legend: "Agency for the Lincoln Whiskeropherous." On a table is a smirking bust of the hirsute "Abr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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