Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes off for the Squash season today when the University racquetmen meet the strong Union Boat Club group. Team B. meets B. A. A. at Boston and the 1929 outfit takes on Lincoln...
Whereas the melodramatic rapidly of the picture is forgivable, we cannot possibly pardon Mr. Griffith for those idle moments of sentimentality when he tried to make up for all the nasty things he thought about Abraham Lincoln during the making of "The Birth of a Nation." Not that we are against sentiment as a general rule--oh, dear no--but this was almost maudlin...
...General Lincoln C. Andrews issued an order to all prohibition agents...
...mill a gallon is to be placed on the manufacture of near-beer and other cereal beverages. The tax was written into the bill at the request of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, in order to enable him to have constant control and inspection of near-beer breweries to prevent them from selling high-power beer...
...have nothing against Yale; I have nothing against Harvard, but I believe that if some millionaire had put Abraham Lincoln in Yale or Harvard, he would never have been placed in Who's Who. The reason for this," he continued, "is that they are over-organized, over-standardized and over-specialized. They suppress genius and put a premium on mediocrity." The New Student