Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esmond Lincoln Sutcliffe, of Fall River...
...Edmund Lincoln Thaxter, of Cambridge...
...this month in which we celebrate the birthdays of our two greatest Americans, it is of interest to know what "the emancipator" thought of "the father". I wish to submit here the tribute which Lincoln paid to Washington at the close of an address delivered in 1842, and published in the "Sangamon Journal" of Springfield, III., on March 26, 1842. This tribute was lost for seventy-eight years--till one day in February, 1920, L. H. Alexander of Philadelphia discovered it in the files at Washington. Because it is so little known, and because it is so simple and beautiful...
Score, Harvard 1926, 38; M. I. T. 1926, 27. Baskets from floor, Smith 6, Rauh 4, Jones, Timmerman 5, Bianchi 2, Remington 2, Walsh. Goals from fouls, Smith 15, Nash, Timmerman 7. Referee, McGuiness. Timekeeper, Lincoln. Time of halves, 20 minutes...
Amid the tales of Lincoln by people who knew someone else who once met him, and the anecdotes that hitherto have escaped general publicity, comes the announcement of the novel and distinctly appropriate method of celebration adopted by the Post office Department. In the new series of stamps being prepared are two dealing with Lincoln: a three-cent bearing his portrait and a one-dollar denomination with a picture of the memorial at Washington. Last Monday the first of these was put on sale at Hodgenville, Kentucky, and the second at Springfield, Illinois, as a mark of honor...