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Word: lincoln (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford (Ford, Lincoln) was quoted as saying, astoundingly: "I am sure they [ancient peoples] had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Mr. Ford did not deny the general supposition that Ford Motor Co. (U. S.) stock in some form would soon be offered to investors, just as Ford Motor Co. Ltd. (British) has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Auto Show | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...palatable, would not go to the trouble of breaking it with a spoon. So he consulted a machinist and worked out a process for drawing the cooked wheat into shreds, forming the shreds into loaves, and baking the loaves in coal ovens. After peddling his biscuits in baskets around Lincoln, Neb. and Denver, Col., Mr. Perky acquired some money, moved to Worcester, Mass., started a Shredded Wheat factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: N. B. C--Shredded Wheat | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...March of last year, two members of the Liberal Club met speakers from Lincoln University in Tremont Temple, Boston on the question of the intermixing of races. No decision was rendered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLORED ORATORS TO DEBATE LIBERAL CLUB IN VACATION | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lincoln Nude | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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