Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance since that time. Then his face had been grey with presidential pallor, etched with executive anxiety; now it was ruddy and wreathed in grins or smiles. ¶At the South Dakota State College, Brookings, S. Dak., the President stopped off to make the dedicatory speech at the Lincoln Memorial Library, to lay the cornerstone at the Coolidge Sylvan Theatre, and to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Like many of his public utterances, his speech was packed with intensely local information which, though possessed by a few of his hearers, caused most of them to marvel that...
...League felt better when Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews was at last allowed to re-sign as Assistant Secretary...
...engaged in carving on the face of Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt...
leaned forward from the back seat of his Lincoln limousine, which had been halted in Matawan, N. J., by Policeman Sproul, to answer the policeman's question. Certainly, replied Mr. Rockefeller, the officer might stand on his runningboard and his chauffeur ("Phillips") might overtake a speeder the officer desired to apprehend. Mr. Rockefeller sank back again into the cushions, peered out at a mile of landscape which slipped by in about one minute, watched the officer hand their quarry a summons, handed the officer five new dimes...
Such lay questions were answered by Dr. Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, psychologist at Temple University, Philadelphia, who set Psychologist Aveling right on a minor point besides carrying the Aveling analysis of laughter one illuminating step further. The minor point was: whereas Dr. Aveling supposed hyenas and humans to be the only laughing animals, Dr. Bolton had observed laughter in cows, calves, horses, monkeys; "and the most obvious laughter in the animal kingdom is that...