Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the aroma of cigar smoke President Hoover was talking to big, burly Christopher Morley, poet and writer, in the Lincoln Study. Inquisitive about the President's reading habits Mr. Morley had been invited as an overnight White House guest. Last week's Saturday Review of Literature published his White House findings...
Other men entered are: G. Avery '33, E. S. Babbit, T. Baldwin, M. L. Baughman '35, F. B. Beasley 2GB, R. M. Bernstein '35, D. C. Braggiotti '35, R. A. B. Braggiotti '33, H. C. Brooks '36, Clark Bryan '33, Lincoln Bryant...
...taking of the course, or its quasi-prescription for undergraduates against which I protest, but the unconsidered assumption that it represents the model of perfection and the acme of excellence in University teaching. A. Lincoln Gordon...
Taking George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as examples, the author points out here that they are honored for doing entirely different things; Washington because he successfully carried out a war for independence, Lincoln because he successfully crushed a war for independence. As in these outstanding instances, the book shows, a principle absolutely correct within certain limits may not be so under other conditions. The chief theme of the book lies in pointing out how, in the field of public affairs and social relations, principles equally good in their place often come into conflict, making a fertile field for the political...
...Marine Band played dirges at the funerals of Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln; accompanied Garfield's body to Cleveland; played "Lead Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God To Thee" at McKinley's funeral, and "Lead Kindly Light" again at Harding...