Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass meeting demanding electric instead of mule railways, posters read: "Lincoln set the Negroes free. Sprague has set the Mule free...
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...Lincoln, Neb. Professor John C. Jensen of Nebraska Wesleyan University ponders lightning. Currently he has shed light thereon in the Physical Review...
...Lincoln, Neb. where Professor Jensen ponders the lightning, is a fair place for it. Better is Tampa, Fla. which holds the U. S. record with 94 thunderstorms a year. Best is Baliburg in Cameroon, Africa with 200 a year. San Jose, Calif, has the U. S. minimum with one a year. Most lightning goes from cloud to cloud. What goes from cloud to ground kills about 50 people per year...
...Sabbath. Funerals are too mournful; the Sabbath should be a day of reverent rejoicing. Some Christians, however, take a mournful pleasure in funerals. Lately, a Christian group banned Sunday funerals, but not with the purpose of depriving any one of Sunday pleasures. For three years the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, Neb. has worked for a city ordinance prohibiting Sunday funerals. The Lincoln City Council unanimously approved an ordinance drafted by Methodist Rev. Walter Aitken, Baptist Rev. C. H. Walcott, and G. T. Slavery of the United Brethren. Lincoln ministers feel they are busy enough with Sunday services, baptisms, christenings, church...