Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only three of them were British.† All the British soldiers had laid down their arms and passed from the picture before the actual surrender occurred. . . . General Cornwallis, being indisposed, asked his subordinate General Charles O'Hara to present the sword, denoting defeat. General Washington designated General Benjamin Lincoln to accept it. I believe Washington did not even allow his men to cheer...
Among the scientists, headed by fierce-mustached Professor Rudolph Samoilovitch of Leningrad, are two from the U. S.: Lincoln Ellsworth and Lieut.-Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard. There was a plan to halt the Graf over Kamenev Island in Northern Land Archipelago, lower an inflatable boat or a basket and take aboard Professor Urvantzov, who has for a year conducted an observation station there...
...There is no depression in the celluloid collar business. At least that was the opinion uttered last week by H. F. Gilmour, head of Stake Manufacturing Co. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the three U. S. concerns in the business. Reason for his cheer: a 250-doz. order from Africa...
Willa Cather's two grandmothers, to whom she read aloud from English classics, and a storekeeping uncle who, an Oxford graduate, taught her Latin, were important aids to her education. Her first writing was for the Lincoln State Journal. After she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather went to Pittsburgh, became dramatic critic on the Leader. Then she tried teaching English at the Allegheny High School, wrote verse in off-hours, published a book of it (April Twilights) in 1903. Famed Editor Samuel Sidney McClure, to whom she sent her first stories, published them, gave...
Next national meeting of the Rockefeller Family Association: at Hotel Lincoln, Manhattan...