Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detur Prize books for excellence in studies to Bruce H. Allen '46, Herbert S. Allen, Jr. '45, Edward B. Burke '46, Bille C. Carlson '45, Lincoln D. Clark '46, Fred N. Fishman '46, Norman Geschwind '46, Edward S. Goldman '46, Robert A. Green '46, Wayland C. Griffith '46, Leopold H. Haimson...
...raised on the Tribune. My first paddling was with a rolled-up Tribune. On picnics in Lincoln Park it was our tablecloth...
...Project of the late WPA to direct the collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...
Civilian officials had already destroyed one last sign of U.S. sovereignty in the Philippines. They had burned the U.S. currency which had been transported from Manila banks. Washington, Lincoln, Grant, the Great Seal, the signature of Henry Morgenthau Jr., all had gone up in smoke. Now the last sign of sovereignty was to go. There was nothing more for men to hold...
...During the Civil War, the Government (without a Sedition law) suppressed newspapers, jailed editors, shushed those who said Mr. Lincoln was "violating" the Constitution, gagged speakers...