Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gathered by Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; also by Lincoln Kirstein, the museum's consultant on Latin American art, who wrote the above comment on Figari. He is now in the Engineers Replacement Training Center, Fort Belvoir...
...busy weekend is in store for the Stahlmen. After the Red Sox get through with them today, they will take on the Lincoln Mohawks, a semi-pro outfit, tomorrow afternoon at Soldiers Field. Joe Phelan, Jack Farley, or Bud Mains will be on the mound...
...White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities will gather, the speeches will be read...
Groaned the Times: "1,705 of the 7,000 students, or 25%, did not know that Abraham Lincoln was President . . . during the Civil War. . . . Many students attending Southern colleges thought that Jefferson Davis had been President of the United States . . . 2,077 students, or 30%, did not know that Woodrow Wilson was President . . . during the last World...
Other wrong or wiseacre answers: the Bill of Rights gives "white people in the South the right to lynch Negroes." An assassinated President was "Lincoln, and it was a good thing, too." Dead labor leaders were said to include "John L. Green," "William Lewis." Other students were considered wrong for referring to Samuel Gompers as Grumpers, Gomphers, Goobles...