Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penny, Lincoln or Indian, with salt or without, is only one-fifth of a nickel, no matter who your section man was in Ec A. And when unscrupulous people inject a penny into an unsuspecting pay phone, with salt or without (although the salt, experts will tell you, is indispensable) that means the stockholders, about a million of them in this case, are out $.04, or a net loss of return on investment of 80%. And you can't run a business with that kind of a loss, whether you've been retooled by the Busy School...
...Public Education Association of New York straightway stood aghast. Cried they: "We stand aghast!" And would the good Doctor pray explain, if that was the way he felt about progressive education, why Columbia maintained its progressive Bard College and Horace Mann-Lincoln School of Teachers College...
That night, Will White sat with 800 others in the new Statler Hotel as Franklin Roosevelt made his Lincoln's Birthday speech. Will White found a different man: "In the five hours he had grown tired. As his speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...
...British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...
...Winthrop J-32 KIR 8773 Lazarus, I. J. '45, Adams H-31 KIR 1945 Leonard, E. '46, Lowell F-31 KIR 3985 Levin, D. K. '44. Dunster B-12 KIR 2208 Levinger, E. L. '45, Dunster K-32 ELI 2373 Levy, D. R. '46, Kirkland J-31 KIR 8589 Lincoln, W. E. Jr. '46, Winthrop G-23 TRO 6667 Lukens, D. '46, Winthrop 1-11 KIR 9493 M McEllwain, D. N. '46, Winthrop I-11 KIR 9493 McIntyre, H. P. '46, Kirkland B-32 KIR 7190 Main, W. A. '43, Leverett D-42 KIR 6116 Marias, S. '46, Lowell...