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Word: lincoln (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Did You Say 5 Cents? Yes, 5 Cents; And No Salt Bribes | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dr. Butler and the Rabbits | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: It Seems to Will White | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Stars Renamed | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telephone Supplement | 3/3/1943 | See Source »

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