Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter, in order to take part in big-time tournaments, she had to ask for reinstatement with the National Ski Association. She has to compete with male snowbirds because there are no ski-jumping tournaments for women. Last week, getting a day off from the factory because it was Lincoln's Birthday, Dorothy entered New York's Palisades Tournament. Bucking a biting northwester and 17 male experts, including the Eastern and New York State Champions, she finished in a tie for first place in the Class B event. Her jumps measured 122 ft., 118 ft. Highflying Torger Tokle...
...shabby Kentucky cabin with a floor of packed-down dirt, a door swung on leather hinges and a stick-clay chimney, a boy was born with the help of an old midwife named Peggy Walters. The boy was Abraham Lincoln, who devoted his life, against terrible odds, to justice, humanity and freedom...
Putting into practice the information it gleaned from its radio survey, the Radio Committee of American Defense, Harvard Group will present, in celebration of Lincoln's birthday, a radio play on his life over WMEX tonight from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. Music for the program will be furnished by twelve members of the Glee Club...
Because of the departure to Washington of Instructor Lincoln Gordon. Government 29, Government Regulationof Industry, will be given by Professor Willian Yandell Elliott and Thomas Reed Powell, Story Professor of Law, an outstanding authority on and interpreter of constitutional...
Rural Connecticut has been Republican since Lincoln's day, especially in hilly Litchfield County. The Fifth Connecticut District, of which Litchfield County is the biggest part, sent a Republican to Washington even in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. But he won by only 78 votes. Factory workers who poured into Waterbury (pop. 99,314) might show an unmistakable preference for the Democrats; city folk from Manhattan-advertising men, editors, surrealist painters, proletarian novelists, foreign correspondents, returned expatriates-might turn the old Republican farms into weekend places. The farmers and their small-town allies-the lawyers, hardware dealers, bankers-scrutinized...