Word: lincoln
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From 40 Filing Cases. In Roosevelt and Hopkins, Playwright Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) has written the best book on World War II by an American. The title belies the vast scope of Sherwood's effort. This is not only the story of Hopkins in the role of personal chief of staff and messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced...
...Abraham Lincoln, it was unanimously agreed, was the greatest President in the nation's history. After him came Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson...
...Malthusians are not the only ones who have been wildly wrong about population growth. Abraham Lincoln, assuming that U.S. population would continue to grow as fast as it did in his day, predicted that the U.S. would have 250 million people by 1930. According to his forecasts, the 1948 population would be 430 million instead of 140 million...
...years old. Rummaging through Jack and Jill's letters column (it draws 18,000 letters a year), the Post collected a piece on "Kids Believe the Darnedest Things." Some of the things they believe: that bird dogs fly, that "juvenile" means bad and "delinquent" means children, that Lincoln's address was Gettysburg, that when it rains it rains all over, and that radios are inhabited by entertaining little people who ought to be applauded and occasionally fed-right through the speaker...
...undergraduate House except Dunster, as well as the Yard and the Law School quadrangle. It is bounded on the South by Memorial Drive, on the North by Jarvis st., with Boylston st. and Massachusetts ave. forming one side and Warren at. the other. The voting booths are in the Lincoln sq. fire station (next to Memorial Hall...