Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Lincoln, Neb., Arlene Gibson went to jail after making the mistake of wearing stolen jewelry to a policeman's ball...
...Washington, the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln broods over the capital of the U.S., where Jim Crow is the rule, where Negroes are barred from downtown hotels and restaurants, segregated at movies and barred from the city's only legitimate theater. Washington's customs are only a shade less Southern than the South...
John Murray Forbes of Boston made a fortune in China before he was 24. Back home again, he built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, acted as a Lincoln secret agent in the Civil War, and in 1885 opened a school near Boston. He called it Milton Academy, after the town, and after a school that had once flourished there. Last week Milton gave a dignified party to celebrate its "150th" anniversary...
...cherish her gift of gab."What's a Capulet?" Felton asked her recently. "Someone with a small size cap," was Sadie's assured reply. Felton: "What great events occurred between 1860 and 1870?" Sadie: "Terrible things. They had a centennial. Things was terrible. McKinley, Buchanan and Lincoln all was killed. It was a terrible centennial...
...Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduates in the Classics was presented to Francis J. Di Mento '48 of Brighton for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Lard Charnwood's "Abraham Lincoln...