Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholastic standards, for in 1893 a rule was passed requiring a college degree for admission in all but the most exceptional cases. At the time this was an unprecedented action, and it brought down upon the University the cry of snobbishness and the charge that "Langdell would turn down Lincoln if he applied for admission...
...Manhattan, General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a homey tribute. Veteran Broadway Producer Brock Pemberton, who went to work for the National Draft Eisenhower League, explained: "He works on me like Lincoln...
Deputy Chief Caldwell of the Lincoln Square Fire Station opposite Memorial Hall declared that it was illegal to lock the doors of lecture rooms unless the exits are equipped with panic-bars...
Crazy Horse, mounted on a wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
...Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...