Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went back to St. Paul's as a teacher-an angular, inarticulate man who reminded his students of Lincoln. But when World War I began he crammed his air training into three days, served in France as a combat aviator. He was to be a squadron commander, came home unscathed-although he had crashed seven times-and settled down in Concord to begin a political career...
...impinges on Whitman's personal development. In his eagerness to recreate the fragrance and colors of the past, Brooks impatiently skips those struggles of the mind and body that comprised its substance. There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln's world-shaking ideas; more about Joaquin Miller's escapades than Melville's struggles with the ultimates of morality...
...country had no paper currency.* That was the heritage of bankruptcy and economic dependence on the U.S. Now the Dominican Republic is strong, its external debt paid off (since July), its internal debt minuscule. Last week, Dominican banks started taking in time-worn green-inked engravings of Washington and Lincoln, replacing them with crisp Dominican peso notes bearing the likeness of local heroes...
...teachers' turn to be tested. In Denver, the Rocky Mountain News asked about 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers such questions as who killed Lincoln? What was the Monroe Doctrine? The teachers' average grade: 67 (below passing). Some believed that Aaron Burr assassinated Lincoln, that George Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that the Civil War lasted ten years. Toughest question: Who married Pocahontas? Most teachers said John Smith. Correct answer: John Rolfe...
...George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals Bridges, the Outerbridge Crossing, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. The Authority also runs Brooklyn's Gowanus Grain Terminal, built the 14-story Port Authority Building that houses the Union Inland Railroad Freight Station for less-than-carload lots...