Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Washington left a fortune estimated at over $5 million, Lincoln only $110,000. Ulysses S. Grant struggled out of bankruptcy only by selling his memoirs, finished but a few days before his death. Roosevelt I's $810,706 estate formerly ranked second to Washington...
...fever, too. After graduating from Longfellow grade school and St. Mary's College (now the University of Dayton), he went to Cornell. But he spent less time on studies than driving around the countryside. (His taste in cars used to lean towards Rolls-Royces; now he owns a Lincoln.) When World War I came, he got his first taste of aviation as a naval aviator...
...last years of her determined, independent life, she rocked on the front porch of the old house, watching another generation grow up in the Lincoln Public school yard across the street...
...tennis team made out slightly more successfully, winning from Bowdoin 8-1, losing 7-5 to United Shoe, and mastering Lincoln...
...people of the North, from Abraham Lincoln down, knew him as Little Aleck, devoted champion of states' rights and the constitutional liberties of all men-except Negroes. To the South he was Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, Vice President and chief enigma of the Confederacy...