Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat should have: he was wealthy, studious, shrewd, affable, full of both principle and humor. Colleagues in the State Department regarded him with awe. One of them once said: "You can't compare Armour to anyone else in the service; he's one of a species, like Lincoln...
...Cleveland's high schools, about one in ten of the teachers were laid low by flu. In at least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school...
Stella and her fellow substitutes at Lincoln are members of the Future Teachers of America, who try to get their hands in by teaching at least one class every two weeks. They rarely get such a chance as Cleveland's flu gave them. Said Lincoln's principal: "Best relief pitchers ever sent to the mound...
...opposing counsel argued the constitutionality of eviction injunctions based on private agreements. When he had heard both sides out and considered the overtones, tall, well-groomed Judge Clarke decided to visit the disputed ground-popularly known as "Sugar Hill." As he rose to leave, spectators noticed a portrait of Lincoln hanging behind the bench. Breathed one burly Negro: "I hope that judge has eyes in the back of his head...
...Charactcr. His Work, Alfred Einstein; Black Boy, Richard Wright; The Young Jefferson, Claude G. Bowers; The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly; Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal, Thomas A. Bailey; The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Saints and Strangers, George F. Willison; One Who Survived, Alexander Barmine; Lincoln, the President, J. G. Randall...