Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-Price Class. Chrysler Imperial Crown, 20.5821; Lincoln Continental, 18.0737; Lincoln Continental, 17.9628; Buick Roadmaster...
Professor Copeland, "Copey," was witty and knew it. Harvard anecdotes about him, like Lincoln stories, are legion and legendary. But the reason for the stories, both true and apocryphal, is that they perpetuate the personality of a truly unique teacher who left no other significant relics. As an English instructor, and later as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, he taught two famous courses; an advanced writing course and a course titled "Johnson and his Circle." He wrote only one book, compiled two anthologies, and allowed a short moving picture to be filmed of himself reading aloud...
...when TV cameras caught him from the corridor while the trial was actually in session. Nor did Judge English complain when TV and World-Herald cameramen whirled and clicked while the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. But 60 miles away in Lincoln, State Attorney General Clarence S. Beck watched a TV film of the scene and exploded ("There was the clerk of the court reading the verdict-live with sound, yet"). Last week Attorney General Beck charged before the Nebraska Supreme Court that
...championship. ¶ Winter-book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
...only provided transportation for the middle class but was a firm steppingstone on the stratified pyramid of personal material progress. From a Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth, the buyer progressed to a Pontiac, Buick, De Soto or Oldsmobile, all the while hoping for, and perhaps eventually achieving, a Chrysler, Lincoln or Cadillac...