Word: lincoln
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...plant replicas were the brainchild of George Lincoln Goddell, the museum's first director, who in 1886 began seeking perfect botanical replicas for a natural history exhibit. The quest ultimately led him to a pair of craftsmen in Dresden, Germany...
...There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook that sold thousands. A grand and intelligent book...
...with representatives of a Philippine construction company with connections to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. After being whisked through customs, Gwynne found a red Jaguar and a pretty 20-year-old woman at his disposal. "The girl was unexpected," he wrote. "Bangkok Bank gave me a silver Lincoln but no girl." After returning home, Gwynne, at the urging of his superiors, arranged for his bank to give a $10 million loan to the Philippine company, which later failed to meet its payments...
Because opinion polls show public support for gun control laws in Massachusetts, the Coalition is aiming at eastern Massachusetts--liberal communities such as Brookline. Lincoln, and Acton. Boston and Cambridge city council resolutions calling for gun restrictions have encouraged the activists. Focusing on communities may address the differences in the needs and politics of, for example, a rural homeowner in New Mexico and an executive in a picture-window office of a Boston skyscraper--differences that have impeded national strategies. Public opinion and reaction can be predicted more easily in small communities; so perhaps the Coalition will be able...
...points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned antisuffragist who easily alternated between exposés of the Beef Trust and fawning profiles of historical heroes (Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln) and even corporate chieftains (U.S. Steel's Elbert Gary, General Electric's Owen Young). With Tarbell-like thoroughness, Brady describes a defiantly single woman wasting her talent on hasty magazine articles and much of her life in platonic friendships with adoring male colleagues. Until her death...