Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands' speed-loving Prince Bernhard hurtled along a Dutch road in his royal Lincoln. Bernhard's chauffeur sat at his side, idly watching the kilometers flit past. While trying to pass a road-hogging truck, the prince zigged when he should have zagged, wound up with the car doing a neat half rollover, followed by a ground-chewing landing on its side. The unperturbed chauffeur ceremoniously opened the door for unhurt Bernhard, who climbed out, hitchhiked to a gas station, phoned the royal garage for a fresh...
...could have been done in no other way. Detroit, having spent 20 years meeting the public's demand for soggy sponge springing, mush-o-matic drive and steering, and cumbersome chrome bathtub exteriors, is disinclined to risk the reputations of its unwieldy boulevard barges in competition (cheers to Lincoln and similar exceptions...
...Newsman and Nation Editor Bruce Catton for a Stillness at Appomattox, the third volume in his history of the Army of the Potomac (first two: Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road...
Ethel Andrus' fame really began after her retirement. A sprightly, auburn-haired Ph.D. (University of Southern California), she began teaching in 1911, for 28 years served as principal of the Lincoln High School in Los Angeles. But in spite of all that time in service, her retirement pay in 1944 turned out to be a meager $60 a month. Though she had some money of her own, Ethel Andrus began to wonder how the rest of the nation's 140,000 retired teachers were able to make...
Last week Lincoln was embarking on a $4,000,000 fund-raising program. Ultimate goal: 1,000 students. But more and more Lincoln hopes that its students will be both white and foreign. After 100 years the university has come to the conclusion that the "Negro school" is obsolete. "The need today," says President Bond, "is far greater. It is worldwide understanding based on the concept of brotherhood. Nowhere is there a university designed and equipped [so well] to make this ambitious aim a reality...