Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami, all vying to be the 1960 convention city. For the 14th time in the party's history, they chose Chicago (beginning July 25) because: 1) 1960 is the. 100th anniversary of the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln, 2) Chicago's central location, hotel facilities and guaranty ($400,000) were better than any other offer...
...principle, handball dates from the first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly...
Henry R. Shepley, in conjunction with Belluschi, helped plan New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which contains the new Metropolitan Opera House and the New York Philharmonic concert hall...
Detailed studies of opera houses throughout the world, prepared to aid in the design of Lincoln Center, have been made available to MeBAC by the Metropolitan Opera Association of New York, to help in the planning of the local opera house...
...Russians were quick to register an official protest. Claiming a "prescriptive right" to heights over 10,000 ft., they first warned darkly that "there may be incidents if the Americans fly above the altitude again without negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White replied that the U.S. "has never accepted any altitude ceiling" in the air corridors. Next day the Russian "warning" was backed down to a simple statement that air collisions with Russian planes might result, added: "But that does not mean that any American aircraft would be molested or attacked." Finally Moscow got around to a diplomatic...