Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rowing three-quarters of a mile down-stream into a slight headwind, Howard Cushing stroked his eight-oared crew to the championship in the varsity's annual "Hollow Log Regatta." Bliss', Lincoln's and Walcott's boats followed...
...Other Presidents have shown widely varying recreational' tastes. Lincoln, Wilson and Truman were walkers. Coolidge pitched hay, golfed and rode a mechanical horse that became something of a national joke. Hoover fished and tossed medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which...
...booming colony of the Gold Coast. Last week, as Prime Minister of what soon may become the first black dominion in the British Commonwealth. Nkrumah came face to face with a starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving the impression that a Communist movement in the Gold Coast would jeopardize the colony's demand...
...tests cover everything from trape-zoids to Tom Paine, from spelling (acqui-esence, acquiescence, aquiescence, acqui-esance) to literature ("What Joseph Lincoln did for Cape Cod, Sarah Orne Jewett did for 1) Florida, 2) Maine, 3) Oregon, 4) Michigan"). But just knowing the usual subjects is far from enough. To test their intelligence, the Point also presents candidates with a whole new bogus language that changes from year to year...
...Time. But for Bob Young's ministers and their wives the psychiatric sessions have opened new vistas. "For 2½ years," says the .Rev. James L. Ray, 29, of the First Methodist Church in Auburn, Neb. (pop. 3,422), "I worked with a church youth group, in Lincoln, and I never had one young person come in for personal counsel. Then one night I talked about what I've been learning these last two years-dynamic psychiatry. The next week seven young people came in for personal talks, and they've been coming ever since...