Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of World War II, The Marines' War (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948). Like a lot of self-made military experts, Author Pratt is perhaps happiest when he is refighting the War Between the States. In his new book, Stanton, he has a fine time trying to prove that Lincoln's War Secretary was a great & good man, has an even better time using his hero's biography as a battle arena where Pratt can preside as chief of tactics and strategy...
...killed his wife's lover on a Washington street, Stanton got him acquitted on grounds never before used in a U.S. trial-temporary insanity.-In another case, he brusquely superseded an older lawyer assigned to the case and made the closing argument himself. The older lawyer was Abe Lincoln, and after he heard Stanton, he said: "I'm going home to study-study...
...like "Kitty," "Copey," and Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs, of wrinkled but beloved visage. The succession of university Presidents appear too, with Jared Sparks in 1849 politely refusing a female applicant ("the time may come when female claims will be more justly valued"), or Thomas Hill, in 1862 warning Abraham Lincoln about the behavior of his son, or Eliot, Lowell and Conant striving eloquently to define the meaning of Harvard...
...engine; the Mercury will go from 125 h.p. to 150. Ford's major body change is a new front quarter panel which gives a higher fender line, a longer-looking silhouette. Mercury's rear panel is being lengthened to give a similar look of greater length. The Lincoln is little changed, but its easy-steering type of front-wheel suspension is being put into both the Mercury and Ford...
...much more than a stone's throw from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington is a barren, 11½-acre tract on the Potomac on which stand only two empty gas storage tanks. Last week a New York building syndicate announced that it plans to build there a $70 to $80 million Rockefeller Center-like development, with six office buildings, a shopping center, raised plaza and skating rink, 1,003-room hotel, 2,000-car underground garage and two apartment buildings...