Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research facilities as up-to-date as G.M.'s. In it, hundreds of scientists and engineers will not only seek ways to improve cars, but will work on pure research. ¶ A new Continental is tentatively scheduled for 1956 to try to recapture the prestige of the old Lincoln Continental, which many automobile buffs still consider the best-looking U.S. car ever made. ¶A new hard-top convertible, the Syrtis, is also scheduled for '56. Its metal top slides into the luggage compartment...
...varsity, Captain Dick Lincoln will stroke, with Oliver Leland at seven, Randy Seed six, Mal Rohrbough five, and Bill Lindemulder at four. Bill Gray is three, Frank Maybank two, and Joe Brown how. George Notter will...
Crowds jammed Amman's King Feisal Avenue six deep last week. Watching from rooftops, veiled women set up the piercing wail of joy called Zaghareed. The object of the outcry, a smiling, slender lad in a slow-moving, blue 1953 Lincoln convertible surrounded by armored cars, replied again & again with precise Sandhurst salutes. The procession moved on to Jordan's Parliament building. There, dressed in the gilded blue uniform of an Arab Legion general, the lad rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution...
...figures, modest in themselves, are symptoms of a major revolution in the life of the U.S. Negro?only half-noticed by the rest of the nation. It is a revolution which, although still far from overthrowing segregation, amounts to the biggest, most hopeful change in Negro history since Abraham Lincoln, just 90 years ago, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Says Negro Publisher (Ebony, Jet) John H. Johnson: "Every Negro is a Horatio Alger . . . His trek up from slavery is the greatest success story the world has ever known...
...highly-rated Princeton varsity quickly moved to an early lead and never gave water from then on. Yale lagged a length behind most of the race, keeping its stroke at a high 36. From the start, the Crimson shell stroked by Captain Dick Lincoln dropped four lengths off the pace and was unable to catch up. It crossed the finish line six seconds later than Princeton, three behind Yale...