Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debt and long riddled with cancer, moved one day in June 1885 into a small woodland cottage at Mt. McGregor, N.Y. Many a biographer has recorded the last days of Ulysses S. Grant at that cottage, but few have known them as well as Hungarian-born Historian Stefan Lorant (Lincoln-A Picture Story of His Life-Harper; $6). Last week Lorant presented the source of his knowledge to West Point-a packet of manuscripts that he had bought from Grant's descendants. Among the manuscripts were nine tragic little notes, penciled by West Pointer Grant himself. Such notes were...
...colleges takes Bethlehem's famed "Loop Course" for administrative and technical training, his alma mater will get a gift of $3,000. That, said Bethlehem, is to help pay the college back for what it spends on giving a student four years of education. ¶Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., the first Negro institution in the world to award collegiate degrees, decided on a shift of policy. Since Negroes have gained admittance to so many white campuses recently, said President Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln (enrollment: 315) will reciprocate, open its doors to "all races." ¶Resignation of the week...
...Studebaker Commander, 24.50; Dodge V8, 23.41; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 23.39; Mercury Monterey, 23.15; Studebaker Land Cruiser (with automatic shift), 22.88; Plymouth Cranbrook, 22.83; Nash Ambassador, 22.54; Ford Mainline Eight, 22.51; Kaiser Manhattan, 22.27; Hudson Jet, 22.05; Kaiser Dragon, 21.45; Nash Ambassador Custom, 21.12; De Soto Firedome V8, 20.92; Lincoln Capri, 19.94; Nash Statesman, 19.44; Hudson Super Wasp, 19.09; Hudson Hornet, 18.95; Packard Clipper, 18.67; Chrysler New Yorker, 17.75; Chrysler Imperial...
Coach Ted Reynolds will send the same boats which opened last Saturday against Tabor and M.I.T. Captain Dick Lincoln will stroke, with Oliver Leland at seven and Bill Coughlin rowing six. Randy Seed will be in five seat, while Frank May-bank holds down number four spot. Bill Gray and Bill Lindemulder are in the three and two seats. Joe Brown rows bow and George Notter will...
...State Department recently refused to renew the visa of Reuel Mugo Gatheru of Kenya, East Africa, who is now a junior at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. The refusal may have been a result of pressure from the British government, Phillipe Villers '55, political-action chairman of the HLU said last night...