Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...
Even Philadelphia's Republican leaders agreed that their machine badly needed a new look. They were nervous about the vote-getting names the Democrats were assembling for this fall's mayoralty elections. And they knew that a change was long overdue in the city that Lincoln Steffens once (1903) described as "corrupt and contented...
...Robert F. Love . . . has bombastically suggested that we who do not want Mr. Truman for President for another term should chip in $1 and buy him a haberdashery store. . . I'll bet Mr. Love could have cracked some side-splitting jokes about Lincoln's background, had he been a pundit of that...
Haines intends to have Lincoln stroke a lower beat than he used in the junior varsity race last week. In that race Lincoln got his second boat off to a very fast start against Yale and Princeton, and held a two-length lead for most of the event, but the Crimson could not get up its stroke to withstand a finishing sprint by the Elis...
Along with Lincoln in the first boat will be--starting with the bow--Joe Brown, Sam Allen, Ted Barrett, Frank Benson, John Morgan, Ray Burns, and Lindy Watkins. Bill Chadwick will...