Word: lincolnisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cars & Paper. Mr. Truman's own party colleagues did a little better. Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, a man who some day hopes to hear a Lincoln-head penny holler Uncle, wanted to fry off $9.1 billion-$200 million from the Veterans Administration, $500 million out of the Defense budget, $3.5 billion out of the $7.5 billion foreign-aid program and $4.9 billion out of the domestic-civilian sectors of the Truman budget...
...every chance in the annals of heroism, claiming half the enemy fleet destroyed; the other half is taken care of by a submarine commander, C. Dexter Collins of Chestnut Hill. Among the sub crew are Levine from Brooklyn, Gambaroni from the other side of the tracks, and George Washington Lincoln from Georgia...
...traditional G.O.P. Lincoln's Day dinners, House Minority Leader Joseph Martin once again plugger for a favorite cause of the Republican Old Guard--more military aid for Chiang Kai-shek. Martin argued that Chiang would open a second front on the Chinese mainland if the United States supplied him with planes, tanks, trucks, ships, and ammunition. This country should have learned by now that arms and reaction can't win the loyalty of the Chinese people. Beyond this, it is also a stupid business to force a ruler upon a country whose people have already rejected...
...varsity 'B' team regained the 'B' League lead yesterday by defeating the Lincoln's Inn Society, 4 to 1, at Hemenway Gym. The freshman 'D' squad also won, defeating Middlesex, 4 to 1, on the losers' courts...
...varsity 'B' squash team goes after the League lead today as it opposes the Lincoln's Inn Society at Hemenway...