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Word: lincolnisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duff, who recently broke the Republican party "machine" in Pennsylvania to become a promising new member of the Senate, was in town for the Middlesex Club's annual Lincoln Day dinner at the Hotel Statler last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duff Declines to Run For President in '52 | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

...Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Abe Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Video Theater (Mon' 8 p.m., CBS). Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Raymond Massey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Asked to bring along his guitar when he makes a Lincoln's Birthday broadcast, Poet Carl Sandburg said: "I haven't been able to give it the time that I'd like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The American Way | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Shrewd, eager and personable, he was enough of a success by 1912 to be elected Kimberley's mayor at 32 (he was twice reelected, later went to Parliament). In 1917 he teamed up with an American engineer, William Lincoln Honnold, and, with backing from J. P. Morgan and others, formed Anglo American. While everybody else swarmed to the Central Rand, Oppenheimer tried his luck in the Far East Rand and struck it rich, did it again 100 miles away where nobody thought there was any gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD & DIAMONDS: Passing the Scepter | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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