Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trainside crowds. By the time he reached Galesburg, Ill., which had not been visited by a President since William McKinley stopped there in 1899, the President was drawing crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition to the Administration's Brannan Plan, said the President, was "the same kind of mudslinging, name-calling opposition that you hear every time we bring...
John Eills has taken over the stroke oar from Pete Bullard, Bob Bourne replaces Dick Lincoln at seven, and John Churchill is in the bow seat in place of Bill Glenn. The rest of the boat in the same as last week. The Tiger freshmen also defeated Penn last week...
Another weak spot for Olson's team is the weights. Unlike the case of the varsity, the freshman weight-throwers have contributed little to the team scoring. Yale's Sam Mulligan won the javelin event at Princeton with a toss of over 174 feet. At Dartmouth, Harvard's Lincoln Ferris won under...
...hunt ended one cold evening in The Bronx. She walked up to the second floor of the city's big, red brick Lincoln Hospital, and let herself into the incubator room. There was no nurse in sight. She opened an incubator's glass cover, lifted out a tiny, naked Negro baby, and slipped it under her coat. She was back out on the dark streets long before a horrified nurse discovered the loss...
...called Fair Deal, and since your leader, Senator Humphrey, has supported it on every issue except interstate transportation of oleomargarine, we feel that it is your duty to support the Democratic line in a joint forum, just as another Democrat, Stephen Douglas, defended slavery in debates with Abraham Lincoln...