Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LINCOLN'S COMMANDO, by Ralph J. Roske and Charles Van Doren (3 1 0 pp.; Harper; $4.50), is notable as the work of Adult Quiz Kid Van Doren (TIME, Feb. 11, et seq.), a cerebral type who chose as his subject a man of flamboyant contrast. The man: Commander Will Cushing, U.S.N., whose raids up and down the Confederate-held coasts during the second half of the Civil War were the despair of Rebel defenders. Cushing was young and handsome, a braggart as well as an incredibly brave man. His superiors feared his escapades nearly as much...
...first freshman boat, Ron Raynolds is cox; Peter Stinton, bow; Tom Oleson, 2; Chris Bayley, 3; Lincoln Ford, 4; Roy Gosse, 5; Nick Carrera, 6; Mike Christian, 7; and Al Keller, stroke...
...occasion for the exhibit is the library's acquisition of a French book dealing with the divine rights of kings, which was bound for James I. The volume, donated by George L. Lincoln '96, a retired professor of Romance Languages, is the most recent addition to the University's 55-book collection of royal volumes, one of the largest outside the British Isles...
...February 1953 Independent Democrat Tucker was approached by a couple of friends with an unattractive proposition. They wanted him to give up his comfortable $20,000-a-year income and run for mayor-at $10,000 a year, plus the use of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln sedan. Said his wife Edythe: "Ray went through a change of life or something. He decided...
...Easy. In any era, the black-bearded Rhineland revolutionary and the squeaky-voiced Whig editor would have made improbable bedfellows. The Tribune, as Hale explains, was a "great New York family newspaper dedicated to the support of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, temperance, dietary reform, Going West and ultimately, Abraham Lincoln." Marx, arrogant, embittered, exiled from his native Germany, was dedicated to the overthrow of 19th century capitalism...