Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior varsity hockey team faces Belmont High on the Watson Rink at 4 p.m. today, after a rugged scrimmage Wednesday with a highly-talented amateur sextet, the Lincoln Mohawks...
Died. Benjamin Platt Thomas, 54, Lincoln scholar, whose Abraham Lincoln (1952) was generally considered the best modern one-volume biography of the President; by his own hand (revolver) during a period of depression caused by throat cancer; in Springfield...
...Republican Party should fulfill its debts both to the huge number of Negro voters who supported it this year and to its heritage of Lincoln. Vice President Nixon, as the Senate's presiding officer, and Minority Leader Knowland are able to provide the leadership if the President will not. They can carry enough votes to swamp Majority Leader Johnson if they wish, and, with liberal Democratic support, end the filibuster...
Parents Are No Use. National holidays and heroes are a constant source of inspiration-"Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands." But so is resentment of a sibling...
...kept swinging to the end-and even afterward. Of his assassination, the Dallas Herald wrote: "God almighty ordered this event." Houston's Tri-Weekly Telegraph crowed: "From now until God's judgment day, the minds of men will not cease to thrill at the killing of Abraham Lincoln." But the press was not altogether blind to history. In 1864, during Lincoln's campaign for a second term, the Chicago Tribune stumped for him with prophetic words: "Half a century hence, to have lived in this age will be fame. To have served it well will be immortalitv...