Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went off to Lincoln University, near Chester, Pa., an institution then with an all-Negro student body and an all-white faculty. The important event of his undergraduate years occurred at the Cherry street Memorial Church in Philadelphia...
...thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes of wrath are stored. When he is not busy explaining that Christ and Tom Paine felt just .as he does, he repeats this phrase from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it obviously makes him feel like Abraham Lincoln...
...Lincolns are longer, lower and wider than the 1955 models, bear a family resemblance to this year's Mercury Montclair. The engine is the most powerful Lincoln has ever built, and one of the most powerful ever put in a U.S. family car (285 h.p. v. 225 in the 1955 Lincoln, 270 in the Cadillac Eldorado. 275 in the Packard Caribbean, and 300 in Chrysler's limited production "300"). Both Premiere and Capri have automatic transmission and power steering as standard equipment; the Premiere adds power window controls and a device that moves the driver's seat...
...Lincoln points with particular pride to the cars' safety features. The "deep-dish" steering wheel and its spokes-all flexible -are shaped like a bowl, with the end of the steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...
...Lincoln is well aware that it will take many years to catch up with the Cadillac. Some 74,000 Cadillacs were registered in the first half of 1955 v. only 16,000 Lincolns. But Ford is ready to roll. Says Ben D. Mills, Ford vice president and Lincoln's general manager: "We don't intend to be in second place...