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Word: abraham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that the FBI had illegally tapped telephones and intercepted mail to get its evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tainted Source | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...that seemed undone was for Dwight Eisenhower to confide, as Abraham Lincoln confided to a friend in the spring of 1860: "I will be entirely frank. The taste is in my mouth a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Tell Me, Zebra | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Roses to you for your article on Robert Hutchins. Those unfortunate undergraduates of today who are inextricably caught in the regimented and intellectually stifling institutionalization of our "modern" higher education system look to Hutchins as an Abraham Lincoln, a Thomas Paine and a Wendell Willkie all rolled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Christmas play season gets underway this evening when Adams House presents "The Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan at 7:30 p.m. and Dunster House stages "Cutter of Coleman-Street," a Restoration comedy by Abraham Cowley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Dunster Plays Open Season Tonight | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...Where in 1860 Presidential Aspirant Abraham Lincoln delivered the speech (on slavery) which is credited with having cinched the Republican nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free of Charge | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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