Word: amplest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...