Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning found the Postmaster General breakfasting at the Executive Mansion at Springfield, Ill. He paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Griffin, toured the post office, lunched with and addressed the Mid-Day Club, made a speech at the Fair Grounds, visited Lincoln's home, placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, drove to New Salem, inspected all 13 of the reconstructed log cabins of the town of which Lincoln was postmaster. That night in Springfield he dined with practically every important Democrat in Illinois...
...Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S. marbles championship, with 200,000 entrants: at Ocean City...
...language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold copies and all rights, of his dictionary, settled down to being a one-book publisher. It brought out the 400,000-entry New International, tenth complete revision of Noah Webster, in 1909, coasted along with that for 15 years. But only a dead language stands still...
...from awarding honorary degrees which would have done them great credit and which as the years have passed would now be looked back upon with universal satisfaction, but the opportunity for which is gone because men of courage and vision have died before they received the recognition they deserved. --Springfield Republican...
Edward T. Clapp 3Dv., of Springfield, won the Francis Boott Prize in Music of $100 for the best composition in concerted vocal music...