Word info

Nevins

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida.

An unincorporated community in Edgar County, Illinois.

A township in Vigo County, Indiana.

An unincorporated community in Sherwood, Clark County, Wisconsin, named after Sylvester Nevins.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War (1950), p. 312 notes that if the opposition had formed fusion tickets in every state, Lincoln still would have 169 electoral votes; he needed 152 to win the Electoral College. Source: Internet

Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union; Vol. IV: The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War, 1859–1861 (1950). Source: Internet

Brodsky, 141–142; Nevins, 228–229 Tens of thousands of settlers gathered at the border of these lands and prepared to take possession of them. Source: Internet

Civil War scholar Allan Nevins argues that 1862 was the strategic high-water mark of the Confederacy. Source: Internet

Ford, My Life and Work, 22–24; Nevins and Hill, Ford TMC, 58. At twenty, Ford walked four miles to their Episcopal church every Sunday. Source: Internet

Graff, 102–105; Nevins, 465–467 At first he refrained from criticizing his successor, but by 1891 Cleveland felt compelled to speak out, addressing his concerns in an open letter to a meeting of reformers in New York. Source: Internet

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