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.
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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.
Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union; Vol. IV: The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War, 1859–1861 (1950).
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.
Civil War scholar Allan Nevins argues that 1862 was the strategic high-water mark of the Confederacy.
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.
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.