1920
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
Four score and seven years ago
"Four score and seven years" which indicates 87 years (4x20 +7), the time between the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) and the Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863).87a score is 20 years, so 4 score is 80 years plus 7.
"Four score" refers to a period of 80 years, as "a score" is equal to 20 years. Therefore, four score equals 4 times 20, which is 80. This phrase is famously used in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, where he begins with "Four score and seven years ago," referring to 87 years prior.
Four score and seven years
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
One score is 20 years so four score (80) and seven years ago would be 87 years.
a score, as in "Four score and seven years..."
A score is equal to twenty. "Four score and seven years" is eighty-seven years.
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
20
A "score" is twenty, so four score and seven = 87.
A score is twenty years. So four score and seven is (4 X 20) + 7 years or 87 years. However, the usual quote is three score and ten years (70 years) which represented the life expectancy in those days.
87. A score is 20yrs.
Four score and seven years ago
Four score and seven=87 87 years prior to the Gettysburg address, was the American Revolution.
26...a score = twenty (as in "...four score & seven years ago..." means 87 years)