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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Eliot Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, was a lone dissenting voice. "Twenty fathoms is too deep for normal diving operations," he told the CRIMSON last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drive Starts to Raise U.S.S. Monitor | 4/14/1951 | See Source »

Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, yesterday accepted full responsibility for so-called anti-Negro sentiments in his book, the second volume of "The Growth of the American Republic." But he branded charges that the book is anti-Negro as "frivolous," and plans no changes in the text, which has been on the market for over 20 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Takes Blame For So-Called Slurring of Negroes in Volume | 3/20/1951 | See Source »

Some stories make large demands on the credulity of their audiences. Jonathan Swift, in the interest of satire, asks his readers to imagine little men six inches high. "The Company She Keeps," in the interest of glamour, asks the audience to imagine Lizabeth Scott as a female parole officer. It is just too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

...Antonio, General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright returned from a party to find that burglars had ransacked his house, dumped out desks and drawers, pried open the doors of a valuable gun collection, walked off with nothing more than two pairs of his white kid gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Have & Have Not | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Stephen Crane was born in Newark in 1871. He was the frail 14th child of a gentle Methodist pastor named Jonathan and an unyielding force of nature named Mary. "You could argue just as well with a wave," her favorite son once said. Baby Stephen's first intelligible query is supposed to have been: "Ma, how do you spell O?" He was obviously destined to be a writer. When he died of tuberculosis at 28, he had been that and other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in Search of a Hero | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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