Word: jonathans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops swung in review, the dust rose over the parade ground at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The man who took the salute, a lame, lanky, partially deaf General with a strained look about the eyes, was reviewing his last parade as an active officer. He was Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, veteran of 45 years of Army service, and the symbol of both U.S. unpreparedness and victory in the Pacific...
Utopians as grave as Sir Thomas More, satirists as great as Jonathan Swift dealt with imaginary men and inventions. Samuel Butler (Erewhon), William Dean Howells (A Traveler from Altruria), H. G. Wells (The Empire of the Ants) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) also mixed science and moonshine for purposes of their...
...news of it was announced on Monday, TIME'S press day. In the next issue, Jonathan Norton Leonard was advised by his managing editor, a special Atomic Age section (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945) would try to tell the significance of the atomic bomb and Science's share of it would be to explain "how it works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved...
...inclination and training Leonard is amply equipped to be TIME'S Science editor. Until he went to Harvard, where he studied three years with the intention of becoming a chemist and then switched to English literature, he had been educated irregularly, mostly by his father, Jonathan Leonard, who taught English literature at Harvard and the University of North Carolina and tried unsuccessfully to bring young Leonard up speaking classical Greek as well as English...
...married (to a daughter of the late Isaac Alzamora, onetime vice president and foreign minister of Peru) and the father of a young son named Jonathan, Leonard is the owner of a growing stack of trophies. His prize, a packet of lead-wrapped fragments of fused soil from the crater of the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico, reposes in a Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing...