Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hapeville, Ga., Jolly white-haired Mrs. C. F. Morgan, who once dreamed that her husband's finger would be cut off (it was), announced her fourth vision of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred J. Noonan, lost in the Pacific since July 2, 1937. Mrs. Morgan's dreams: Earhart and Noonan are alive on a densely thicketed four-acre island; her hair "has grown long and waves in the breeze"; she cooks over a clay pot supported by part of her plane's framework, invariably asks Mrs. Morgan "to come closer and I'll explain...
Drosophila melanogaster is the fancy name for the common fruit fly (or vinegar fly), and Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology is the man who made Drosophila famous. For several decades Dr. Morgan, a Nobel Prizewinner, and his numerous co-workers charted the locations of genes on the fruit fly's chromosomes...
That oath, sworn in a memorv of sac rifice and bloodshed, gradually soured into a disgusted resolve. The Allies didn't pay their war debts, Uncle Sam became Uncle Shylock, the country heard that the holy crusade had been waged to make good J. P. Morgan's loans, that Our Buddies were the pawns of the munitions-makers, that the Road to War was paved with baloney; the blood had been shed not by heroes, but by suckers...
...ushers. Assisting Harte as ushers will be James M. Aldrich, Jr., William O. Apthorp, Charles M. Clark, Thomas P. Cutler, James C. Dudley, Roger D. Fisher, Thomas R. Goethals, Jr., Morris Gray, Thomas Hadley, Jr., George H. Hackett, Michael Harrington, Jr., Maxwell Kaufer, Caleb Loring, Jr., John W. Morgan, Charles S. Putnam, Julian H. Richardson, Peter B. Saltonstall, Roger Smith, George H. Warren, and Richard K. Winslow...
Married. Nancy Whitney, 23, daughter of the former president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney; and Socialite Henry Averell Gerry, 26; in Manhattan. The bride was given away by her uncle, Morgan Partner George Whitney...