Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fruit Flies. Beadle entered college in 1922. At the time, genetics was still a small, specialized field, but it was growing in both importance and intellectual vogue. Its great man was Professor Thomas Hunt Morgan of Columbia University, founder of the "fly school'' of genetics. He worked with Drosophila melanogaster, the small fly that congregates around fruit stands and garbage pails. As living instruments of genetics they were a happy choice. They are only 1/12 in. long, so their board bill is low. They produce new generations in about two weeks, multiplying rapidly in cream bottles stoppered with...
...letters a day, wear T shirts emblazoned with the .face of Mad's grinning imp Alfred E. ("What-me worry?") Neuman, and treasure old issues like collector's items. Maddiction also has become a cult in some adult circles. Comics Ernie Kevacs, Bob and Ray, Henry Morgan and Orson Bean contribute frequently and willingly for next to nothing...
...Pierpont Morgan the elder made the purchase of a yellow pine box in 1909. Legend had it that the box was carpentered by Henry David Thoreau in his dying year (1862). Loosely fitted in this wooden frame were 38 manuscript notebooks in which the author of Walden had kept his monumental (nearly two million words) Journal, written in the course of 24 years. The box also offered a mystery. It concerned a missing notebook dating from Thoreau's 23rd year (1840), in which the strongest love interest of the Concord bachelor's life was supposedly blighted. Discovered some...
...Good Question. In 1956 Adams got White House Counsel Morgan to ask why Goldfine's real estate company, the East Boston Co., was under investigation by the Securities & Exchange Commission. The reply from SEC: for noncompliance with SEC regulations on publishing financial reports. Had Adams passed this along to Goldfine? asked Counsel Lishman. Adams' answer: not to his recollection...
...Hollywood thriller-it is based on a mystery novel by James Hadley Chase-but Director Denys de la Patellière has prepared it to the king's taste. He tells the story of a wealthy drunk (Peter Van Eyck) who one day informs the greedy salope (Michele Morgan) to whom he is married that he is going to commit suicide in a few minutes. But if he does that, she realizes instantly, she will not be able to collect the 300 million francs for which his life is insured. "You will have only a few hours," he adds...