Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile-long island, 28 miles north of Germany. In 1890, when Britain traded it to the Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...
...Preston released the names of seven new candidates, added as a result of supplementary selections by the nominating committee and petitions from the student body. John N. Dakis '48, John Munroe, Jr. '46, and Geoffrey W. White '48 were included on the Senior slate. New Junior nominees are J. Morton Dunn '48, Thomas J. Hyde '49, John K. Lally '49, and Gunther K. Rosinus...
Charles W. Morton, a leisurely, pipe-smoking associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was tired of such newspaper shock-talk...
Actually, wrote Morton (in the April Atlantic Monthly Bulletin, a chatty paper he sends to 4,000 editors, contributors and Atlantic friends), "the police, who have been sitting around in a state of indifference to overtime parking, burglaries, reefer peddlers, have finally been obliged to carry on a little simulation of activity . . . [and] such a description of Congressional procedures is almost a case for the postal authorities. As for Mayor Himmelfarber, he has never moved swiftly since crossing the 250-pound mark and to do so would lay him up with a thrombosis in short order...
...Morton's advice to newspaper rewrite-men: "Just keep an eye peeled for the word, boys, and be sure you really want to have it that...