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Morison

American  
[mawr-uh-suhn, mor-] / ˈmɔr ə sən, ˈmɒr- /

noun

  1. Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.


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Mr. Restall dismisses this delicious idea, as did Samuel Eliot Morison before him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Hodges and Morison performed an arrangement of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for two pianos and Pierre Boulez’s restless “Structures II” for their teachers and fellow students at Winchester, to bemused reactions.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

“It looks like Iron Curtain 2 has come down between us,” says James Morison, a UW oceanographer whose polar research began in the 1970s, during the Cold War.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 4, 2022

"Steve Morison and Tom Ramasut will oversee first-team duties at this time, as the board of directors begin the process of appointing a permanent replacement."

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2021

Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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