Morison

American  

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

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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Morison was a professor of history at Harvard and an officer in the U.S.

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Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”

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Madariaga’s response was exquisitely catty, describing Morison’s biography of Columbus as “a most interesting Life from the yachtsman’s point of view.”

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This was unkind, for Morison’s is a magnificent example of history as it is no longer written.

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