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Morton's and Josiah
Josiah C. Nott and George Gliddon carried Morton's ideas further.

Morton's and C
Another account, from Louis Morton's " The Fall of the Philippines ", place C and E companies on Mindanao where they staffed an infantry school and trained elements of the Philippine Army.
This, in fact, was an authentic model of John Morton's 300 bhp BRE-Datsun 240Z which won the 1970 and 1971 SCCA class C / P championships.

Morton's and .
Now, if Morton's newest product, a corn chip known as Chip-o's, turns out to sell as well as its stock did, the stock may turn out to be worth every cent of the prices that the avid buyers bid it up to.
Morton's other interest, France, was occasionally represented by epic tales of his rambling walks through the French countryside.
But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.
The Will Hay film Boys Will Be Boys ( 1935 ) was set at Morton's Narkover school.
In 1989, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first of three series based on Morton's work.
Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).
Due to their position and function, feet are exposed to a variety of potential infections and injuries, including athlete's foot, bunions, ingrown toenails, Morton's neuroma, plantar fasciitis, plantar warts and stress fractures.
Morton's Fork, a choice between two equally unpleasant options, is often a false dilemma.
Motley in 1839 wrote a novel, Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university in which he described Bismarck as a reckless and dashing eccentric, but also as an extremely gifted and charming young man.
Morton's refusal to give up his many business interests while as leader led many to accuse him of being a ' part-time leader ' and together with his second election loss, eroded confidence in his leadership.
On first down, linebacker Ted Hendricks deflected Morton's pass, and then running back Duane Thomas was tackled for a 1-yard loss on the next play.
The Cowboys got the ball back on their 40-yard line with a few seconds remaining after O ' Brien's ensuing squib kick, but Morton's pass to Garrison was intercepted by Logan at the Baltimore 29-yard line, and time expired.
He recounted how Lord Morton's mare apparently demonstrated telegony, offspring inheriting characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent, and accepted this process as increasing the variation available for natural selection.
Gould describes Morton's rather imprecise technique of filling skulls with bird seed to obtain endocranial-volume data and how Morton had probably pushed down bird seed in the white skulls so that they had more volume.
In another study, published in 2011, Jason E. Lewis and colleagues re-measured the cranial volumes of the skulls in Morton's collection, and re-examined the respective statistical analyses by Morton and by Gould, concluding that, contrary to Gould's analysis, Morton did not falsify craniometric research results to support his racial and social prejudices, and that the " Caucasians " possessed the greatest average cranial volume in the sample.
To the extent that Morton's craniometric measurements were erroneous, the error was away from his personal biases.
Ultimately, Lewis and colleagues disagreed with most of Gould's criticisms of Morton, finding that Gould's work was " poorly supported ", and that, in their opinion, the confirmation of the results of Morton's original work " weakens the argument of Gould, and others, that biased results are endemic in science.
By the end of Henry VII's reign, the king's frugality, and Morton's tax policy, carried out by Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, had replenished the treasury.
Morton gave a statement, later known as ' Morton's Fork ', that no one was to be exempted from taxes: " If the subject is seen to live frugally, tell him because he is clearly a money saver of great ability, he can afford to give generously to the King.
More served as a page in Morton's house, acted in revels at Morton's court at Knole House, the archiepiscopal palace, and later mentioned him in his work Utopia.
Specializing in hot jazz and recoiling from so-called sweet music, the band took its name from one of its most frequent numbers, Jelly Roll Morton's " Wolverine Blues.
It was preceded by a performance of Morton's Cox and Box.
Morton's grandmother eventually found out that he was playing jazz in a local brothel, and subsequently kicked him out of her house.

Morton's and George
Morton had discretion to exempt persons and institutions from paying these thirds, and the historian George Hewitt found no striking evidence of bias in Morton's exemptions.
Morton's notoriety only increased when he served as the star defense witness in one of the most notable trials of the nineteenth century, that of John White Webster who had been accused of the murder of Dr. George Parkman.
A new paper, " The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias " six anthropologists agree that there was bias — but that the bias came from Gould, who failed to examine, let alone remeasure, the crania to determine Morton's level of accuracy.
He also referred to the polygenist Samuel George Morton's work in America.

Morton's and their
Part of Morton's argument was that the Texas Hill Country had been settled by many German and Czech immigrants in the middle-19th century, and nude sunbathing had been a part of their culture.
In return their sons were to marry two of Morton's three daughters.
Morton's exec, Richard O ' Kane, stated fire from Wahoo was intended to force the troops to abandon their boats and no troops were deliberately targeted.
The story concludes with an informal party at the Morton's farm again, with the boys recounting their adventures for their friends, while the clock strikes midnight again.
Morton's theorem should be contrasted with the fundamental theorem of poker, which states that a player wants their opponents to make decisions which minimize their own expectation.

Morton's and work
His activity was confined to political and especially diplomatic channels ; during John Morton's lifetime, Foxe was his subordinate, but after the archbishop's death he was first in Henry's confidence, and had an important share in all the diplomatic work of the reign.
His financial work brought him a less enviable notoriety, though history has deprived him of the credit which is his due for " Morton's Fork.
This work arose out of Morton's diocesan dealings with Puritans, and in it Morton argued that deprivals of nonconforming clergy only took place for obstinate and public opposition to church doctrine over extended periods. William Hinde argued that the surplice was not Biblical, and that ceremonies should be matters indifferent.
In July 2003, Morton joined the Open Source Development Labs under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. ( makers of the Moxi home entertainment media center ), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo.
** Morton's preface to Whitelocke's Swedish Embassy, also reprinted in Reeve's edition of the same work ;
Morton's life and work were later to become the subject of the 1944 Paramount Pictures film The Great Moment.
However, Morton's work was preceded by that of Georgia surgeon Crawford Williamson Long, who employed ether as an anesthetic on March 30, 1842.
Morton's radio work is highly regarded ; In 2006 he played the Prince of Darkness in the BBC radio adaptation of Dracula ( Voyage of the Demeter, 2006 ).
Crispin Bates has noted that Morton's " systematic justification " for the separation of races, along with the work of Louis Agassiz, was also used by those who favoured slavery in the US, with the Charleston Medical Journal noting at his death that " We of the South should consider him as our benefactor for aiding most materially in giving to the negro his true position as an inferior race.
Two separate studies, one conducted in 1988 and the other in 2011, show that Morton's work was accurate.
Morton's work gained more support because his work was considered to be evidence of true objective science unlike others such as Pidgeon.

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