Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford is a motor tycoon, Harvey Firestone a tire tycoon...
...late over their wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle through the body. The 100 doctors wore full dress and all their decorations...
Charles liked his leech. The man had a visible vitality which often translated itself into swift rages and quick passes with the dagger at his side. It is not recorded that Dr. Harvey's blade penetrated anything more eventful than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit...
...plates of diagrams came out under his name-72 pages of clear, logical, dignified exposition in which the whole existing theory of the blood was demolished. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, every village barber who had ever breathed a vein had known that the blood moved but until the hawkeyed Harvey, no one knew...
...Harvey Firestone Jr. were frequently in company with Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, last week, and landed with them from the Majestic (see above). They were met on the dock in Manhattan by famed Akron (Ohio) Tire Man Harvey Firestone Sr., who told interviewers that Harvey Jr. has just returned from the Afric Republic of Liberia where the Firestones have established rubber plantations which have been partially instrumental in breaking down the British rubber monopoly (TIME...