Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrus E. Woods, slender, gray-suited, American Ambassador to Madrid; Colonel George Harvey, tall, horn-spectacled, with square-topped derby; Alanson B. Houghton, clean-shaven, florid and grave, Ambassador to Berlin, came down the gangplank of the George Washington together, back from Europe with the usual Ambassadorial truisms...
...Harvey said that conditions in England were improving; Houghton said that Germany was poor and her people looking for work, and that he didn't think they wanted another war. Mr. Woods said that Spain was very prosperous and had virtually no unemployment. Referring to the political situation, he added illogically: "If Spain should become a republic, of which there is no possibility, I may say that her first president would be King Alfonso, who is that popular with the masses...
Ambassador George Harvey...
Experimenters on both sides of the Atlantic are working to produce " cold " light, i. e., illuminating substances with a minimum of heat. Professor E. Newton Harvey, of Princeton, and Dr. W. R. Amberson, of the Nela Research Laboratories, Cleveland, have isolated " luciferin " and " luciferase," the phosphorescent substances which produce the glow of fireflies and similar animals. They hope to manufacture them artificially in quantity...
Peroration from Mr. Harvey's last London speech...