Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell an inquisitive public, New York's American Institute last week conducted another of its popular lectures on scientific topics. Speaker was Edmund Newton Harvey, professor of physiology at Princeton and authority on chemiluminescence for the National Research Council.* After explaining that luminescence in living matter is not phosphorescence and has nothing to do with phosphorus, he had a simple story to tell...
Cocolobo Bay Club, millionaire retreat on a Florida key. He met many Kansans at a reception given in his honor by S. B. Rohrer. old Topeka resident, now promoting real estate in Florida. He was the attraction that brought 300 men to another reception, at Harvey S. Firestone...
...enable a detective, trailing him, to find another kid kidnaped by the same gang, has the right flavor in spite of its slow movement and the extraordinary stupidity of the criminals. Hero Bennett, 12, uses to advantage certain metallic mots by Harriet Ford and the late Harvey O'Higgins. "You win the ten thousand dollars reward. What will you do with it?" . . . "I'll count it." Best shot: the kidnapers in Grand Central Station, Manhattan...
Looking around some more you could see William Harrison Dempsey, the evening's promoter; Estelle Taylor, cinemactress when she isn't being Mrs. Dempsey; A J Drexel Biddle Jr., Harvey S. Firestone, John Ringling, Baron & Baroness de Bonsetten, Irving Berlin, Senator Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette, Publisher Paul Block. Charles B. Dillingham. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...
...will disclose a synthetic metropolis eight square miles in area, as colorful as the vanished palaces of Carthage, as modern in design as a straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago for sook archaeology to create skyscrapers: Harvey Wiley Corbett (Chairman), Ralph T. Walker and Raymond M. Hood, of Manhattan; John A. Holabird, Edward H. Bennett and Daniel H. Burnham of Chica go; Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco; Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia...