Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Herald's new era depends not only on conservative Publisher Doorly ("Don't spend something you haven't got") and his son Gilbert, the paper's assistant managing editor, but also upon Publisher Doorly's teammate, short, paunchy Pulitzer Prizewinner (1919) Editor Harvey Newbranch who writes lengthy, lucid, politically-effective editorials, dictates many of the paper's policies and has for a son-in-law Congressman Harry Buffington Coffee...
...ship, famous in Freshman annals, had left on her third trip of the afternoon, and was plowing peacefully along under the direction of Freshman coach Harvey Love when danger of collision with the Browne and Nichols wharf became imminent...
This recommendation regarding picture-taking provided the one discordant note in the committee's report. After the report was printed, says a stapled addendum, "a divergence of recollection" arose on this topic. No surprise to newspapermen was this divergence when Managing Editor Harvey Deuell of the New York News was revealed as an active participant in the discussions. The News alternately practices and impugns every bravura trick of modern tabloid journalism and would suffer greatly unless the picture strictures were eased. Other members of the newspaper committees also thought the original recommendation an "excessively drastic restriction." Accordingly the amended...
Lemon. Another who in youth tried his hand at business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields...
Only a handful of Friends wore plain bonnets or broad-brimmed black hats, but the use of the oldtime Quaker ''thee" and "thy" was common. No one quaked or trembled, as would once have been permissible, but there was some public weeping, notably by British Quaker Harvey, who sobbed after being moved to pray that he might become a "candle of the Lord"-a traditional Quaker expression. The meetings at which such prayers were voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were...