Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gelding tripped on a hurdle near Fox Point, L. I., throwing Harvey Dow Gibson, Manufacturers Trust Co.'s president, fracturing his clavicle...
...filed into its board room one day last week and sat down in four of the seven chairs around the directors' table. Secretary Woodin, ex-officio a board member, had hurried over from the Treasury to make up a quorum with Texas' Jesse Holman Jones, Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch, Utah's Wilson McCarthy...
...Chicago. Iglehart got word in Paris, came over on the Berengaria, played in Chicago the night after his boat docked in New York. Last week Guest's team retained its Class A championship by beating the Sixth Corps Area 16 to 8 with a two-goal man. Harvey Shaffer, at back. Only drawback in last week's tournament was the fact that the Aknusti team which won the Eastern title did not go out West to make the final three-cornered. Chicago polo enthusiasts hoped that the presence of the crack Army team at Fort Sheridan might cause...
There is, in French 1, a choice between various methods of learning the principle parts of the verb "ennuyer." One can choose Mr. Kelsey as an instructor, and be bored with attempts to liven the classes with French geography and American social problems; one can choose Mr. Harvey and be bored with an interminable succession of "n'est-ce pas?'s." Or one can choose one of the other instructors with less developed technique, and take his chances on the method of boredom. It doesn't matter much in the end; one goes to as many classes as the Dean...
...House members welched, declined to carry out the understanding that the Harriman should be saved. All last week the Clearing House squabbled about what should be done. Finally Secretary Woodin put an end to argument, announced that he had asked Manufacturers Trust Co.. headed by indefatigably public-spirited Harvey Dow Gibson, to take over the Harriman's assets and promptly pay depositors in full-"without risk" to itself for it was reported that the Treasury intended to hold the members of the Clearing House to their moral obligation. No Harriman came forward like the Cones to rescue depositors...