Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised menacingly over the heads of two young morons of Roanoke, Va. Banker John P. Morgan, passing through the city on a quiet motor-trip vacation (see p. 20), was shocked to read in the newspapers, not that the original murderers had been caught but that two youths, Norman Harvey, 26, farmer's son, and Joe Bryant, 19, city employe's son, had been apprehended near a Roanoke bank after Bryant had cashed-or thought he had cashed-a check for $17,000 demanded from Col. Lindbergh to avert harm from his second, six-month...
...Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police disclosed that the Bryant-Harvey case-simple, stupid, but none the less horrid-was one of three extortion attempts made since small Jon's birth last August. One letter was a warning or threat to "watch out." Another asked $50,000 in $20 bills in a suitcase. The illiterate letters leading up to Bryant & Harvey's arrests began coming in December. Excerpt...
...heart remains the microscope. To him "the microscope has proven perhaps the greatest single aid of science in the combating and prevention of disease." Proud he is that his lenses have led to three major biological advances of 1932. Boasted he last week: "We built for Professor Edmund Newton Harvey of Princeton a centrifugal microscope which allows living cells to be studied while whirling at the ratio of 10,000 revolutions a minute. Dr. John Belling of the Carnegie Institution, using photomicrographic equipment, photographed the gene, the tiny particle which is believed to control heredity. Dr. Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff...
...events occurred in Manhattan last week which poignantly stressed the short span of modern medicine, 1) Dr. Harvey Gushing spoke about the pituitary gland before the Harvey Society at the Academy of Medicine. 2) New York University promoted Dr. William Hallock Park to the chair of preventive medicine...
SINCLAIR LEWIS-Carl Van Doren and Harvey Taylor-Doubleday, Doran...