Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firm Foundation. In Sweet Springs, Mo., Harvey House and Herb Lotz set up a real-estate firm, called it House & Lotz...
...think so, but biologists know better. It is a chromosome that does the business, whether the offspring is a fruit fly's or a man's. To predetermine sex, control the chromosome. In the Journal of Heredity, organ of the American Genetic Association, Princeton Biologist E. Newton Harvey...
...Harvey reasoned that since female-producing sperm seems to contain slightly more chromatin (chromosome material), it must be slightly heavier. The problem, therefore, is to separate "biological isotopes." Harvey, citing a centrifuge method which has separated the light and heavy parts of sea urchins' eggs, thinks it can be done. His proposal: use a special centrifuge to whirl the sperm; the lighter male-producing sperm will rise to the top, can be skimmed off and planted by artificial insemination...
...Harvey. Delightful fantasy of a gentle drinking man whose buns beget a 6 ft. 1½in. bunny (TIME...
...questions or less, the panel tries to identify some object, suggested by a listener. Samples: Ben Hur's chariot, the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby...