Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coveted Distinguished Flying Cross. Said the citation: "This officer has displayed a high standard of skill and courage in operations against the enemy. He is an excellent leader. .. . ." Browne was the 102nd American R.C.A.F. man to win a British or Canadian decoration. Some others: ¶ Squadron Leader John Harvey Curry, 4g. A Texan (Dallas), he enlisted in 1940, won the D.F.C. and the Order of the British Empire...
...Flight Lieut. William John Sanger, 29, of Harvey, N.D., who enlisted in April 1941. A bomber pilot, he has won both the D.S.O. and the D.F.C. ¶ Flight Lieut. John Harlan Stickell, 30, Gilson, Ill. He joined up in 1941, is a bomber pilot, holds the D.S.O. and the D.F.C...
Sometimes nerves, like pollarded willows or clipped adenoids, will spread and grow after pruning. The growth rate may be an eighth of an inch a day, or even faster. This fact has been the basis of infantile-paralysis treatments by Lieut. Commander Harvey Ellsworth Billig, Jr. and Physiologist Anthonie Van Harreveld of the California Institute of Technology...
...biggest surprise of all, naturally, is "Harvey" himself. Harvey is the pooka, and the pooka is Harvey-he's the miracle that Elwood P. Dowd found leaning against a lamp post after a big night with the boys, and he quite thoroughly disturbs Elwood's sister, Vita, who thinks, but is not quite positive, that he is ruining her social reputation...
...nudging Fay for honors is Josephine Hull, fresh from "Arsenic and Old Lace," and still possessed of a fresh and effervescent enough touch to carry some of "Harvey's" more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...