Word: harvey
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Crusader second man Paul Harvey had the lowest match score, 74, and Holy Cross Captain Tracy Mehr shot a 77. Matson and Wilde both scored...
...Captain Harvey had turned about and was headed back toward London. He radioed that his craft had been struck by lightning, told the Northolt emergency crew to stand by for a crash landing. Pilot Harvey knew he was taking on a large order. The explosion had jammed his rudder in central position. He had only slight control of his tail elevators. Harvey was going to try to land on what control he could get from his engines and wing ailerons...
Whiskies & Sherries. At 9:30 p.m., while the doctors and ambulances waited below, the crippled Viking circled overhead. Harvey let down for the landing, overshot the runway, and gunned his plane up again for another try. On the second try he made a good landing, got a loud cheer from waiting ground crewmen and the emergency squad. An ex-R.A.F. pilot looked at the holes in the ship's sides and said: "Not many came back that way during the war. A 4.5-inch shell couldn't have done worse...
Nobody was sure who Tom Parr was, but Los Angeles Urologist Elmer Belt went searching through his medical books in the systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate. Finally, buried deep in a volume of The Works of William Harvey (discoverer of the circulatory system), Dr. Belt found a four-page chapter titled: Anatomical Examination Of The Body Of Thomas Parr. It began: "Thomas Parr, a poor countryman, born near Winnington, in the County of Salop [England] died on the 14th of November in the Year of Grace 1635, after having lived 152 years and nine months and survived nine...
...just ran out of gas," Crimson coach Harvey Love commented after his crew's first race. BU, a quarter length behind at the start, slowly caught up and stayed virtually even during the body of the race until the final sprint, when it pulled away from the Crimson, which had started chopping water. The extra conditioning and racing experience that BU had on its Southern trip made the difference...