Word: harvey
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Though school and hospital cooperated in some degree down the years, they muffed the chance to get into the forefront of medical progress by joining forces when other medical centers began to be set up (e.g., Manhattan's pace-making Columbia-Presbyterian). Yale Graduate Harvey Gushing, later one of the world's most famed neurosurgeons, refused an appointment from his alma mater in 1906 because he thought the school was in the doldrums and would not get out until it teamed up with the hospital...
According to the Physical Review, a group of scientists at the University of California (Albert Ghiorso, G. Bernard Rossi, Bernard G. Harvey and Stanley G. Thompson) have created Element 99, the heaviest so far. They did it by bombarding Uranium 238 (Element 92) with a beam of positively charged nitrogen atoms from a 60-inch cyclotron. The nitrogen atoms contained seven protons and seven neutrons, and when they collided with U-238, all except five of the neutrons joined its nucleus. The seven added protons raised the atomic number to 99, and the added neutrons and protons together raised...
...night the events were even more closely spaced. Some saw the Student Players' production of "Harvey" Friday night and attended the Glee Club Concert on Saturday night. Others switched the order, or substituted a basketball game. Whatever they were doing at 9 o'clock, by the shank of the evening, the crowds were bound to be safely would about a drink and a date at a fraternity or dormitory party. In fact, some omitted the cultural and athletic attractions altogether...
...trouble began when Harvey moved to Florida, got into the oil business and dropped out of active participation in Fruehauf Trailer. Roy demanded that his brother come back and spend more time with the company. Harvey refused. Roy forced him out of the chairmanship, but let him keep the title of honorary chairman...
Unappeased by this sop, Harvey looked around for somebody who could help him fight back at brother Roy. The man he found was George J. Kolowich, head of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., a banker who went to jail in 1933 for embezzlement, but who has since made a fortune in real estate and trucking. Last July Kolowich bought Harvey's 9% stock interest in Fruehauf, went to work to unseat Roy as president of the company...