Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate a museum to the sober scholar (and to his disciple, Miami's late Dean Harvey C. Minnich), who was to become one of the best-known names in U.S. education: the author of McGuffey's famed Eclectic Readers...
...leading authority on the Arizona meteorite crater, Dr. Harvey H. Nininger is naturally interested in the moon, whose face has apparently been pocked by thousands of flying meteorites. In the current Sky and Telescope, Nininger speculates that one large meteorite may have blasted a tunnel through one of the moon's ridges...
...world but shootin' and killin' and stompin' on people in alleys"), but sex got by far the biggest play. Illinois' Republican Congressman Fred Busbey (who is both an Elk and a Moose) gave a resounding if not very relevant introduction to Chicago News Commentator Paul Harvey as "one of the greatest living Americans today" and one who has long been in the "forefront of the fight on Communism." Harvey attributed TV's woes to the fact that most performers are "steeped in the bawdy night life" of Manhattan. He insisted he was no prude...
...West Texas, the area around Midland (pop. 34,256) had once given up hopes for oil. The land had been drilled repeatedly without luck. In 1943, Seaboard Oil found a promising rock formation, but no oil, on Abner Spraberry's farm. Not until 1948 did Wildcatter Arthur ("Tex") Harvey discover that the "Spraberry Trend," as the formation was named, was full of oil, though imprisoned in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands. Then, the new techniques of the industry came into play: soap & kerosene, pumped into the sandstone under tremendous pressure, loosened it enough to force...
...Harvey Love and Bill Leavitt will take their varsity. Junior varsity, freshman, and combination crews down to Red Top on June 5, where they will begin the intensive training for the June 20 races against Yale...