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Harvey

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Harvey, city (1990 pop. 29,771), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb S of Chicago; inc. 1895. Its manufactures include steel castings, metal products, chemicals, machinery, and electronic equipment. Harvey has an oil research center. The city was founded by Turlington W. Harvey, a wealthy lumberman, in 1890.
Harvey
William. 1578--1657, English physician who discovered the mechanism of blood circulation, expounded in On the motion of the heart (1628)
Harvey
six-foot rabbit who appears only to a genial drunkard. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 444]
See : Fantasy
Harvey
six-foot rabbit invisible to everyone but the play’s protagonist. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 444]
See : Invisibility
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Then a low, grey mother-wave swung out of the fog, tucked Harvey under one arm, so to speak, and pulled him off and away to leeward; the great green closed over him, and he went quietly to sleep.
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Harvey and William's the only ones that's left now; and, as I was saying, they haven't got here in time.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit his usually expressionless countenance when his employer briskly entered at half past nine in company with his young lady stenographer.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
 
 
 
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