Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career as teacher and geologist, Mather estimates he has taken oaths of allegiance to the Constitution "at least 50 times." His objection to the Teachers Oath centered around the need for a professor, presumably independent of the government, to take it. With such an oath, he stated, "Education would then become the crassest of propaganda and the fascist spirit would dominate a land from which liberty had been banished...
...Linck hiked nine miles through thick jungle and at dusk hiked out again, preceded by a native guide armed with a flashlight and rifle. At the camp of a seismographic crew, they just missed a battle in which seven Indians were killed during a surprise attack on a geologist...
...Scattered through Woodward's swelling roster are such noted local residents as Architect Hugh Stubbins, Bacteriologist Robert Gohd. Chemist Charles Coryell and Geologist Louis DeGoes...
Oceanographers have long considered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge about the most interesting single feature of the ocean bottom. According to the original theory of continental drift, which was presented by German Geologist Alfred Wegener in 1920, the ridge was made of material left behind when North and South America broke away from Europe and Africa, and the chasm between them widened to form the Atlantic. The ridge reflects the shape of the shores on both sides of it, and it emphasizes the remarkable fact that if the New World were pushed eastward, it would fit with some precision into...
...first man to see potential wealth in the Sahara was a brilliant but unstable French geologist named Conrad Kilian. In 1927, after three harrowing years in the central Sahara-on one expedition he was obliged to remove his own tonsils without anesthetic-Kilian returned to Paris proclaiming that the Sahara was a huge depository of oil and natural gas. Geologists scoffed. "There is no more oil in the Sahara than there are trees in the Atlantic," cracked one. In 1950, worn out by repeated bouts of mental illness and years of rebuffs from French authorities, Kilian hanged himself...