Word: geologist
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Professor McLaughlin went to Mexico last summer as geologist for a corporation which owns a rich silver mine on the Mess Central, a huge table and near the border of Durango and Sinalon, two native states on the West Coast...
Nick-a-Jack Cave, near Shellmound, Tenn., is a long black involved passage, coiled, like an intestine, under a pot-bellied mountain. Into it last week crawled one Lawrence S. Ashley, geologist, cave-guide. Clambering up the entrance to a secret tunnel which he had discovered, Explorer Ashley heard a great echoing roar as a landslide filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving...
...held professorships at the University of Arkansas, Denison, Queen's University, Canada, and has been at Harvard since 1924. Professor Mather is an associate geologist of the United States Geological Survey. In 1919-20 he was Petrological Geologist to Bolivia and Argentina...
...after course is taken; at the same time the student gets to know better what a professional career means. This knowledge is of great value to him, and probably in most cases it cannot be obtained in college without concentration. At soon as the decision to become a professional geologist is reached, the man should plan the rest of his college courses accordingly. No fixed formula for the adjustment of courses can be given, since so much depends on the kind of training, which has already been secured in the college and during previous days. Early consultation with the teachers...
...author in an attempt at sustained tenseness fails to appreciate the differentiation between fact, exaggeration, and fiction. The result is a hodge podge unique, but not altogether barren of interest. The economist might weep over two hundred dollar onions, or choke over a thousand dollar glass of water; the geologist might be alarmed over finding talc, even in California, to be a staple plantation product; but even the stylist would be intrigued by mountains "teaming with gold and platinum...