Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London hotel room last week was Dr. Bailey Willis, 72-year-old geologist-emeritus of Stanford University, attache of the Carnegie Institution, scientific advisor to states and governments.* He had just returned from a 7000-mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking...
...Biographer. J. Lewis May was born in London (1873) and lives there, but his family still consider themselves natives of Devonshire. After a number of years in France he became literary advisor and reader for Publishers John Lane and Elkin Mathews; was made general editor of Lane's English edition of the works of Anatole France, of whom he wrote a biography. Lane knew agnostic Author France and admired him, but not nearly so much as he does Newman. He married young, has one son, one daughter. His literary tastes are conservative; he also likes detective stories, loafing, smoking...