Word: aerologist
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...Akron's aerologist (who went down with his ship) had predicted thunderstorms "but had no doubt of the ship's ability to avoid bad weather...
What of the strange Antarctic weather? What causes the terrific hurricanes, sometimes reaching a velocity of 120 miles an hour? What influence have Polar blizzards and monsoons on the climate of the southern hemisphere, upon the waters of the Nile? U. S. Weatherman William C. Haines, expert aerologist, will seek to interpret these phenomena...
Lieutenant Anderson, aerologist of the Shenandoah, had told that he had advised Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne to change the course of the ship shortly before the accident occurred, but that Commander Lansdowne had demanded reasons for doing so and that he was unable to point out any definite danger signs...
Heinen: "No, it was not possible. The piling up of evidence of the danger was so great and so varied that it would have been on this occasion impossible for me not to have seen it. ... My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as an aerologist is not changed with this flight. It is the same now as it was before, for I know that he was making his observations as closely as he possibly could. I only say here that he made a mistake in judgment because he had not quite enough experience. My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as a pilot...
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