Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School of Worcester. About that time Henry Landes, a Hoosier who had been a student with her, took his A.M. in geology at Harvard. A few months later, on the day after New Year's, 1894, they were married. He had a job as assistant to the state geologist of New Jersey. The next fall he was made principal of the Rockland (Me.) High School and a year later was appointed professor of geology at the University of Washington. There he has remained ever since and is now Dean of the College of Science. They...
...State geologists sped to the scene, not knowing beforehand whether to attribute the subsidence to dissolving limestone strata over subterranean caverns, or to some extinct volcano's clearing its throat and swallowing. When Geologist G. S. Lambert arrived, the volcano theory was discarded. He called attention to the nature of a round lake some six miles away, called Old Maid's Pool. From its formation, it had evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble...
Near Bend, Ore., a University of Oregon geologist found fossils of huge camels in Pleistocene strata...
...Christian as well as a geologist, Professor Mather finds no difficulty in accepting the theory of evolution, and believes that the apparent contradictions in the Bible to any such theory can be explained with simplicity. He believes that the only significance of such a work as Genesis is to present the spiritual truth about God and the origin of the universe, and that it should be regarded as a textbook of biology. He goes on to say, in the report of his evidence given at Dayton...
...been my privilege as a geologist to read the records in the rocks; knowing the ages of the rocks has led to better knowledge of the Rock of Ages; I have watched the procession of life on the long road from the one-celled but of primitive protoplasm to the present assemblage of varied creatures including...