Word: geologist
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...ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science. His very painting was a scientific search-the plants and rocks in the background of the Portrait of Ginevra de' Bend seem to have been executed by a botanist and a geologist. As he began to satisfy himself with technical improvements in such matters as perspective and chiaroscuro, he gradually lost interest in tirt for art's sake...
Practical Works. Among the great recent works of Soviet science are the explorations of some 1,200 geologists. Yale's Geologist Carl O. Dunbar reported that they have uncovered vast stores of metals, minerals and oil, keeping the Soviet war machine well supplied despite the temporary loss of resources to the Nazi invader. Since 1939 they have tripled known coal reserves...
...been one of the quietest and best-organized in history. Its headquarters is a big, bemapped office in the Geological Survey in Washington. Its chief strategists are a Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more than...
...above the old Hudson's Bay post at Fort Norman. Young Alex Mackenzie, who scouted the north country for the fur trade in the late 18th Century, made a note of the surface seepage. But not until 1914, after Turner Valley made Canada conscious of oil, did a geologist venture to Fort Norman. Not until 1920 was the first well brought in, after prodigious pioneering...
...Gerald F. Loughlin, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, gave the answer: "No." Reporting to his volcanic boss, Secretary of Interior Ickes, Dr. Loughlin estimated that the chances were three or four million to one against a blockbuster touching off a volcanic eruption. It might happen, said he, if a bomb hit a rock wedged in the vent of a volcano which was just barely holding the volcanic force back. But, he added, "the earth forces involved are so enormous as compared with any that man can bring to bear that the latter are wholly inconsequential...