Word: geologist
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This is the Harvard whose president argues the necessity for social scientists to dissect American institutions "as fearlessly as the geologist examines the origin of rocks," who knows the merit of "pure" science and thought but decries the pointless "thrashing over old straw" which often passes for scholarship...
Alvin York, World War I hero, drilled again, this time for oil, and struck it a few miles from his home in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains. He said that he was getting 13 barrels an hour; the state geologist said that the well would not make Hero York a millionaire, but he might become "materially wealthier...
...serve for three years, are: William A. Barron, Jr. '14, Boston, manufacturer; Augustus Thorndike '19, Boston, surgeon; Alexander J. Cassatt '27, Philadelphia, insurance executive; and Frederick R. Moseley, Jr. '36, New York City, banker. The Graduate Schools director, to serve for three years: Donald H. McLaughlin, San Francisco, Cal., geologist and educator...
Ganso Azul had become a legend since the day in 1929 that a U.S. geologist, studying the trackless Montana for a possible railroad, spotted from the air what has since been described as the nearest thing to a perfect geological oil dome. A 2,800-mile supply line up the Amazon, oil diplomacy, and proliferating jungle postponed the payoff till 1939. Then Ganso Azul drilled a well that was a honey: 750 barrels a day. Thenceforth, the problem was not producing but selling...
...chamber is a steel cylinder made of half-inch galvanized plate. Three feet in diameter and five feet high, it looks like a fat hot-water tank with an escape hatch. In addition to one cramped geologist sitting on a cushioned, red-leather seat, the chamber carries emergency oxygen, communication equipment and testing apparatus. The cylinder will withstand the pressure at a depth of 100 feet. A two-ton lead block attached to the bottom provides stability and a safety factor: the block can be released by turning a handle inside the cell to send the chamber bobbing...