Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long watches at sea. ... Having watched them skimming away from the ship's prow on many occasions I had made conclusions one or two years ago which substantiated the deductions of both the University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, and Connecticut's Trinity College Geologist Edward Leffingwell Troxell...
...body bent downward in a curve from its midsection so that the tail touched the water occasionally, giving it accelerating bursts of speed. The wings move so as to make splash-points with the down-curved tips, at intervals resembling a column of colons exactly as described by Geologist Troxell. This flight ended in a glide with tail touching in a swimming motion several yards before the fish plopped down and submerged. In landing from all flights the tail touches first. When making a maximum-speed, straightaway, low-altitude run from a danger area the speed achieved is apparently...
Four distinguished U. S. scientists, Arthur H. Compton, Geologist Kirtley F. Mather, Astronomer Harlan T. Stetson, Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, uttered hosannahs of approbation for a book The Advancing Front of Science* by George W. Gray, from which the above words are taken...
Recently, Professor Edward Leffingwell Troxell of Hartford, Conn.'s Trinity College traveled through the tropical Pacific. Although a geologist, he took the trip largely for the purpose of observing "animal adaptation and behavior." Watching for natural phenomena, he studied the appearance of the water just before a flying fish lifted from it. This, said he in Science last week, "was not like the wake of a boat, nor like the ruffled water behind an aeroplane taking off. It was rather a series of dots in two parallel rows, thus : : : : : : :, and was undoubtedly made by the tips of the fluttering...
Professor John H. Sawyer of Boise High School, longtime Idaho geologist, advanced two possible explanations...