Word: geophysicist
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Captain Rickenbacker was not the first to eye the polar icecaps. Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would...
Like everybody else, scientists have long wanted to know what Davy Jones's locker holds, besides sunken ships. Oceanographers have done some probing and charting, but the bottom of the ocean is still mostly a vast unknown. A Columbia University geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, recently reported that he had found a way to explore that sunken scene: a camera with which he has photographed the ocean floor at depths up to three miles...
...instrument readings, he hurried upslope again, this time provided with a car. Behind him he left word that Vesuvius had not put on a better show since 1872, when showers of stone killed 20. (By week's end the present eruption had caused 26 deaths.) But the little geophysicist was also sure that the show was "effusive" and not "explosive"; he had been much more impressed by the 1928 display of Sicily's Mt. Etna...
...then illusion, mere fantasy, mirage that plays trickery with our eyes reigning the vision of you, the famous historical, geographer, geophysicist, astronomer and Boy Scout in the guise of one so lowly...
Last week Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. was an able young geophysicist. This week he is becoming an important defense manufacturer. To his Consolidated Engineering Corp., big Sperry Gyroscope Co. turned over one whole branch of its business: instruments to measure vibration and strain (in airplanes, ships...