Word: ichthyologist
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...casually observed in the Fleet by Officers and Men standing 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...
Most positive proponent of the gliding theory is University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, who published his observations in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1935. He testified that "flying fishes gain the momentum to get into the air with their rigid wings by a surface taxi of from 5 to 15 yards at a speed of about 10 yards a second, comparable to the speed of the best sprinters. This speed is attained by a sculling action of the tail fin. . . . To attain, the speed necessary to get into the air, an average...
...astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists in Manhattan and Princeton. As usual, the biggest and best publicized gathering was that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which had chosen Atlantic City for a meeting place, and where, if he wished, an ichthyologist could listen to an atom-smasher and a cosmologist to a breeder of fruit flies...
Anybody who needs in ichthyologist, a marine, an actuarian, a piano tuner, a vagrant, or a grocer should consult the Senior Class. What is more, these are not the only unusual careers chosen by the 1075 members of the Class of 1936 who will appear in the Album...
...another year George T. Skinner will be a marine; Richard P. Bissell, a professional baseball player; Hyman Goldenstein, a vagrant; Paul C. Tiffany, an ichthyologist; Otto W. Sprague, a grocer; and William H. Durfee, an actuarian...