Word: meteorologist
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...instance, Astronomy 2a, plus some skill in trigonometry, will provide the key to a commission for men who pass the physical requirements of the Navy's V-7 program. Geography 10a, on the other hand, does not contain enough weather forecasting to make an Air Corps meteorologist; but draftees with this elementary training behind them, if they speak up loudly enough, will stand a better chance than their comrades of being selected for training by the Army. Psychology concentrators who want to test the I. Q. of their fellows will stand a poor chance of making...
...Meteorologist...
...turn on dollars, are based on a long and respectable history of pioneer flying. Back in the days of the 1910 orange crates, now grisled veterans of flying formed the club which then held meets on the busy site of the Squantum Naval Air Station. Karl O. Langer, research meteorologist will act as Faculty adviser to the club...
...tropical hurricane struck Long Island and New England last September, killing some 600 people, the world's biggest city emerged practically unscathed. Many New Yorkers, safe in their towering apartment buildings, canyon-like streets and skyscrapers, did not even know a hurricane was passing. Last week, however, Meteorologist Charles Franklin Brooks, of Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, pointed out that if a future hurricane happened to hit Manhattan just wrong, not all the brick and asphalt in the city could prevent a terrible disaster...
...Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), U. S. naval hydrographer & meteorologist, laid the foundation for international cooperation in charting winds & currents on the high seas...