Word: mineralogists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining instrument for radioactive substances. During the five-day hunt, a hog whose headquarters were at the dump ground was kept under observation...
...Tuesday. It happens that his character, William Clissold, enunciates a prodigious amount of Wellsian philosophy. But the "vulgar" reader and reviewer are asked to understand that the book is not Mr. Wells' autobiography, but William Clissold's. The latter is merely a "relative" of Mr. Wells, a mineralogist whose promoter-father committed suicide on the way to prison, leaving the mother free to remarry and the boys, William and Dickon Clissold, to make their own lives...
...Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such a museum by Dr. George F. Kunz, mineralogist and gem expert, an honorary fellow of the American Museum of Natural History, who had visited every world's fair since the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. Announcement of the Towne bequest sent experts in agriculture, animal industry, mining and metallurgy, transportation, engineering, aeronautics, etc., etc., flocking to Europe to study...
...Mineralogist W. F. Foshag is making the first scientific survey of the world's richest silver mines, in Mexico. Workings begun centuries ago by the Toltecs still produce voluminously. At Guanajuato, 12 hours from Mexico City, Dr. Foshag will visit the huge Veta Madre (Mother Vein) where the work shaft is 1,700 ft. deep and 30 in diameter through solid rock. He will see the magnificent Cathedral of Chihuahua, built in the 18th Century by two escaped convicts who, having stumbled upon the mines now called for Santa Eulalia, promised the edifice to a priest if he would...
...with him. He had to. Mack knew business, Benoni nothing. By chance Benoni learned there were lead and silver along a stretch of shore. He cared nothing for that. He wanted the rocks for fish-drying and bought them for one hundred dollars. Came a testy Englishman, with a mineralogist. While stupid Benoni fumbled for answers, the Englishman bid up to twenty thousand. Benoni's staggering imagination doubled the sum and collapsed. The Englishman had a title drawn and stalked...