Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Head of the "Solid State Group" of the United states Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., Garrels has done field work in Newfoundland, the Mississippi Valley, the Boulder river area of Montana, and the Colorado Plateaus...
...greatest importance that he know--have unequivocal assurance--that whatever he finds and reports . . . will not penalize him as a man. If he sees men around him dismissed from their positions for less than the most serious reasons, because of popular clamor, or on anything less than the most solid proof, it would not be surprising if he were then to shirk his own basic responsibility in the field of learning to press...
...benches around the square jumped up and followed me right out of town." Leader of the new Athenians, by general agreement, is Richardson's old crony, Clinton Williams Murchison, 59, a financial genius who, according to affectionate legend, can add $1 and $1 and get $11 million. A solid little bundle of energy (5 ft. 6 in., 175 Ibs.) with horn-rimmed glasses, twinkling blue eyes and a putty blob of a nose, Murchison (pronounced Murkison) is the first of a brand-new breed of Texas oilmen. Having made his millions in oil, he is now using them...
...wells in six states and oil reserves of more than 11 million bbls. It started hunting oil and gas in Canada through a subsidiary, but the subsidiary was spun off (with Murchison retaining control) when the Trans-Canada pipeline deal shaped up. The pipeline's future seemed so solid to Murchison that he thought it had no place in wildcatting Delhi. Said he: "Canadian Delhi is so conservative we kicked it out of Delhi." Such corporate spin-offs have well profited Murchison and his stockholders. A man who paid $1,000 for 1,000 shares of Southern Union...
...read B's books, as- believe it or not - we have . . . We hurry to his illustrated lecture on 'Pre-Picasso Picasso.' And we learn, to our stupefaction, that French impressionism had its antecedents in earlier painting, that shadows are coloured, and that Cezanne painted solid objects...