Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth are grass and diatoms. About grass the shepherd, farmer and scientist know a great deal. About diatoms and dinoflagellates, which are microscopic sea plants (phytoplankton), until the last 30 or 40 years even the scientist has known little. Last week in The Scientific Monthly Marine Biologist Winfred Emory Allen of University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography surveyed his recent researches on diatoms in the Pacific Ocean...
Oceanographer Allen reports that in years of unusually warm Pacific water, diatoms were fewer. Diatoms flourish best in cold water, which contains more dissolved carbon dioxide than warm. Result is the well-known abundance of whales, seals, big fish in polar regions...
Swimmers in the free-style events will be Bob Sceery, Bill Jay, Mike Brody, Rex Ruppa, and Mal Rowe. Gordon Allen, Frank Olinger, and Coles Phinizy will be the butterfly artists, Allen Mathis, Jack Eberie, and Ruppa make up the medley team, and the dive will be taken care of by Herman Facio and George Bernard...
...Allen Trevaskis '42 and Winny White '42 of Kirkland House were confidently at work yesterday fixing a newly acquired refrigerator which had gone suddenly on the blink, when the smell of sulfur began to fill the room. Before a leak of poisonous sulfur dioxide from the icebox was suspected, the two were half asphixiated...
...welcomed them into the ranks of commissioned officers of the Corps. Forward stepped lean, leathery Colonel Archie Franklin Howard, raised his right hand. Said he: "Having been appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps of the U. S. -." The candidates, standing, one by one replied: "I, Alvis H. Allen -," "I, Harry B. Anderson -," "I, Maurice L. Appleton -." Down the rows it ran to the last man: "I, Charles B. Wuertenberger." Then, all together: ". . . do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic . . . bear true faith and allegiance...