Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the three weeks the City of Flint was in Bergen harbor, busiest of her crew was Junior Third Mate Carl C. Ellis of Newtonville, Mass. When he finally sailed away, he had the promise of 22-year-old Norwegian Ruth Englesen to marry him, if he can arrange for her entry...
...Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been preparing for war against Russia ever since his Government refused to let him lead a Finnish White Army against Petrograd in 1918. To his implacable hatred of everything Red may be attributed some of Stalin's nervousness over the security of the U. S. S. R., which was a remote cause of the present Russo-Finnish war. To it Finland certainly owes her continued independence, for the defense tactics that have so amazed the Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned...
...though their country has been ruled by both Sweden and Russia, were never subdued by anybody. The first Mannerheim of record was a Swedish merchant named Marheim, of Dutch or German descent, who died in 1667. His grandson picked up a title and his son, who was named Carl Erik Mannerheim, moved to Finland as a major in an infantry regiment and was condemned to death (later pardoned) for participating in an officers' revolt against the Crown. The next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended...
Conceding the Gymnasts an upset victory in the medley, they must then place their main reliance on Harry Rawstrom, in the 220 and 440, Art Beck in the 60, Carl Condon in the dive, Don Lotz in the century, Gir Milligan and Ed Shea in the backstroke, and Archie Pincombe in the breastroke for enough points to carry the meet into the free relay...
...Carl David Anderson of Caltech announced the existence of an intermediate particle, apparently created about ten miles up in the air by cosmic ray impacts, and its existence was also vouched for by Street & Stevenson of Harvard. The particle was variously called the "X-particle," the "heavy electron"' (a misnomer, since it was not an electron), the "barytron" (also a misnomer, because it means "heavy particle," whereas the particle is lighter than a proton). A name meaning "intermediate particle" was clearly in order, and so practically all U. S. physicists now call it the "mesotron" or "meson...