Word: heilner
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Last winter, El Nino was delayed a trifle. It did not reach Eucador until the second week in January. Dr. Murphy and his companion, Van Campen Heilner, went out in launches to meet it, measure its speed, density, temperature and so on. They noted that the sea's heat rose more than 60° that one day. Schools of flying fish appeared, shoals of hammerhead sharks, flocks of seabirds. Then, from what took place on shore, they noted that El Nino had come in vaster volume, gone farther south then ever before in history...