Word: ocean
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...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...
This floating ocean pasturage is forever changing. Where diatoms flourish one season, next season there may be few. Fish, birds, seals, whales follow the diatoms up and down the seas. When biologists have found the causes of the diatoms' mysterious shifts, they may be able to advise fishermen where the best catches can be netted, and how large future catches will be. Newly hatched fry often feed on diatoms before becoming carnivorous. Poor pasturage can mean survival of few fry, poor catches for fishermen...
...country. The Student Union has never been shy to point out his connection with the development of a fool-proof poison gas. At this time, when material aid from this country is necessary to keep England going, some agency to coordinate scientific progress on the two sides of the ocean is required. The Government seems to feel that President Conant is a fit man to fulfill this function...
Curiously enough after their month stay on the ocean between Santos, Brazil, and Boston, the blond sailors seemed to have been more impressed by a recent trip to Radcliffe than by all the glass flowers which chief host Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41 was able to provide for their edificaiton...
Biggest British gains of the week in East Africa came 1,150 miles south of Cheren in Italian Somaliland. South African forces covered 70 miles in two days, pushed into Chisimaio on the tepid Indian Ocean. Supported by the Royal Navy and the South African Air Force, these blistered fighters were all set to start up the 250-mile coastal road to the capital city of Magadiscio...