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Three yips and a yipe! Yes, sir, the season's open! Amid loud cheers and yells, Harvard's Polar Bear Club broke the ice late Sunday evening at its first official outing of the year--a swim in the ocean at Revere Beach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Face Freezing Foam For First Frigid Frolic | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Pasturage | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Invented and manufactured by J. M. Cohen of Potomac Chemical Co., Tectyl does two things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tectyl | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Professor of Polar Geography was installed at Oslo University to acquaint Norwegians with their new colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Lebensraum | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Polar bears have been seen swimming 300 miles from land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Believe-lt-Or-Nots | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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