Word: abbot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dr. Abbot laid himself wide open to pooh-poohs by all professional weather forecasters. Like the almanac makers, he had made some broad weather forecasts, and he had projected them a full year ahead...
Ever since he was a boy on a New Hampshire farm, Charles Greeley Abbot has pooh-poohed the almanacs' weather forecasters. "We used to get a farmers' almanac," he says, "and it would say something like: 'About this time, look for a frost.' It didn't pin down the area, or the day, and people took it in three or four states. How in the world could it miss...
Most meteorologists believe that the weather is a product of the workings of the earth's atmospheric temperatures and pressures and its rotation. Abbot, while head of the Smithsonian Institution's -As-trophysical Observatory (1906-27) and then as the institution's secretary, got the idea that the weather on earth also reflects what is happening on the sun. Since his retirement in 1944, he has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...
...Theories. Looking down with a kind of tolerant detachment on U.S. Weather Bureau headquarters, Dr. Abbot has been working on two theories. The first: the earth's precipitation is related to the rotation of the sun. This theory is still in its infancy. His other theory, which Abbot considers just about full-grown: temperature variations (from the average, on given dates) are related to another specific solar cycle. Almost once every week (every 6.6456 days, to be exact), Abbot believes, the amount of heat and light radiated by the sun builds up to a maximum; then it declines...
FRESHMAN HOCKEY--Major Numerals 1952--George H. Abbot, William L. Bliss, Edward O. Brown, Dustin M. Burke, Theodore L. Cook, Jr., John J. Donelan, Jr., Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr., Morgan P. Hatch, Frederick K. Koch, Robert F. Lawson, John D. Lynch, Patrick O. Morrissey, George Q. Nichols, Richard H. Thomas, 3d, Carl W. Timpson, Jr., Robert D. Whoriskey, James H. Wykoff, Manager Howard S. King...