Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willis Abbot, Managing Editor of the earnest Christian Science Monitor, defended his paper's policy of publishing no crime news. He contended that crime news only served to produce more crime...
...less heat than usual, it has now returned to normal. It is hoped to be able to learn the periods of fluctuations in the sun's heat in order to make "long distance" weather predictions. Attempts of that nature are already going forward in Chile.-Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, Smithsonian Institution...
...Abbot '55, resident of Cambridge...
Died. The Right Reverend Leo Haid, 75, Bishop of North Carolina, Dean of the Catholic Hierarchy of America, Abbot of Belmont Cathedral Abbey; at Charlotte, N. C. Ordained in 1872, Bishop Haid was the oldest Catholic prelate in America...
Just what is happening to the sun is meat for speculation, but most authorities are agreed that there are unusual doings up there. Last year, Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institute, announced his measurements of the diminution in the sun's heat. His results have been independently corroborated by Herbert J. Browne, a Washington meteorologist, who finds that the solar constant, the unit of measurement of solar heat, has declined from a normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over...