Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prentiss; 1899--Arthur Adams, George F. Baker; 1900--Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Dwight F. Davis; 1901--James Lawrence, Robert E. Goodwin; 1902--Barrett Wendell, Jr., Robert J. Bulkley; 1903--Roger Ernst, Monte M. Lemarin; 1904--James Jackson, Arthur A. Ballantine; 1905--Ogden L. Mills, Walter S. Gifford; 1906--F. Abbot Goodhue, Philip Ketchum; 1907--Winthrop W. Aldrich, Robert L. Bacon; 1908--Rudolph Altrecchi, Samuel E. Morison; 1909--Elliott C. Cutler, William G. Wendell; 1910--Roger Amery, Clarence C. Little; 1911--Herbert Jacques, Charles E. Denlap; 1912--Hugh J. Gaddis, Robert T. Fisher; 1913--Samuel M. Folton, George C. Cutler; 1914--Junius...
...long view of all this was last week presented by the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot. Said he: "The North Central States can expect no appreciable letup in the Drought before 1938. A rain cycle is indicated by records of the water levels of the Great Lakes since 1837. . . . The cycle in the North Central farming and grazing zone has a 46-year swing, which is double the cycle for most areas on the globe. After this Drought there should not be another major dry period in the area until somewhere around...
Forty-six years ago, bearing out Scientist Abbot's theory, the U. S. corn crop was a measly...
Weather on earth depends upon radiations from the sun. Dr. Abbot receives in his Washington office telegraph and cable reports of the sun's condition as recorded at three solar observatories which the U. S. maintains on Table Mountain, Calif.; Mount St. Catherine, Egypt; Mount Montezuma, Chile. Last week he told the scientists in Rochester that he expected $200,000 from Congress to erect seven more solar observatories. President Roosevelt had written a longhand letter to Senator Joseph Robinson urging the appropriation, said Dr. Abbot...
...have to be very careful about the observers I send out to the stations," commented Dr. Abbot. "They must have tact, trustworthiness, a ready knowledge of physics, and be able to get along with each other. For they must remain practically isolated from the world for three years at a time. That is a bit too long and something will have to be done about keeping them at their stations for shorter times...