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Solar Prophet. Studying the sun as a variable star, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution has found a number of cyclic variations in the amount of sunshine bathing the earth which affect its weather. Last week he announced finding a new short cycle of 16 days. This is closely correlated with wide temperature swings on earth - swings of 15 and even 25°. The pattern of temperature change following the 16-day cycle varies from place to place and from month to month, but Dr. Abbot believes that the value of 16-day temperature prediction to industry...
From: Stephen Abbot, Attorney at Law (not practicing), farm owner and manager; farms located in central Illinois and northeast Utah...
...STEPHEN ABBOT...
Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot, architects for the new Littauer School of Public Administration, besides having a remarkably metrical name, are careful workmen. For weeks as the great gray structure reared itself, members of the Philips Brooks House staff across the street wondered why battalions of men periodically scrubbed all its stone surface...
...believe, on the very verge of recovery from the drought of the last 46-year period," said Dr. Abbot. "We have no expectation of another one of such great consequence until 1975, although . . . there will be a minor one during the decade...