Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line. "Who is second," she asked...
Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...
Fortunately, these relics of an attitude that divorced worldly amusements from any contact with religion or religious men are now in the class of museum pieces. In the minds of modern men the jarring elements in religion and daily amusement have become reconciled into harmony. There has arisen a recognition of how each may supplement the other...
This picture, after the death of Painter Ryder in 1917, was hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan. In 1924, it was bought by the Feragil Galleries, in Manhattan. The Feragil Galleries sold it, for a price not made public but estimated at $18,000, to the Cleveland Museum of Art. There it will hang from now on, a good painting and a ghoulish warning to all reckless sports...
...problem of the disposition of part of the old Fogg Art Museum was definitely settled when 12 new rooms were completed yesterday in the rear of the Museum. The lecture hall will continue to be used by the College, and the front rooms will be used by the School of Architecture...