Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watercolor painting by John Singer Sargent Hon. '16 has just been presented to the Fogg Museum by Sir Joseph Duveen...
...painting, known as 'In the Tydol" is very similar to a series of Sargent Watercolors now in the Boston Museum...
...Joseph Henry published reports and memoirs for people who had investigated this and that. He exchanged these publications for similar literature published abroad. He persuaded the Library of Congress to care for all the pamphlets, manuscripts and books he thus accumulated. Similarly he persuaded Congress to build a national museum to house all the specimens of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms that poured in upon...
...beauty shows, rodeos, aquariums, stockyards. It has football stadia, fisticuffing gardens, chambers of horror, mad- houses. Also zoos, museums, 5-&-10-cent stores, a diamond horseshoe, divorce courts, a Congress and other exhibits. But, according to Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural History, one thing the U. S. has not got for its people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium...
...many-jointed, mirrored tube for peering down windpipes, into bronchi; invented by Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia, who last week received the $10,000 prize and gold medal given yearly by onetime Editor Edward William Bok (Ladies' Home Journal) to worthy Philadelphians. Dr. Jackson is building up a museum of objects that he has pulled out of lungs and stomachs-buttons, coins, tacks, safety pins, nails, small hardware...