Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Frank Eugene Lutz, 64, since 1921 the American Museum of Natural History's Curator of Entomology; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Lutz gathered some 2,000,000 specimens of insects for his museum, discovered:1) that insects respond to ultraviolet light beyond human vision, can thus be trapped if harmful; 2) that the male cricket pitches his woo at the third D above high...
Making his first appearance here since he awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Winston Churchill three months ago President James Bryant Conant will speak Monday night to an invited gathering at the Fogg Museum...
...primarily for the members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and several associated schools, but deans and chairmen of University departments will also be invited. President Conant will talk on the future of learning in America. The meeting begins at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Museum auditorium...
...President, thus architecting a room in history for each of the past Presidents, is designing his own place beside his 31 predecessors. As future visitors to that Presidential museum gaze at the mementos of Franklin Roosevelt, they will be well aware that he was an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary consciousness of history and of his part in it. But those future visitors may be able to answer with more assurance than the citizens of 1943 the question: How well and truly did President Roosevelt and the American people carry on the great heritage of the Republic...
...photogenic subject to begin with: the ageless, sun-soaked ruins of the Nile Valley. Some of Photographer Hoyningen-Huene's dramatically lighted pictures were made in Egypt, some among the monumental Egyptian sculptures now in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the book's more striking pictures is a restatement of an old theme: Instead of snapping the Pyramid of Cheops, Huene photographs its huge triangular shadow partially blacking the gleaming modern town at its base...