Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted resolution appointing Dwight W. Morrow regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
Some time ago Congress authorized the Patent Office to turn over models of old inventions to the Smithsonian Institution and give away or destroy all models not wanted by the museum. More than 2,000 requests for old models have been made. The longest request was from Thomas A. Edison-five closely typed pages listing all his early inventions. Henry Ford made a blanket request for all mechanical engineering devices not wanted by the Government...
...Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present, the boy was at one with the fine dead race that had set its city on a lofty rock-shelf of a box canyon. In later years...
...back, he founded the Society of American Taxidermists. After eight years of this sort of apprenticeship, he became Chief Taxidermist of the National Museum in Washington. He has hunted for Science in India, the Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent in the game conservation movement and advanced a plan for establishing game sanctuaries throughout the country-not a few large ones, but many medium sized ones-on land not well suited for other purposes, sanctuaries where wild life could multiply...
...piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural History. He taught Americans to fly during the War in the French school at Tours, "did a cross section of the Andes" for Johns Hopkins University and researches in Astronomy at Mt. Wilson Observatory. In addition...