Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ward's whole collection, bronzes included, has come into the possession of the Smithsonian Institution and may be seen at the National Museum, Washington. If one cannot visit them there, an interesting appreciation of his work by W. H. Holmes, illustrated by photographs, appeared in the September issue of Art and Archaeology...
...seems now that neither of these ideas were correct. Harrison G. Dyar, an entomologist of the Smithsonian Institute comes forward with the answer. He was the sapper of those mysterious passages. Weary with his day's toil Mr. Dyar found pleasure in donning overalls, throwing a pick and shovel over his shoulder, and digging tunnels beneath the most exclusive residential sections of Washington, the capital...
...months ago, those devising it felt they had thought of something that had never been done before; two weeks ago, they were surprised to see a news-dispatch from Washington saying that in that city an association of leading engineers had been formed to erect (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution) a great museum of engineering progress in transportation, and industry. The prize design may be chosen for Washington. It differed from all others in one feature. The great steel shaft over the central portion of the 'building made an integral part of the design, and might be useful...
...name and membership the National Museum of Engineering and Industry, Inc., already exists. But it has no home. Its sponsors now propose to erect one on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Its present headquarters are in the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan...
Just what is happening to the sun is meat for speculation, but most authorities are agreed that there are unusual doings up there. Last year, Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institute, announced his measurements of the diminution in the sun's heat. His results have been independently corroborated by Herbert J. Browne, a Washington meteorologist, who finds that the solar constant, the unit of measurement of solar heat, has declined from a normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over...