Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congress has already provided a site for a National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Smithsonian Institution has commissioned Charles Adams Platt to design the building (TIME, April 21). Last week, Congress was formally asked to appropriate $2,500,000 for the building-about one-third of what it will cost. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts did the asking...
...Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year on the La Brea ranch, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution, recently punctured all discoveries hitherto as not more than 5,000 years old. A human deposit of the late glacial period, found near Trenton, N. J., however, is considered genuine by many paleontologists. Dr. Hill and his colleagues are men of excellent standing. The location of the fossils might...
...Salmon River country, south of Lewiston, Idaho, a skeleton of a woman more than eight feet in height was discovered in a cliff. This also seemed to belong to an herbivorous race. Scientists are reserved in their judgment until it has been examined by Smithsonian experts...
...design the National Gallery of Art, for which Congress recently donated a site, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have selected Charles Adams Platt. Mr. Platt contemplates a two-story structure of granite to house the nation's $5,000,000 art collection...
...Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution (TIME, May 5) made a solar cooker at Mt. Vernon, Calif., which so concentrated the rays of the sun that the temperature of the oven was 175° Centigrade. Sad to say, the oil circulating system sprang a leak, soaked the insulation with oil, and the heat set fire to and destroyed the machine...