Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...
...found many traces of an extinct culture higher than the present Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...
There being no more comets or eclipses scheduled for this summer, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, left Washington last week for Mount Wilson, Calif, (near Los Angeles), to pursue what has been his special study for many years, the heat of stars. Dr. Abbot has climbed the world's most arid mountains to study the sun's heat. Subordinates of his are at present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than...
Sirs: That's all applesauce about no flies or mosquitoes where the Coolidges are vacationing because it's above the 3,500-foot elevation (TIME, June 20, p. 5, last col.). There's a big grizzly mounted and some pictures in the Smithsonian Institution that prove it. The pictures show where the bear was killed by Pete Peterson, Cascade mountains, elevation, 7,000. The pictures also show on the grizzly, not 15 minutes dead, FLIES-LOTS OF 'EM. Farther east you go, the worse the flies are. As for mosquitoes, they...