Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feelings were hurt when the Royal Society failed to publish some papers which he submitted. Therefore, his will directed that if his nephew should die childless, his fortune (much of which came to him from a halfbrother) should go "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
...Smithsonian administers the U. S. National Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, a group of astrophysical observatories, a laboratory for studying the effect of radiation on organisms, a service which officially exchanges governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane...
...will of Charles L. Freer of Detroit provided nearly $2,000,000 to manage the art collections which he had already donated and housed next door to the Institution head quarters. This has increased to $4,770,000 bringing the total of the Smithsonian's investments to $6,577,000. Of this, $1,000,000 is deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest is in stocks, bonds, mortgages, bank accounts. At year's end there was a cash balance of some $580,000. These are the Smithsonian's private finances. Although last week...
...gesture of international goodwill the English-Speaking Union presented Washington's Smithsonian Institution with a bronze bust of renowned 19th Century Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, From English scientists came a 1,500-word greeting. Scottish scientists parsimoniously cabled: "Felicitations...