Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the Robert Ripleys and Richard Halliburtons confidently affirmed the fact. At last the sober, scholarly Smithsonian Institution solemnly confirmed it: some fish do climb trees...
According to recent Smithsonian Bulletin 188, The Fresh-Water Fishes of Siam by the late Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Siamese fish frequently set out on overland treks. One capricious clarias batrachus, apparently bored with captivity, jumped out of its bowl, wriggled down two long corridors, was caught high-tailing it out the front door. A Danish scientist named Daldorff once saw a fish leering at him from five feet up an Indian palm tree. The Smithsonian's Smith, admitting that he had never personally seen a fish climb a tree, was sure that it can, and does, happen...
...before leaving for the Pacific, received several new attentions. At the University of New Mexico, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; in Manhattan, Sculptor Jo Davidson completed his bust of Pyle; in Washington, Sculptor Max Kalish prepared to do a statue of Pyle for the Smithsonian Institution's Living Hall of Washington TIME...
Died. W. S. ("Dad") Lively, 88, pioneer tintypist, daguerrotypist and photographer whose works have long been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution, builder of the world's onetime largest camera (11 by 6 by 5 ft.); in McMinnville. Tenn...
...over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching for a few minutes, broke into tears and hysteria. Hardened volcanologists, by their own account, have come away dazed and with knees shaking. Said Dr. William F. Foshag of the Smithsonian Institution: "It is, I believe, just as spectacular as Vesuvius ever was, and in its more violent phases it is better...