Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it, complained Mark Twain. Last week, however, somebody did. Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, grey, 72-year-old Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced the most important advance in weather forecasting since...
...Knockout. A dignified, hawk-faced little man (5 ft. 5 in.) of 55, who takes his museum as seriously as if it were the Smithsonian, boxing's foremost expert and historian is no boxer himself. He fought his last fight at the age of 14 in a Boys' Club exhibition and was knocked out in the first round. He has revered the ring ever since. As boxing writer and sports editor on the old New York Press and on Munsey papers, and since 1922 as editor of Ring, he has seen 10,000 fights, picked up first-hand...
Lieut. General Mark Clark's pants-the ones he lost in the water on his melodramatic sneak-trip to North Africa (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942)-are going to the Smithsonian Institution. The General's wife, who will present them, reported in Pittsburgh that they had been rescued from an African beach and ultimately returned to the General, who discovered they had shrunk and sent them home...
...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
...Foundation members include such famed scholars as Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Yale's Geographer Ellsworth Huntington, Columbia's Economist Wesley Clair Mitchell, the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott...