Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floors of the three-story house, formerly owned by the Elizabeth w. Storer Estate, will be converted into eight or nine offices and an electronics laboratory, Vaughan Harmon, a spokesman for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, added...
...Navy failed last night in an attempt to orbit its second Vanguard satellite, the Smithsonian Observatory in Cambridge announced last night...
Announcing the permanent loan of a 19th century dress, Washington's Smithsonian museum casually dropped a small footnote to American history. In its statement, the Smithsonian said that the gown once belonged to Dolley (not Dolly) Madison, wife of the nation's fourth President, justified the spelling by recent research at the University of Chicago on the James Madison papers, proving that the famed White House hostess had indeed used the "e" herself. Among references due for a change: the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which calls her Dorothy, the Encyclopedia Americana, which lists her as Dolly...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory yesterday issued an appeal that all those who witnessed the final revolutions of Sputnik II send full reports of their observations to the Observatory. The information is needed because the satellite's behavior in its final stages indicated that further studies of air density at high altitudes should be made...
...four American satellites still orbiting the world are given from months to 100 years by Smithsonian astrophysicists...