Word: smithsonian
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...owls are still taking advantage of one of the Smithsonian's smaller towers...
...Roger Tory Peterson's Birds Over America, he says . . . "The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has issued instructions that no one is to clean up the tower. It is to be left just as it is-a permanent haven for owls...
...TIME [April 25] I read this: "[Dr. C. G. Abbot] has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...
...Cigar Institute of America offered the Smithsonian Institution an antique: an 85-year-old cigar (unsmoked...
...named the 55 dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average of y.i°F. Dr. Abbot had this forecast locked in the Smithsonian's safe...