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...Charming, swift with his comebacks, "wowing"' his audience with his retorts to every question. Had he fulfilled his desire of catching a "denizen of the deep?" No, indeed, but he had caught a "fish he did not recognize and was taking it back on ice to have the Smithsonian Institution tell him what it was. Where would the President cruise next? Off Tongue-of-Ocean.* To fish for sharp campaign words? "Barracuda words," retorted the President. At this capital reply, Sir Bede was stitched with laughter...
Developer of liquid fuel is Robert Hutchings Goddard, rangy, bald, 53, foremost U. S. rocketeer. Born in Worcester, Mass., where he became professor of physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
Abbot's Weather. When the National Academy met at Cambridge two years ago Charles Greeley Abbot, gaunt, assiduous secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed solar researcher, affirmed his belief, after long study, that weather on Earth tends to repeat itself in cycles of 23 years. Backing this up last week he showed the academicians how the 23-year cycle could be traced in the water levels of the Great Lakes, in yearly growth rings on trees, in the catch of codfish and mackerel, in deposits of clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle...
...five minutes the widow of "Wiley Post remained alone in a boxcar at Bartlesville, Okla., wept as she took leave of the crated Winnie May, off to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train, and this time the Special pulled out for good. The President settled back in his seat knowing that his 134-lb. sailfish, which would soon adorn the Smithsonian Institution, had not missed the train...