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...acre Honey Creek Plantation, which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied Harbin: "No, sir, that old Abbot looks like he could pray me into Hell in five minutes...
...Trappists came to densely Protestant Georgia by daycoach from the largest of the three Trappist monasteries in the U.S. - Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Louisville, Ky. All were bearded, except the abbot (he alone can shave), the youngest was 30, the oldest 56. They arrived at night in torrents of rain, went to bed on the floor of the large two-story, white brick barn...
Monkish Learning. Still not sure that his theory was proved, Dr. Abbot learned that Jesuit monks at an observatory in Spain had photographed, every day from 1910 to 1937, certain calcium clouds on the sun's surface. Dr. Abbot compared measurements of fluctuation in the area of these clouds with his own measurements of solar heat and weather. To his great delight, all three showed almost exactly the same pattern of ups & downs...
...confident that he had a workable system, Dr. Abbot told the Weather BuReau last March that on 175 specified days during 1943 it was likely to rain in Washington, and that rainfall on those days would be 166% of normal. Actual figure at year's end: 158%. He also correctly predicted the three days of heaviest Washington rainfall in January and February this year. Once, consulted by an Army engineer, he predicted that during a three-month period rainfall in the Tennessee Valley would be 84 to 87% of normal...
Actual rainfall: 87%. Looking far ahead, Dr. Abbot forecasts great droughts in the Northwest in 1975 and 2020 which will seriously lower the level of the Great Lakes...