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Abby-Delight was eldest of a big New England brood. Her father, Samuel Flagg, ruled his family with the same dour thrift he used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually...
...rocky Sinai Peninsula. For that reason-and because the atmosphere thereabouts is almost dustless, almost hazeless-rather than for holy associations, the Smithsonian Institution decided that the top of St. Catherine was the best accessible place in the entire Eastern Hemisphere for a solar observatory. Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot last week announced that building will start at once...
Weather on Earth depends upon radiations from the Sun. Secretary Abbot is certain that if meteorologists know enough facts about the solar radiations they can make long-time predictions about Earth's weather. Years of solar observations have demonstrated definite cycles in the Sun's emanations, have made possible rough predictions of long summers, cold winters, good radio reception...
...site for a solar observatory must be high, dry and dustless. Best place found on earth is Mt. Montezuma, Chile. Excellent is Table Mountain, Calif. The Smithsonian's Washington station where Dr. Abbot works is hazy, merely geographically convenient. Until last year the Institution maintained an observatory on Mt. Brukkaros in southwest Africa. Dusty desert winds made that place untenable...
...which belongs to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine ten miles down the massif. The uneven chapel floor shows the impress, say the monks, of St. Catherine who lay there emitting light 300 years after Emperor Maximinus had her head hacked off.* In this same vicinity where Dr. Abbot's men will measure the Sun, men long before Abram left Ur used to worship the Moon. Sinai was then the Land of Sin the moon...