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There being no more comets or eclipses scheduled for this summer, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, left Washington last week for Mount Wilson, Calif, (near Los Angeles), to pursue what has been his special study for many years, the heat of stars. Dr. Abbot has climbed the world's most arid mountains to study the sun's heat. Subordinates of his are at present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than...
...passage through universal vacancy, but when the radiations enter Earth's heavy atmosphere they are dispersed, feebled and as difficult to detect and measure as a whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that a part of it is constructed of flies' wings; an instrument ten times as sensitive as Dr. Abbot...
...longer suspicious, went to Editor Daudet's cell and released him. M. Daudet burst into tears, kissed M. le Directeur Catry, wrung his hand, and rushed out into the street to mount a taxi. Even the taxi driver was a Royalist in disguise...
...states, and two provinces of Canada. It will not be a mere rubber-necking tour, for Dr. William M. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the expedition and of Southwestern's biology department, has promised to instruct as well as point out. The students will visit Mount Vernon, Va., and Bunker Hill, Mass., as well as the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Wherever possible, they plan to camp along the roadside, to sleep on air mattresses in pup tents. Mrs. Goldsmith, head of Southwestern's home economics department, will supervise the cooking...
Dazzle, a magnificent chestnut gelding of the Vesperland Stables, was pronounced Champion Polo Mount in the leading event of the show...