Word: jove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bean five days since the Cambridge (England by Jove) crew first began practice on the Housatonic, and ever since dispatches have been coming up from New Haven claiming the Britishers are better than good...
...Cancro Joyned." Astronomy helped Princeton Dean Robert K. Root settle one matter that had long tantalized Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians...