Word: lunar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard astronomers had no luck in trying to spot through clouded skies, the lunar eclipse which occurred last Saturday afternoon...
...fragments. Stuffy astronomers were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff in a rocket ship, sound effects, landing in a lunar crater-were even given "tickets" for the voyage...
...Chinese lunar calendar each year is designated by the name of an animal. Last week the Chinese celebrated the end of the year of the tiger, the beginning of the year of the hare and the 592nd day of their war with Japan. At Chungking, China's capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince...
...right away, if the necessary funds (about $1,250,000) were forthcoming. U. S. rocketeers, a more conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...Though lunar eclipses are less frequent than solar eclipses, more people see them because the darkened moon is visible from a whole hemisphere of earth. Totality of this week's lunar eclipse lasted 1 hr. 23 min. For a brief interval on the Atlantic seaboard a remarkable phenomenon was on view. The moon rose, fully eclipsed, six minutes before sunset. Thus for that time both bodies were visible where there was a clear view from horizon to horizon. Explanation...