Word: moon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land at its base was known as the Enderta. Through the same telescope, when the clouds cleared, could be seen Alaji, another mountain about 30 miles further on. These two peaks were main pegs in Ethiopia's defense. At 8 a. m., with a round moon still high in the sky, operations started with a short advance all along the line. This was to be a white man's battle. Regulars and Blackshirts led the advance, with the native Askaris, on which Fascist de Bono had leaned so heavily last year, forming the reserve. It was also...
With the most lavish and expensive swimming pool in any Caribbean country and with one of the best layouts for daytime sport and moon-drenched romantic evenings in Latin America, "Father Snare" still busies himself with earnest works appropriate to one who last week celebrated his Silver Jubilee. Few caddies are so pious as his. Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd...
...When the Moon conjuncts Uranus, that signifies an assassination or attempt at assassination. The Moon strikes the blow, and the presence of Uranus indicates firearms. Uranus governs everything mechanical. Astrology is a perpetual progression. The Egyptians based their predictions upon experience and observation; why shouldn't we do more? Therefore, immediately upon my return to Paris in September I went to see Louis Barthou, with whom I was especially well acquainted, as M. Barthou was an ardent Hugophile and I had been presented to him by Gustave Simon, Hugo's testamentary executor. So our ideas on literature coincided...
...that it knocked his compass needle askew, left Pilot Hughes dependent upon maps and city lights below. He recognized the lights of Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis at hour intervals. Near Indianapolis a tailwind lifted his speed to 295 m.p.h., carried him past Columbus in 35 minutes. There the moon came up, gave him a definite guidepost to the Atlantic Coast, which he reached in another 105 minutes...
...over an hour, from 7:58 p. m. to past 9 o'clock, the battle went to the dragon, until it seemed that he had indeed consumed the moon. Then a little sliver of moon swung into sight. The peasants redoubled their firing. The dragon yielded up still more moon. At 10:21 the moon once more rode high and bright over Islam. The peasants, on whom Dictator Kamal Ataturk has forced such civilized behavior as wearing derbies and unveiling their women, felt better...