Word: moon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening a series of lectures on the earth and the moon, Dr. H. T. Stetson gave a clear explanation of lunar tides, both in the ocean and in the atmosphere itself, in a lecture given at the Harvard Observatory last evening...
...Loring B. Andrews '25 will give the second lecture, "The Moon and the Stars in Navigation," on Friday, and this will be followed by another lecture by Dr. Stetson, who speaks Saturday of this week on "The Earth, Radio, and the Moon." "Metoors and Meteor Craters on Earth and Moon," by Fletcher Watson, assistant in Astronomy, is scheduled for Monday, February 11, and Dr. Carol A. Rieke will deliver the last, "Theories of the Origins of the Earth and Moon" on Tuesday, February...
This special series will be held in the lecture hall of Building D of the Observatory, and if the weather permits, opportunity will be given for telescopic observation of the moon and stars. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff. Tickets of admission, for one night only, may be obtained in advance by sending a self addressed envelope to the Dowse Institute Lectures, in care of the Observatory...
...words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four big embryonic leaves. A moon was suspended in the sky like a bruised alligator pear...
...scrimmage with his dowdy wife, he eats bananas all day long, wears dirty golf clothes and is a sponger by habit. Mr. Baxley is known as "The Rajah" to his brother-in-law, Mr. Radfern (Edmund Gwenn). John Bull himself, Radfern has a face like the man in the moon, a way of smacking his lips over ham and cheese, an air of honest living. An established householder in Laburnum Grove, Shooters Green, a North London suburb, George Radfern seems as respectable a citizen as George V until he blandly informs the family circle that for years he has been...