Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final and is not subject to review by any other tribunal." But grain traders agreed last week that the event was only the first round of the best knockdown & dragout speculators' battle that has taken place behind the U. S. farmer's barn in many a harvest moon...
Since the silent-film days the cinema has kept fairly close to earth. To figure out how men in other worlds might look was, to the vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
...sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It was when shouting ragamuffins go roller skating up the street, and older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press in, when a roommate borrows the car to go to Wellesley, when the debutantes read poetry, when the moon is a soft, golden cartwheel...
Quentin Roosevelt started the program off by doing a little detective work with songs, pointing out how "The Old Spinning Wheel" came from "Boula Boula," and how "Oh Mama, that Moon is Here Again" was derived from "The Volga Boatman." Lewis's "That Man Coolidge," a monologue, was given by Charles H. Stearns as the next thing on the program...
...California showed apparent fluctuations in the speed of light up to 12 mi. per sec. Physicists promptly raised a hue & cry, which was quieted when the fluctuations were ascribed to that old standby, "experimental error," or to "disturbing influences of unknown origin"-i.e., movements of the earth, the moon, the tides. More recently there has been talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time too long to permit detection. By last week the talk of inconstant...