Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offspring of the Greek gods Hermes and Aphrodite was bi-sexual Hermaphrodites. The Egyptian moon deity, too, was hermaphroditic, and one Biblical commentator declares: "When the Holy One . . . created the first man, he created him a hermaphrodite." In spite of the antiquity of man's interest in the subject, until last week there was still a place for an exhaustive clinical study of hermaphroditism and what to do about it surgically, which has now been filled by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young's Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases (Williams & Wilkins...
...railroad issues tagged along, U. S. Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like glee for the first time in many a moon, had justification for holding that sweet are the uses of electricity...
Rapidly the Vagabond became ruffled and confused and irritable. Many months past, beneath the light of a summer moon, he had persuaded a West Virginia lass to accompany him to the sport event of the autumn. Then November twentieth did not seem more than a week away. But that was then. Now, the thoughts in his mind assembled in one spiritual ball reverberating with excited words: he would be obliged to take one girl and two relatives to a game which he wished fervently he could watch alone. Contemplating a sudden change of name, or flight, or amuesia anything...
...wanted to compare thee to the moon, but the moon only shines at night...
Ramadan begins with the first slivery appearance of a new moon (this year Nov. 5), ends with the next moon. During the days of Ramadan - a day begins the moment it is possible to distinguish a white thread from a black one by natural light - no good Moslem eats, drinks or has intercourse with women. Fanatic Moslems believe that their fast is broken if they swallow even their spittle, or let a trickle of water into their throats when cleaning their teeth. Especially holy are the last ten days of Ramadan, during which falls the "Night of Glory" (or "Power...