Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower to read my thesis again and, very happy, so to bed, the moon shining in my face...
...Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department busied itself writing a note to express the grief of the Roosevelt Administration at the death of Premier Okada...
Women bring a quality to writing that men would have to go to the moon to find. At their worst, they are poor imitations of he-hacks; at their best they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept...
Infant though it be, the science of rocketry is not confined solely to crack-brained dreams of launching a howling projectile on its way to the moon. Rockets, in fact, have passed one definite milestone: they have traveled at 700 m.p.h., faster than any other self-propelled mechanism. The moon idea grew out of the solid fact that, unlike airplanes, rockets do not need air either for support or propulsion since they are pushed along by self-generated recoil forces...
...launched from his 60-ft. tower, Dr. Goddard's latest model, a twelve-footer weighing 140 Ib. with fuel, has reached speeds of 700 m.p.h., heights around 7,500 ft. Its fall is protected by an automatic parachute. Dr. Goddard, who hates to stir up gaudy talk of moon flights, announces his present objective as reaching 50 miles into the stratosphere "to obtain meteorological, astronomical, magnetic and other data of altitudes greatly exceeding those which can be reached by balloon...