Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Droning off into the murky clouds above Lakehurst one morning last week, U. S. S. Akron left for a long, half-moon swing down through the Deep South and out to join the Fleet in the Pacific. As sound and airworthy as before her mishap last February, the Akron carried 81 persons on her second shakedown cruise, her first continental crossing. Lieut. Commander Rosendahl, covering the trip for the Press, reported the off watches "in their bunks, passing Mother's Day quietly indeed...
Jupiter, largest of the Sun's nine planets and heavier than all the other eight planets combined, has nine satellites. Large astronomical telescopes have difficulty in discerning five of them. Two others are each as big as Earth's Moon. The two remaining are each half as large again. They surpass Planet Mercury in size. Names given these four are Callisto, Io, Europa, Ganymede. During last week's performance they rapidly displayed all the relations of satellite to planet...
...major editorial problems. It called for writing of a most vivid and original kind. It also necessitated the complete elimination of bias and prejudice. This new historian must have perspective and complete objectivity. His attitude must be, as it has since been defined, that of the Man in the Moon at the end of the current century...
There is Professor Fay walking in the garden with the Kaiser talking in gentle epigram under the moon. There is Professor Langer who starts all Revolutions on a hot night when there were festoons in the windows and sees all Europe marching while Bismarck in the corner beats the time on a massive drum. There are the shuffling feet and hunching shoulders of Professor Webster when Victoria hearkens to the voice of "her angel" as he climbs out on the golden bar of heaven. There is Professor Baxter addressing his class, even as though they were the Senate...
...walk together laughing in the darkness. It's when young boys go shouting up the street a older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press, when the man in G-32 borrows a car and goes to Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden cartwheel, and every breeze a zephyr. It's when every man is sick of four walls and ceiling; the time when the last Victorian wrote that "man he must go with a woman which women cannot understand," and Tennyson asked, "Ah, why should life all labor...