Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of his time on his northern New England farm. In 1929 he traveled on foot and muleback Cortes' route in Mexico, to get first-hand impressions for Conquistador, a first-magnitude effort and suc cess. Other poems: The Happy Marriage, The Pot of Earth, Streets in the Moon, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, New Found Land...
...pale full moon turned rufous early one morning last week. The earth had eclipsed it. The moon and earth have no light of their own. Both reflect light from the sun. The moon looks yellow because it has no atmosphere to screen the sun's rays and hide its general brownness.- (The earth's atmosphere makes the earth shine blue and 40 times more brightly than the moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow...
...Professor V. S. Forbes of Cambridge University thinks that the moon is not dead & cold, that radioactive substances keep it warm. †This August's will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the U. S. until 1979. Observers in New England and southeastern Canada will see totality for 1.5 min. Maximum possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7.5 min. During a total eclipse the moon's shadow slides across the earth at from 1,060 to 5,000 m. p. h., depending upon its distance from the Equator and the sun's position...
...selections rendered at all concerts will be: Banjo Club: "Campus Memories", "Clicquot", "American Patrol", and "Bullfrog Blues"; Mandolin Club: "Blue Kentuck Moon", "Dark Eyes", "Volga Boatman", and "Selections from Gilbert and Sullivan"; Vocal: "Gay Nineties Medley", "Keep in the Middle of the Road", "Bonnie Dundee", "Australia", and "Johnny Harvard". Three presentations will be made in the way of special numbers; a violin solo, a guitar quartet, and a magician...
Robert Esnault-Pelterie, oldtime aeronaut of France, best known for his interest in shooting a rocket to the moon, sued Chance Vought Corp. last year on the ground that every plane it had built was an infringement of his patents. His reason: each of the planes was controlled in flight by a single stick ("joystick") operating ailerons and elevator, which he claimed to have invented. A victory in the Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault...