Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife is a concert singer), Author Young also composes, has written music for the Songs of Robert Bridges. Mild-mannered, quiet, spare, with a pipe usually in position above an unaggressive chin, Francis Brett Young looks his part: a quite successful, quite good English author. Other books: The Crescent Moon, My Brother Jonathan, The Redlakes...
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for its sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. The rosary slips through fingers. Mary. Queen of Heaven, stands radiant, "clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, on her head a crown of twelve stars." Ora pro nobis goes the cry, through centuries. Grateful millions venerate the Blessed Virgin, this year especially, for they celebrate the 1,500th anniversary of the dogmatic, final declaration, by the Church, that Mary was the veritable Mother...
Also in the U. S. are a large number of students of space-flight who have formed the American Interplanetary Society. At their meetings they discuss current experiments, also proposed flights to the moon, to Mars, to Saturn, and regular passenger service across the Atlantic at 30 mi. altitudes in three hours, two hours, even a half hour. Most working rocketeers (unlike the superenthusiastic Esnault-Pelterie who foresees a trip to the moon in 20 years) are wary about making predictions...
Sabre-toothed tigers, the Piltdown man, the man in the moon, Depression, shooting stars, drugs, Element No. 87, the universe and an abstruse geometrical concept christened Rac-these and other matters were discussed & debated last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them...
...above startling laymen from time to time, several years ago Professor Pickering guessed that on some parts of the moon crops grew twice a day. He also suggested that the moon was flung into space from the present site of the Pacific Ocean; that if that had not happened, the earth would now be peopled exclusively by deep sea fish. If anyone has $10,000,000 to spare, Professor Pickering offers to show him how to signal Mars...