Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vocal club will sing in addition to its former numbers "Mister Moon", a piece popular in musical programs...
Youthful Germans will learn astronomy from planetaria installed in eleven cities. Craning their necks from seats in the very centre of these imitation universes, they will watch their professors speed up eternity, compel sun, moon and stars to step lively, giving their classes in a few minutes demonstrations of changes that take hundreds of centuries. The gyroscopic motion of the earth (26,000 years) will be reduced to four minutes. The earth's swing around the sun (one year) will be crowded into 7.3 seconds or slowed down to seven minutes to make it easier...
...title, from making a most ambitious long distance flight. Mr. Condit, who sees elevating possibilities in the study of chemistry, has constructed an ingenious, gas-filled contrivance, which will project him permanently into the ether. For his destination, he has chosen rather than the conventional mars or the moon, the planet Venus where conditions are more nearly like those on earth, and more favorable for Professor Condit, whose doctors do not advise too great a change of climate...
Cancer (crab), June 22 to July 23, governed by the Moon. Those folk are clearly divided into two types. The active ones take a poetic view of the universe. They love to be made martyrs; ridicule makes them even more active, although they feel it personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe...
...traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence has been greatest. Thus he has quickened thought, provoked discussion, freshened ambition, and given many a youngster his first inkling of the value of clear thinking. In the process he has shaped the development of careers which, without his inspiration and interest, might never have reached their fullness...