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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happens when a moon instead of a sun illumines the scene, is, at any rate, what definitely does not happen during the daytime. In this respect it would take a greater than I to distinguish any underirable effects of "nude mixed bathing" not possessed by our own beach customs. As far as the desirable effects of the Soviet style are concerned, I think anyone who has tried it will readily concede them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...offstage crockery crash which annually opens the Gridiron Club's dinner was explained this time as: "That's the American people vindicating Mr. Hoover at the polls." General fun-making included a song: "Oh, the moon's behind a cloud along the Wabash, for the Democrats are making all the hay; in the sycamores the G. O. P. is hiding, on the banks of the Wabash hell's to pay." President Hoover, present as No. 1 guest as usual, as usual addressed his news-gathering hosts, as usual eased his feelings in reply to their horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Like a crescent moon through a fog, the tenuous edge of a great physiological discovery appeared at Cornell University last week. Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, authoritative student of colloid chemistry, and Dr. G. Holmes Richter, research fellow, have been using an ultramicroscope on living sensory nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hard-Boiled Nerves | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

With so agile and active a head, New Era Motors seemed bound to have a dashing history. Some months after it was formed, it acquired the Ruxton patents for a front-wheel drive. Rights to manufacture Ruxtons were sold to Moon Motor Co. Also, William Crapo Durant sold to Moon rights to manufacture his American cotton picker, of which much has been said, not much seen. New Era Motors received 150,000 shares of Moon in the deal, soon decided to oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Era's End | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...think that romance has only to do with a summer night, a silvery moon, and a girl," said Advertising Manager Thrift. "And you may query, therefore, what romance has to do with Multigraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Graphic Merger | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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