Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eclipses) to his credit. He has had to travel 90,000 mi. to do it. Had he attended every instance of the sun's darkening since 1900 he would have a grand total of 68.1 min. and might have traveled as far as the eclipse-causing moon (238,857 mi.) and back again. It was with much satisfaction that he radioed to Science Service in Washington that, as director of the U. S. expedition to witness last week's solar eclipse at Niuafou Island (8,000 mi. from Washington) he had added 93.9 sec. more to his totality...
...Mitchell was satisfied but not enthusiastic with what he had seen when the moon's shadow fell upon Niuafou. He reported that the performance was only what he expected. When, however, his 112 photographs of the phenomenon were developed, Dr. Mitchell pronounced the expedition's success "unequaled in astronomical annals." Spectroscopic analyses of the incandescent gases which surround the sun showed a new wavelength which scientists had never known before. The visible spectrum ranges from 8,000 to 4,000 angstrom units.* Dr. Mitchell's wavelength was 6,770 angstrom units. The camera recorded what the astronomer...
Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, zealous worker for the Jewish Palestine Homeland, No. 1 U. S. rabbi, collapsed from nervous indigestion and overwork at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, N. Y., whence he had gone, for seclusion and rest. His attending physician announced that Rabbi Wise was "withdrawing indefinitely" from all duties, would probably not attend the Palestine conference at London...
...Bergen (Norway), Martha Ostenso arrived early in the U. S. She had been writing only two years when her Wild Geese won (1925) a $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review Prize. She is 30, unmarried. Other books: The Dark Dawn, The Mad Carews, The Young May Moon...
...Boston Herald that by your tie you shall be classified as Gentleman, Rounder, or Non-entity. Applicants for the process of re-Joycing must remember the sad case of the man who followed her from Paris to the Lido by way of Monte Carlo. As she naively remarks: "Moon-bright Venetian nights nearly made me think I loved him." Then one morning the poor fellow dared to approach her in white socks...