Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence. Shouts of "Long live the Mufti! Down with British rule in Palestine!" were raised by Mohammedan crowds at Bombay and Calcutta who know no more of the rights and wrongs of Palestine than of those, if any, in the moon...
...opening performance of the country's first planetarium. A planetarium is a complex instrument for reproducing on an elaborate scale the motions of the 5,400 stars visible to man, and the planets of the solar system. It is a simple matter to note the motion of the moon and sun because they are large, travel rapidly relative to man. But the stars are so deliberate that in a planetarium the universe is speeded up as much as 4,000,000 times its normal rate to make star changes apparent. Last week Professor Philip Fox, who resigned from...
Lazy Lou'siana Moon and Should I (Columbia) - With this one the Rondoliers take the male-quartet prize for the month. The mood is prevailingly sentimental...
Noting this, astronomers at first concluded that the moon was off schedule but subsequent checks on other bodies proved earth to be at fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...
Author Maugham has written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...