Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk, I do things." This recent boast by President Quezon, to a crowd in front of his handsome Malacanan Palace, referred to the fact that, during his absence in the U. S. and Europe, he was running the Philippines from the U. S. by radio telephone messages to his moon-faced little secretary Jorg Vargas, the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington had approved the constitutionality of giving the Philippines the $50,000,000 (100,000,000 pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which the U. S. imposed in 1934. So President Quezon, although he bitterly opposed...
...LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN-Robert Burnett-Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing...
Major Stevens' important results were unexpected and essentially accidental. As one of the many field workers in the Hayden Planetarium-Grace expedition, directed by Dr. Clyde Fisher, of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, Major Stevens was primarily interested in getting high enough to photograph the spectacular course of the moon's shadow as it raced along the earth and cloud tops. His observations were made near Lima, Peru, in a Pan American Grace Airways plane...
...went down behind the rolling meadows of Kentucky one evening last week and an almost full moon sailed up over Maysville. Verl Stinchcomb, Maysville Country Club professional, started out to play nine holes of nocturnal golf, with two club members tagging along. The flight of a golf ball cannot be followed even in full moonlight so Golfer Stinch comb had to keep his shots straight down the fairway in order to find his ball. He made a birdie and an eagle, lost no balls, finished with a nine-hole score of 35, one under...
...been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord Corp. controlled not only these plus Auburn...