Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, on June 19, a sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...under the conical shadow of the moon, astronomers are willing to travel thousands of miles with cumbersome equipment, spend months of laborious preparation because the fleeting seconds of totality enable them to check whether the solar system is running according to calculations; to observe the effect of masking the sun on radio, weather and other terrestrial phenomena; to study the shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body...
...London's Professor E. V. Appleton recorded echoes following intervals of 30 sec., which would indicate that the signals were deflected from some region far beyond the moon...
Committeeman Walter D. Euler thereupon interjected: "You are pretty familiar with Moon Mullins...
Biggest amateur telescope is the 22-incher built by George Tauchmann of Berkeley, Calif. Twelve amateurs from California to Massachusetts have built 12-in. instruments, powerful enough to magnify the craters of the moon 500 or 600 times, to make visible the fifth satellite of Jupiter...