Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high jump record on the moon, if athletes could perform there with the same energy and efficiency as on the earth, would exceed...
...moon were made of green cheese, and arithmetic were all; then, if 20 maids in 20 days can make 207 tons of cheese, 3,000,000 WPA workers in 100,000 years could not make half the moon...
...Some Smoke, a turkey trot, in 1913. Following year he wrote his first operetta, The Blue Paradise, and the first of his 19 Winter Garden shows. Of all the scores he has written in the past generation, he likes The Student Prince, The New Moon, Maytime and My Maryland best...
...yard, speculating without passion or anger on their fates-one becoming a dealer in jewels and watches, another grown ruddy from "sunning in the South." He can interrupt these reflections with strange asides that suggest the unpredictable quality of his imagination: How earth pulls us and pulls the moon Our bones know casually...
...years the moon will be close enough to send 65O-ft. tides surging over the seas four times a year, penning U. S. inhabitants between its eastern and western mountain ranges. When this cold corpse of a satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated...