Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a deep-diving narrative is no job for the ordinary novelist, but Thomas Mann, artist, mystic and philosopher, is no ordinary writer. Readers will find in Young Joseph the same magical blend of imaginative artistry and philosophic intuition that made Joseph And His Brothers a blue-moon book...
...That the dark side of the crescent moon is faintly visible to man is due to light from the sun which reaches Earth and is reflected back to the moon. By spectroscopic analysis of this "earthshine" and by inferring additional details from the known phenomena of optics, astronomers can form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking...
...archaeological expedition to Egypt headed by Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, are reported to be working on the site of ancient turquoise mines at Serabit which has long been famous for its ruined temple of the goddess Hather. She is usually represented with cow's horns and wearing a moon-shaped disc...
Colonial--"The Harvest Moon...
...Vagabond has been sitting for an hour with nary a thought in his poor addled brain. The moon laughs in at him through the window and the lights on the river twinkle "Out for a gambol and revel with the doxies. It's spring...