Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bills. There is nothing to prevent a Congressman from introducing a bill proposing that the U. S. annex the other side of the moon. It goes into the Record for the benefit of the homefolks, if they are moonstruck. Largely on this basis, Pennsylvania's Kelly proposed that RFC loan up to 50% of the property value of any business to its owners. California's Hoeppel wanted a $10,000,000,000 appropriation for "county loan agencies." More realistically, Minority Leader Bertrand Snell demanded restoration of the 15% pay cut in Federal salaries. And an echo of Hoover...
...museum enthusiastically announced that ground would be broken in a few days, officially resolved that the project "shall henceforth bear the official title and be referred to as the Hayden Planetarium." The Press printed sketches showing the projection dome rising like a vast moon behind a façade supported by six Grecian pillars and graven with the words HAYDEN PLANETARIUM...
Earthshine is what makes the dark part of the moon faintly visible. It is light that has passed through Earth's air once on its way here from the sun, again on its reflected journey to the moon, a third time on its trip back to Earth. Light from the moon's bright side, directly reflected from the sun, traverses Earth's atmosphere only once. Drs. Adams & Dunham found that the spectrum of earthshine showed three times as much oxygen as that of the moon's bright light...
...wispy sickle moon slid through the heavens over Peiping one night last week, eclipsed the planets Saturn and Venus, left them glowing balefully red. To some yellow-robed Buddhist monks conducting sombre ritual in Peiping's ancient, dilapidated Lama Temple, the eclipse was an ominous portent. They twirled their prayer-wheels uneasily, muttering the potent Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged...
...Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian...