Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship of earth, sun and moon movements, pointed out that the 14¾-day fluctuation was roughly equal to half a lunar cycle and the annual fluctuation to the earth's revolution round the sun. From nearby Caltech, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan suggested that there may have been something wrong with the apparatus...
...will bring the average student through safely and without too much trouble. The person who enjoys having his head stuffed with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...logs up nearer the flue, but the smoke would take no encouragement, preferring to hang like a cloud over the Common Room table. He then blocked up the top part of the fireplace, trying to pinch the vapors into submission to Newton's law of Gravity to the Moon. But the smoke dived underneath the fires and came screeching up into his eyes...
Word of the spectacular Chicago business team of Bertram James Grigsby and William Carl Grunow spread into Wall Street in the late days of the Bull Market. Mr. Grigsby was a precise, poker-faced operating man. Mr. Grunow was an explosive, moon-faced salesman. Together they ran, in a belligerently unorthodox manner, Grigsby-Grunow Co., makers of Majestic radios and electric iceboxes. Unlike most makers of radios and electric refrigerators, they made money hand over fist. In the clear blue firmament of 1929, Grigsby-Grunow stock was a comet...
...summer evening last year a Manhattan newspaper carried a story that John Ringling was in a private hospital recovering from an amputation of both legs. Mr. Ringling, who was actually at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel recovering from an infected blister on his instep, was exceedingly angry. The huge moon-faced circus tycoon summoned the Press. Sitting in an armchair, he waved two thick, muscular legs at the reporters and shouted: "It's terrible to send out a story of that kind. I have many friends all over the country and they will be shocked when they...