Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome, a total eclipse of the moon darkened the Mediterranean...
...woods was a sabbat of warlocks and witches who had coursed here from coverts in every cranny of the world. For they talked of things beyond ordinary men's ken?of island universes racing 7,000 miles a second, of the universe exploding into chaos, of the moon's shadow on the clouds. For such talk 400 years ago they would have been racked, flayed, burned as heretics. Last week, as the International Astronomical Union they were feted and fed. Harvard's David Bedell Pickering nimbly took their pictures and Cambridge's Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, broadcasting his description...
Farmers were renting hayfields and hilltops as emplacements for the cameras and telescopes of scientific parties. Mount Washington R. R. Co. reminded prospective customers of its Eclipse Day special, that the top of Mount Washington is 30 acres broad and covered with boulders comfortable to sit upon while the Moon passes in front...
...says, 'Are we going to the moon?' " explained an interpreter...
Retiring in good order the French jury pondered. What was this Gorgulov? They had heard the testimony of a German inventor, a man who makes rockets, hopes to shoot one to the moon. He had testified that, several years ago, Dr. Gorgulov volunteered to be shot to the moon, declaring at the time, "I detest this earth...