Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other point has to do with astrology and numerology as hobbies. I never was interested in numerology. In the case of astrology, I was interested in the possible effect of the moon and the planets on weather. I obtained, therefore, the heliocentric longitudes of the planets from the Naval Ephemerises and the geocentric longitudes from an Astrological Ephemeris. The mathematics of astrology is simply Geocentric Astronomy. Was it possible that the angle of the planets to the earth might determine weather, or was it more probable that the angle to the sun might determine weather? I was never able...
...pair of acrobats, conducting a lunatic dancing class, giving a weird exhibition of marksmanship with strange guns. Best of his current gadgets: a piano attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent can prevent the diligence of his comic efforts from appearing occasionally somewhat strained...
There can be no life on Mercury or on the earth's moon, says Astronomer Jones. These bodies are too small to have held their atmospheres. The telescope and spectroscope both clearly show the moon to be a dead world, without air or water. Having no atmospheric muffler, the moon swings through a temperature change of several hundred degrees between the lunar day and night. Mercury, innermost of the planets, keeps one face turned always toward the sun. That side is extremely hot-about 750°-and the perpetually dark side must be correspondingly cold...
...That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides were at the apogee, the moon full. That the R. A. F. was not yet knocked out and that 50 U. S. destroyers were on their way to help...
Married. David Rockefeller, 25, sober, hulking, moon-faced youngest son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; and Margaret McGrath, 24, comely socialite; in Bedford...