Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Songtress for Duchin's orchestra will be the beauteous June Robbins. Dancing will pause at midnight for the "Spread" proper, to be consumed in the courtyard, which "will be lighted by indirect lighting and the moon...
...Moon-faced David Rockefeller, 24, youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., after working for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, got himself an unpaid job in New York City's Government (one of 60 students of government who got similar jobs as "interns"). Said amazed new Intern Rockefeller: "I never saw anything like the Mayor...
Washington, D. C., April 23--The common observation that the full moon seems about twice as large at the horizon as it does in the sky overhead has a physiological origin in the eye-movements of human beings, Harvard psychologists told the National Academy of Sciences today...
After four years of experimental observations of the moon and sun, Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, and Alfred H. Holway, a research worker in the Harvard Psychology laboratory, have disproved the theories that the observed change in size of the moon is due to head-movement, or to the fact that at horizon the moon is seen alongside familiar earth-objects...
Although the psychologists are unable as yet to account for the physiological chain of events underlying the observed phenomenon, the experiments leave no doubt that it is the raising and lowering of the eyes which makes the moon seem to change in size...