Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Youngsters may be puzzled by Ruth Etting's unsubtle singing of the old songs she made famous (Ten Cents a Dance, Love Me or Leave Me, Shine On, Harvest Moon). Her straightforward style is a far cry from the slick and silken whisperings of the younger generation's favorite song pluggers. But to their parents and their uncles and their aunts, Ruth Etting is still an item, as she proved in a comeback last March...
...scientists will keep their eyes on the moon, clocking with fine exactitude the four "contacts" as its disc passes over the sun. Their observations should refine the figures about the moon's orbit, and about the solar system in general...
Totality will last three minutes, 48 seconds-the longest solar blackout since 1940 and until 1955. The National Geographic Society and the U.S. Army Air Forces, which are running the show, believe that this will be the best observed eclipse in history. When the moon's shadow races across Bocayuva, there are many questions to be asked-some new, some...
Hole in the Sky. A comparatively new problem is the effect of the moon's shadow on the ionized layers in the earth's upper atmosphere. These layers have a profound influence on radio transmission: they bounce some radio waves back and allow others to pass through. Since the ionized layers are caused by ultraviolet light from the sun, they presumably change their character when the moon's shadow knocks a hole in the sun's radiation. Long before the eclipse, begins, the scientists will have radar-like radios of various wavelengths trained upon each layer...
...will observe the effect (if any) of the eclipse on cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are not supposed to come from the sun, but they may be influenced somehow by its sudden blackout. Airborne, too, will be Army meteorologists, watching temperature changes in the atmosphere at all levels as the moon's cold shadow sweeps across Brazil. If the weather is good, they ought to get a gorgeous silhouette picture of the earth's satellite...