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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase. A score are arrested daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book of verse before your eyes, you come a bit closer to understanding Hangchow's appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A REPORTER AMONG THE POETS | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Corn-rich Iowa is also rich in flies. They rise in clouds from manure heaps, byproducts of feeding hogs and cattle. This spring Iowa will mount an offensive against its flies, aiming to make the state as flyless as the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Flies on Iowa? | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Carl A. Bauer's "An Illustrated Story of the Moon," on Monday, April 28, and "Telescopes and How They Are Made," presented on Tuesday, April 29 by the Amateur Telescope makers of Boston will complete the series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Will Keynote Series of Speeches on Astronomy Next Week | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Snow Red was avoiding reeducation. When the reinforced troops reached Taichu, she and two truckloads of men drove into the cool green mountains of the interior near Jitsu-Getsu San (the Mountain of Sun and Moon), toward shelter among the Formosa aborigines, whom neither the Manchus (in 212 years) nor the Japs (in 51) could ever reeducation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Snow Red & Moon Angel | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Beyond the Moon. In 1943, Fred began to get dizzy spells. Diagnosis: hypertension. He got orders to quit radio. While he was resting, he took his third trip to the other side of the moon (Hollywood), made the third of his four pictures (Thanks a Million, Sally, Irene and Mary, Love Thy Neighbor, It's in the Bag), and a few observations: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars"; "An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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