Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horoscopes, etc. waited from four to six weeks for their answers. At least 162 big-town newspapers printed daily horoscopes. In offices, halls, parlors and tents across the nation, whole classes studied scriggly zodiac charts with the intensity of savants seeking a cure for baldness. One astrological annual, the Moon Sign Book, sold at least 1,000,000 copies of its 1945 issue for $1 a throw. The five leading astrological periodicals (priced from 10? to 25?) boasted a combined circulation of nearly a million...
...inches high, and at first glance her flounced skirt, wasp waist, bare breasts and triple crown looked comically ahead of the fashion. She had roamed the Mediterranean with Cretan pirates. She was reportedly worshiped from Asia Minor to Spain as the eternally virgin mother of all things, the new moon, full moon and old moon, whose baby boy (the sun) went down to death each year. All life was supposed to flow from her inexhaustible breasts...
...soil produced lavishly. The stock was prolific. So was the local population: the countryside was studded with illegitimate kinsmen, the result of neighbors indiscriminately "laying up" with each other. It was in fact a husbandman's paradise-but rather like a paradise on the dark side of the moon. Author MacDonald had sometimes dreamed of a little haunt far from the clawing hands of civilization with its telephones, electric appliances, artificial amusements and artificial people. After nine stimulating months with the mountains, the trees, the rain and the chickens, "I would have swooned with anticipation at the prospect...
Nearest goal for spaceships is the boundary where the earth's gravitational pull and the moon's are equally strong. This "neutral point" comes closest to the earth (160,000 mi.) when the moon's rather feeble attraction is reinforced by that of the sun directly behind it. So a space-voyage to the moon should be made when the moon is "new" and almost in line with the sun. Voyages to Venus, Mars and other planets have been plotted by similar calculations. They would take more time, not much more energy...
Theoretically, spaceships could be steered (around the moon, for instance) by shooting out side-blasts of gas or radiation. When returning to earth, they could be slowed down gradually by coasting in a lopsided spiral through the outer fringes of the atmosphere. If they should hit the denser air unbraked, they would turn as white-hot as a meteor...