Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What," asked Kieran, "is the mean approximate distance from the earth to the moon?" (Answer: 239,000 miles.) "Who served the shortest term in the Presidency?" (Answer: William Henry Harrison.) After twelve such questions the guests, who had been served dry sack, Riesling, Burgundy, champagne, brandy and liqueurs, laid down their pencils with a collective sigh. Forty schoolteachers took over the job of correcting papers...
...scientists had been experimentally limited to the earth and to a thin shell of air around it. Last week, the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced a scientific milestone: on Jan. 10 (and several times since), its radar at Belmar, N.J. had sent a message to the moon and got an answering echo. Man had finally reached beyond his own planet...
...military junta was not yet sure of keeping power. As the chanting and dancing in the Grande Rue went on through the night under a mellow tropical moon, the leftish United Democratic Front organized a committee of public safety and demanded a date for popular elections and the reopening of the student newspaper whose suppression by Lescot had touched off the explosion...
Some day, the mountains of the moon may be accurately charted by radar. So says Britain's famed physicist, Sir Edward Appleton, the man who proved that the earth is swaddled in concentric, electrically charged layers of atmosphere. Sir Edward's theory: radio echoes, bounced off the moon's surface by an extremely short-waved transmitter, could be used to picture the moon's terrain...
Manhattan's Theatre Guild last week excitedly opened a bulky package from one of its favorite playwrights. Not since Days Without End in 1934 had Eugene O'Neill come through with a new play. But last week he sent the Guild three: The Ice Man Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet...