Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belittles Flying to Moon...
...expert on rockets and a student of them for many years, Professor Marks expressed his pleasure that leading rocket-ship fans have given up their ideas of reaching other celestial bodies. "It's about time," he remarked. "Man will never achieve such a feat as flying to the moon...
Should Easter fall on the same day every year, instead of shifting with the moon? Last week at the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 300 delegates representing 26,000,000 Protestants of 25 denominations addressed themselves to the problem. Their recommendation: it should fall on the second Sunday in April, as nearest the historic date of the Resurrection...
...Council of Nicea (325 A.D.) decreed that Easter shall fall on the Sunday following the first full moon on or next after March 21. Best Biblical scholarship holds that the Crucifixion occurred on Friday, April 7, 30 A.D. *Universalists and Unitarians consider Jesus the Son of God only in the sense that all men are the sons...
...Military Affairs Committee skillfully frisked the records of Franklin Roosevelt's two appointees to the Surplus Property Board, only to come up emptyhanded. There was no skulduggery, the Senators agreed, in the business dealings of thin, sharp-nosed Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, or of Connecticut's moon-faced ex-Governor. Robert A. Hurley. From this standpoint, both were qualified for the big job of disposing of an estimated total of $75,000,000,000 in surplus U.S. war property...