Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a crude calendar, carefully accounting for the days, calculating and recording the changes of the moon. "It was pretty important for me to know when the moon would be full and the nights would be dark," Tweed said reflectively, recalling how he had lived the animal life of the hunted. Not until the Jap Navy garrison declared Tweed dead (in order not to lose face with a Jap Army garrison that followed it), did the search for him cease...
Says Dr. Gumpert: "Old age and senility are no more necessarily related than infancy and rickets." At 79, Michelangelo began to write sonnets; at 73, Galileo published his discoveries on the revolutions of the moon; at 82, Goethe finished Faust; at 88, John Wesley preached every day; at 78, Franklin became U.S. Ambassador to France; after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents...
Suave Tom Ramoy spent a Saturday night at Chase gazing at that big yellow moon which others saw to better advantage from Revere and Hampton. Tom had thoughts of a Texas gal down in the Panhandle on his mind. We won't call it homesickness, but he frankly...
Arrived at the moon, the ship, steered and braked by auxiliary rockets, would settle down rear end first. Its passengers, in diving suits, would emerge to explore the moon's surface. The rocket ship would take off again from a portable launching platform. After regaining the earth's atmosphere, the voyagers and ship would land by parachute...
...best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels and alloys, produced new high-flying antiaircraft rockets. Ley, anticipating further improvements, is sure that "the rocket to the moon is possible." With the impregnable calm common...