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Word: mooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planetary mystery much nearer home is the problem of the irregularities of the rotation of the earth--a phenomenon discovered through studies of the motion of the moon. For some years we have been familiar with the fact that the earth's rotation is slowing down, that the day is lengthening, and that the moon is receeding; we have learned that after an interval of some fifty thousand million years the month and the day will be the same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROBLEM OF ORIGIN OF SUN'S PLANETS STILL BAFFLES SCIENTISTS | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

Statistics are usually more decorative than useful. Although it is true that Sweden's annual match output would reach to the moon if laid end-to-end, no lunatic ever thought of asking Swedish Match Tycoon Ivar Kreuger to make his statistic come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Profane Proposal | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...moon these many years the Vagabond has dwelt peacefully in his exclusive quarters away up in Memorial Tower. Much has happened since he first moved up, bag, baggage, and piano. Just in the last few years he has stood calmly at his narrow window to watch many a momentous piece of Harvard news in the making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...some reason, football games in the Stadium this season have ended later than in years past. Several of them continued into the dusk, with the whereabouts of the ball a mystery to the spectators and possibly to a few of the players. Only the light of a full moon guided Saturday's crowd from the stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crepuscular Cavorting | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

Situated in Lemhi National Park, Custer County, 50 miles from the famed Craters of the Moon, Mt. Borah, unlike its namesake in Washington, is white-crested the year round, cold, unapproachable, terribly silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Mt. Borah | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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