Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more swank ritual is observed by sitting in a "butt" or comfortable shelter and allowing a crescent-moon shaped line of human "beaters" to herd the game gently along until it can be flushed so as to fly directly over...
...clamor?a protest?can free us. And yet, while we are so near the tomb, your letter amazes me with its unwarranted optimism. How you are deluded! This is not even common sense, coming from you. I would say nothing if such talk came from a man in the moon, but from you ... this is too much. Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old society will go? ... Are you waiting to see them kill us first so that you can build us a monument? . . . Aside from the fate that stares Bart...
Pilot Smith described a hazardous moment: "Once we started to land on some 'farms' (formed by mirages) caused by the moon on a fog bank...
...Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal. Shortly before the time that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green ray in the spectroscope. This element...
...Moon of Israel. Again the Red Sea makes way for the Israelites.! This time the miracle is incidental to a story based on Sir Rider Haggard's novel. This German film includes an episode in which the son of Pharaoh seeks out a slave girl as bride. It manages to be rather dull...