Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Saturday, with a tooth in the wind and a squint in the sky, saw the yellow moon of football ripening to the full...
...determine the matter would be to weigh small objects, observing whether variations in their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...split by two half-mirrors, being reunited on the scale-mirrors, where any disparity between the wavelengths of the reunited portions is clearly seen as shadow bands. Thus, when the object weighed (1/29,000 oz. of quartz filament) is lightened by the pull of sun or moon, the scale tips, the wavelength no longer matches (having traveled different distances), and the shadow-bands reflect weight variations caused by gravity within small fractions of a second. To eliminate error, the ray used was a green one, of uniform wavelength, passed from a mercury lamp through an interferometer (light-filter...
...pleasure even now," he continued, "to remember the production by this club of 'Beranger' and the wild play of Don Passos, 'The Moon is a Gong', which was fascinating by reason of its very wildness. We still can see the mourners and clergymen wearing masks as they came into the house where the corpse was lying, entering to the tunes played by a jazz orchestra...
November 24--Eclipses of Sun, Moon, and Stars. Mr. Campbell...