Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind. Both sun and moon, when overhead, actually "pull up" on us, their gravitational action counteracting that of our own planet, so that our heads and all other earthly objects are physically lighter at high noon and under the moon's zenith than at other times...
...with Dr. Einstein is whether or. not gravity is an instantaneous thing, operating at infinite speed. He says not. One proposition of Relativity is that the pull of a body's gravity travels at the speed of light-about 180,300 mi. per sec. Specifically therefore, the moon's gravity pull is felt on earth one and a third seconds after the moon has passed its zenith; the sun's gravity, 8 seconds after high noon...
...father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind the screaming Stork for necking on the Neckar. "I am a disciplined Fasrist," she cried with ambidextrous gestures of Latinate obedience. "Without the permission...
...Again, the appeal to facts makes it clear that somehow out of the continuity of progress real differences have emerged. When the cow pauses on the hillside to admire the view, when the dog ceases to bay at the moon in order to construct a system of astronomy, then and not till then will we believe that there are no differences between man and other animals...
...calculation shows that if we had five trillion cables of steel, each a foot in diameter and the steel capable of lifting thirty tons to the square inch of the cross section, this whole giant forest of steel cable would be stretched to the breaking point to hold the moon in its orbit about the earth. To hold the earth in its orbit about the sun would require an 11-inch cable of such steel on each square foot of hemispherical cross section of our globe, which practically would cover the earth's surface with such a forest...