Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capt. See figured, in proportion to its density. And this elasticity, which accounts physically for the speed with which light traverses space, coupled with another property, is what (according to See) accounts for gravity and the fixture in space of heavenly bodies such as the earth, the moon, the sun. The other property is the weight of world...
There is so much of it that, light though its particles are, it weighs with a great weight upon earth, moon, sun. Against its pressure they cannot fly out of their orbits though their circling speed, imparted at birth, is not checked by the yielding mass. How strongly the world gas acts as marshal of the spheres was suggested by Capt...
...breakfast sausage, short and plump and slightly curled, not to mention a bit blistered at the side from too much frying-that is how the Riff must look to the man in the moon when he swings over Morocco. And if he had listened carefully last week he might have heard the sizzling sound of frying...
...purpose of each side is to wipe out the important leaders of the other. Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story writers. Their knives flicker in bad doorways. Their shapes are seen outlined against a gibbous moon, while they scurry over city roofs at night, or swing down a silk rope-ladder to their victim's window. They are carried up hotel elevators in packing cases; they train cobras to crawl through the speaking-tubes of limousines and bite their enemies on the lip; but the type...
...inhuman ages, alien as the moon...