Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business School is doing a great and noble work. Take some of the little known economic effects of the eclipse. They are too numerous to mention and will certainly not all wear away in this generation; but take just one: When the moon slithered across the face of the sun producing darkness, it struck the country districts worst, and particularly the poultry. Hens lay scientifically nowadays; they run on schedule, any interference with their routine being disastrous, as members of the Business School know. Now one of the worst effects of the eclipse was the confusion that it threw among...
...place the one per cent of the sun that was visible at 9.17 o'clock shed as much light as Boston is accustomed to on a cloudy day: in the second place the sun was partially eclipsed by clouds any-how at the moment of greatest eclipse by the moon. Most of Harvard remained indifferent to the phenomenon...
From the roof of the CRIMSON building the sun looked like a new moon. At breakfast tables and on the way to examinations a frequent comment was to the effect that the phenomenon was "not half as effective as any moonlight night...
...Significance. Mr. Isman's narrative is like an old music-hall tune played on a street organ. On and on it jingles, sad and gay, the song of the lives of those two derbied, Semitic Pierrots who still posture sadly, gayly, under a calcium moon...
...Imagine our Sambo playing the fiddle; and Mr. Hick's cows jumping over the moon!" The picture and idea amused her immensely...