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Word: mooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland voters had chosen between city management and a return to the old mayor-and-ward-politics system. Manager Hopkins and friends were receiving election returns. Manager Hopkins was winning. A little moved by his success, he strolled to an open window, gazed long at a bright moon. The tight lines of his face relaxed. Coughing for attention, he spoke in blank verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cleveland Idyll | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...passengers saw no towns, just forests, rivers and swamps flecked occasionally by a typee. For some hours the ship lost radio contact with civilization, then picked up a Japanese station, then the U. S. Naval station at Peiping (Peking). She was near the arctic circle. Weather was chilly, the moon ruddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Berlin to Tokyo | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with Mr. Shoup in the audience, was written by Charles G. Norris with music by Robert C. Newell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Revived Rails | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

1.Define work, enery and power and leave an illustration of each. How does weight differ from mass? How does force differ from energy? Would a body weigh more or less on the moon than on the earth? Why? Where would bodies weigh nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...seconds you exert a power of 15 foot pounds per second. Weight is the force by which the earth attracts a body, and is variable. Mass is a measure of inertia and does not vary. Energy is force multiplied by distance. A body would weigh less on the moon because the mass of the moon is so much less than that of the earth. A body would weigh nothing at infinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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