Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fidgeted in his chair, muttering: "Daid. . . . He's daid." A woman waited stonily, clutching her daughter with one hand and a note from school in the other. The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday." The boy grinned...
...publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...They carried all the latest astronomical equipment, arms for trouble, and 21 bales of presents-looking glasses, beads, 500 brooches and 432 curtain rings for Indian earrings-total cost: $2,160.41. Two years and 132 days later, the expedition returned from a country as little known as the moon. It came back intact, except for the loss of one man who died, probably of appendicitis, 98 days after the journey began...
...plug schedules" to ration out the hits, a few at a time. By waxing tunes from unreleased movies and upcoming Broadway musicals, there were plenty of songs to go around. At least half a dozen singers and orchestras are scheduled to make recordings of Stravinsky's Summer Moon (TIME, Nov. 3). Popular-music fans might miss a few flash novelties like Open the Door, Richard!, which come from nowhere, but they would hear many a new version of "standards" like Stardust...
Rumford Professor of Physics Emery L. Chaffee, however, did not regard the silver of sun that the moon will efface here between 3:30 and 4 o"clock so cavalierly last night. He and his associates Harry R. Mimno, Gorden McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and John A. Pierce, research fellow in Electronics, are highly interested in the effects of the phenomenon of radiation...