Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert J. Moon is a Chicago physicist who worked on the famed Manhattan Project. Thus, he knows a lot of "classi fied" (secret) facts about how Jo make atomic bombs. Last week he came to the rueful conclusion that his knowledge was threatening to be a bar to professional advancement...
Family Voyage. All across the Atlantic the weather was on the side of Britannia. The smooth sea was just what Captain Illingworth ordered. Most of the nights were lit by a theatrically mellow moon. But as the shoreline died away, the passengers had little to look at but themselves. The few inveterate voyagers among them recognized that nothing about the Queen Mary had changed quite so much as her passengers. The prewar glitter of the salon list was dimmed. Gone were the orchids and the ermine. Few British escapists, yearning after the fleshpots of Manhattan night life, rubbed magnificent elbows...
Last week the stars, the sun, the moon behaved according to law. On Earth's surface, which, from a few miles up, might have seemed uninhabited, mankind's performances continued to unroll. Here & there, as usual, bits of the action and dialogue were recorded by journalists who were, as usual, uneasily aware that their jottings were inadequate...
Atomic Age. As he faced the job, no one knew better than Lilienthal the extent of the uncharted wilderness that surrounded him. It was the strange, other-side-of-the-moon wilderness of the Atomic Age. He was not alone in that world. With him were four others: Robert Bacher, Lewis Strauss, William Waymack, Sumner Pike. In innocence and earnestness they had entered their eerie world together on the day last October when President Truman nominated them to be the gods of the atomic mountain, the Commissioners...
Besides pelting the surface of the moon, the rocketeers expect to learn a great deal about the electromagnetic field around the earth, the physical and chemical characteristics of the outer atmosphere, interstellar radiation and aerodynamics...