Word: moonless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tulsa, Okla., two Negro youths contested police testimony that they had been swimming nude in a park. Their argument: it was nine-thirty of a moonless night, and besides they wore black trunks...
Cosmic Radiation is one of the major mysteries of the heavens. It accounts for nearly 60% of the light of a moonless night, figures Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Dutch astronomer. (Stars supply another 25%, permanent auroral glow 15%.) On a moonless spring night residents of northern states can see a concentration of cosmic radiation as a wedge of zodiacal light at the western horizon. In the autumn the light concentrates at the eastern horizon. One theory of the source of zodiacal light supposes that it is sunlight reflected from small bodies or gas molecules. Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell...
...Callisto then proceeded into the planetary shadow where it was eclipsed. Only Io then was visible until Ganymede came out from behind Jupiter. Then Io began its transit across the face of Jupiter whose brightness made the duller satellite invisible, and Ganymede passed into the eclipsing shadow. Then all moonless looked nine-mooned Planet Jupiter...
...Blue and Moonless Night and Promises (Brunswick)-Saccharine sentiment spread out smoothly by Lloyd Huntley and his Isle o' Blues Orchestra...
...Blue and Moonless Night and Promises (Victor)?Victor wisely chose this as best of its June jazz crop, sent it to Record-of-the-Month Club members...