Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gases and small particles of carbon, magnesium, sodium, etc. The explosion of a meteor is due to its rapid combustion in the dense atmosphere near the earth. It is estimated that some 20,000,000 meteors, which would be visible to the naked eye in the absence of sunlight, moonlight or clouds, enter the atmosphere every...
...Potent Moonlight: Light vibrations given a definite direction are said to be polarized. Sunlight reflected by sea, snow, sky is partially polarized; moonlight is largely polarized. To find the influence of polarized light on living organisms, it was played on yeast, bacteria, sick rats. The growth of yeast, bacteria was stimulated. The sick rats soon died.?Dr. David I. Macht, Johns Hopkins University...
...Senor Miguel Cinchaga Tacornal goes on from denying that his countrymen are a bunch of villains to allegations too monstrous to stomach. He dares to say that South American lovers do not serenade their ladies in the perpetual moonlight of the southern hemisphere, that there are no matadors in Argentina because no bull-fights...
...office in Washington. But I could triumph over them all. I said, 'No sir, I did not seek a fat office.'" "The closer art keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked off over the ocean as it lay basking in Moonlight's silvery rays. How grand the sight! Beautiful indeed." "I am called an obscene man." "Got home and found little wifey out. Found a dress partly done and I finished it on the machine for her and had the bastings out before she came. How she laughed...
...party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle with a freight-yard detective, and to be very unwell on a mule-ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero to do those things and the hero does them with the utmost whimsical dispatch. There are some grand Irish moonlight and love talk in the last chapter too. Author Connell is a literary first cousin of both Funnyman Robert Benchley and Romancer Donn Byrne...