Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silent groups of men clustered at various dark street corners throughout the University last night, but their only purpose was to observe the summer's first eclipse of the moon...
According to strict astronomical calculations, the eclipse began at 9 o'clock, but not until 10 o'clock was the earth's shadow, as it began to creep across the face of the moon, visible to the naked...
...moon reached its full eclipse, appearing as a dull copper ball, at 11:01 o'clock and remained unchanged until 12:35 when the earth's shadow began to recede. Since the dimout regulations removed most of the glare from the skies and only scattered clouds appeared, the course of the phenomenon was clearly visible in all its stages...
...down moon from them," said Fighter Allison, "and they made a 180-degree turn away from me. The radio called: 'You see 'em?' I answered: 'Watch the fireworks.' But they let go at me first, hit my motor, burned my hand with an incendiary bullet. I was right behind three Japs and there was no use in quitting at that point...
...chairman of Detroit's Motors Metal Manufacturing Co., as much as possible in the elaborate McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac. Fifteen years ago, Engineer McMath built a small 4-inch telescope for his father, became so fascinated at his first view of Jupiter's satellites and the moon's mountains that he has been designing astronomical instruments ever since. He has made the world's best motion pictures of solar phenomena, and his films are now used in colleges throughout the world. His specialty is photographing the enormous storms and eruptions...