Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, a four-minute mile, a seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than...
Meantime, moon-faced Horace Wells, a dentist of Hartford, Conn., successfully tried laughing gas on himself before a colleague pulled his tooth. Dazzled with hopes of a fortune, he tried the wonder gas on half-a-dozen patients, then dashed off to Massachusetts General Hospital to demonstrate it. But at the hospital the gas didn't work, and he was hooted...
...contrast to a complete lunar or "umbral" eclipse, when the moon passes through the direct shadow of the earth, this affair is called "penumbral" because the moon merely travels through the outer, partial shadow, just missing the earth's direct shadow by a few minutes...
Instead of being completely blotted out by the earth's shadow, the moon will merely become darker, remaining visible throughout the celipse, he added...
...Watson recommended observers to try to realize the relative small size of the moon's diameter of 2000 miles to the 866.000 mile diameter of the sun. He also explained that the reason eclipses of the moon do not take place more often is the fact that the orbit of the moon varies five degrees from that of the earth...