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Word: moons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survives the other six will follow his trail, and if he fails the other six will be there to carry on. And beyond, with success, lie higher and headier space flights, perhaps even to the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Rendezvous with Destiny | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...develop a whole family of transonic jets: the Cutlass, the Fury, the Demon. Most recent assignment: test pilot for the new Mach 2 F4H McDonnell fighter. Last week Schirra's son, Marty, 8, chortled to his third-grade classmates: "My Dad is going on a rocket to the moon!" Replied a friend nonchalantly: "Have him bring me back a piece of green cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE SEVEN CHOSEN | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...notch from last year's finish of seventh, but not much further. Gil Hodges and Carl Furillo are both over 35 and obviously are tapering off. Duke Snider hit .312 last year, but even with the right field fence moved in, his power is wasted in the Coliseum. Wally Moon, a good hitter but a notoriously poor fielder should play some along with Junior Gilliam. Hodges and Charlie Neal are set at first and second but no one knows who will play opposite them...

Author: By Tampa JIM Benkard, | Title: National League: Pittsburgh Picked To End Long Era of Dismal Finishes | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...individual missionaries, but our needs require us to be group missionaries," the Dean commented. Rexford J. Moon, Jr., director of the College Scholarship Service, has pointed out that 150,000 capable students from low-income families never attend college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Urges Recruiting Try | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

Bandit-beating is not the simple business it once was. In the early days of the slots, the process was called "spooning," and it had nothing whatever to do with June or moon. A spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: How to Hit the Jackpot | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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