Word: showering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue. The editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle up to his - And never went there again. HARVEY C. LEECH...
...that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric stones, and particularly...
Last week the astronomers notified the public that the hours from midnight to dawn during the week of November 11 would be the best possible time to watch the sky for the return of the long lost Leonids, a shower of meteors which, due to appear most brilliantly in 1932 should begin to be visible this month...
Ships' logs, church, missionary, Government and other records are among the sources where references to the showers may be found. Any information obtainable will aid the astronomers at the Observatory in predicting the return of the shower...
...same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another defect when applied to the gridiron. Telegrams are delivered on paper of a hue the mere mention of which in a locker room is enough to make every shower in the place run cold...