Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of the chairs are made with only three legs so that you often have just the surprise of your life. Out back of this pleasure palace, for those who wish to pay the price there is a really exciting peep-show. If you are lucky you see Venus herself in all her glory. All the things you see are so far away that many men have been known to strain their eyes badly seeking to see Venus and the other heavenly bodies at closer range...
...month of June, when nature is at her best, brings this year many attractions astronomically. Four of the five conspicuous planets occupy prominent places in the evening sky. Venus in the west shortly after sunset is by far the most brilliant object. It is during the last year that the word comes from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California that definite evidence has been obtained of the absence of oxygen and water vapor bands in the spectrum of Venus, thus indicating an apparent lack on that planet of what we regard as life essentials...
...Venus and Adonis" by William Shakspere...