Word: martian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brazilians were clamoring for some gesture from Alberto Santos-Dumont. They wanted the United States of Brazil to thumb its collective nose at the United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists...
Whereas, the President, representing the negative, was able to cite dozens of specific defects in the bill and to suggest dozens of specifically evil consequences which, it could not be denied, might arise. Nevertheless, no Martian and few Earthmen could say that the President triumphed as a statesman. For this reason...
Different countries, different scenes. At the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., a badger-like Belgian, Professor George Van Biesbroeck, squatted in his dusky cavern, mapping what he could see, through Earth's shaking atmosphere, of the 1926 Martian geography. He disregarded the two little moons that circle Mars (the inner one twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time...
Listening to what his assistants saw was Director Edwin Brant Frost of the Yerkes Observatory. His years of looking through telescopes are over; his sight, after having served him with distinction, fails. But Mars is etched in his memory and he discussed the perennial question of Martian inhabitants. "We are agnostics on Mars up here," he said, but obliged newsgatherers with an idea of the characteristics a Martian being would have to have to live: a hide thick enough to Stand temperature ranging 150 Fahrenheit between noon and midnight; ability to migrate from 60° North Latitude...
...England, radio engineers "listened" for signals from Mars with apparatus tuned for waves from 30 metres to 40,000 in length. Engineer Guglielmo Marconi was quoted as having believed interstellar communication "not impossible." A spiritist kept newspaper readers diverted with "messages" from a Martian woman, one "Gomaruru...