Word: planets
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...possible then, that Mars has something which she is anxious to conceal? Professor Lowell has long held that the planet is the seat of intelligent life; Marconi is convinced that he has received wireless messages from this source. So if, as is commonly supposed, Mars is a much older world than our own, Professor Todd should soon be turning his clock forward a million wears or so and spying out the future of the Human Race. Unfortunately, Nature dislikes dealing in futures, and will undoubtedly do all in her power to prevent him from casting the horoscope of this...
Last year, about this time, learned astronomers were hitching vest-pocket Kodaks to rockets, hoping thereby to obtain better pictures of the planet Mars. This season, the process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion...
President Lowell went on to say "until today a host of lights are shining over our whole country from shore to shore. The oceans that guard our land are the only things upon the planet that man does not, and cannot, change...