Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...left his grandfather's church and the Republicans. In politics, he went left; in religion, he became an Episcopalian, then for a space floundered around in Asiatic mysticism with a Russian theosophist dubbed "Guru...
California. Undaunted by official skepticism, one Clifford Harrod McCaslin of Oakland went on building his egg-shaped bomb shelter ("Ever try to crush an egg?"). His egg, when completed, will house 33, provide bunk space for 20. "They laughed ... at City Hall when I applied for a permit," said McCaslin, "but it isn't really funny...
...Russian Communist armies . . . The question which challenges us is: Shall we have the time [to prepare our defenses]? No one can answer that question for certain. To assume that we were too late would be the very madness of despair ... In my judgment we have a breathing space...
...loving cup's handles, and a grin like a Saint Bernard puppy," Lancelot is that time-tested hero, the gangling young whippersnapper who loves to tinker-and more often than not tinkers his way to a fabulous discovery. With the greatest of ease he captures a group of space pirates who try to hold up his ship in mid-stratosphere, invents a velocity intensifier which ups his ship's speed to 670 million m.p.h. As his crowning feat, he manages to immaterialize his spaceship so that it can pass straight through the planet Jupiter, then materialize it again...
...Last year Publisher Doubleday, with one eye on flying saucers and the other on an unexplored trade-book market, plunged into science fiction, quickly issued five titles (Lancelot Biggs is the sixth). With sales and reprint prospects looking brisk, U.S. readers can brace themselves for more long rides into space...