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...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 to 60° South with the seasons; lungs capable of using atmosphere as poor in oxygen as that encountered by terrestrial aviators on their highest flights and as dry as the Sahara...
...name, also spoke of the leisurely social practices of the cafeteria habitues. "They come in there," declared the Georgian Ganymede, who wore a white apron and cap, "just loaded down with books and papers, and get their lunch and make a regular library out of the place, spreading it thick all over the tables. And at night, there's a regular bunch of night-ows who stay here and do everything but hoot. I don't know anything about how fast they eat, but they do make a slow and sociable affair out of their meals...
...have loaned it little except their names. To be sure, there is a professional smoothness about the book of the play, an assurance which borders on insouciance; and the air of boredom with which the authors play on the easily tuned instrument of the public galls even the thick-skinned among Boston playgoers. There is an assumption that the playwrights know what the public swallows alive and buys wholesale, a dangerous assumption...
...practical certainty that it has no animal life but may have vegetation. Prime objects of scrutiny were to be the dark streaks which some hold to be canals, some to be forests; and the polar caps, which may be either ice or optical illusions caused by the 100-mile-thick Martian atmosphere...
...perfect transmitter for ultraviolet rays was found by science in fused quartz glass. But fused quartz is too expensive to put in school windows for little boys to knock baseballs through. The new Corning glass, two millimeters thick, is virtually as stable as standard window glass and only slightly more costly...