Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birds' eyes "are the finest and most remarkable of all the eyes on earth, being often both telescopic and microscopic. . . . Visual acuity is almost incredible, being in some instances 100 times as great as that in men. . . . Birds do not see blues and violets at all. This helps in their distance vision because the haze which hangs about distant objects and which, for our eyes, renders them more or less invisible, for birds does not exist. Birds, on the other hand, see infra-red radiations which, for us, affect only the temperature sense of the skin...
...believed in informed circles that President Conant will move heaven and earth to discover some means of perpetuating the Plan for at least another year, by economizing elsewhere in the University...
Another question: "Have you ever sent messages to other planets?'' Prompt answer: "I've sent lots of messages that never got anywhere. If dispatches ever reach other planets the achievement will depend on overcoming absorption in the earth's atmosphere, and last but not least on whether the planets are inhabited. They might be in the Stone Age and not be ready to receive our communications. We know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter...
...textbooks. When he decided to become a novelist, he planned a Balzacian series on the U. S. panorama. Critics jeered at his third novel (The Man Who Cannot Die}, and Author Williamson made up his mind "to get off my literary high horse, to come down to earth and express myself simply." A fierce worker, he could easily write two novels a year, fills in his time by writing children's books. With his second wife he moves restlessly about the world; at present they are in Portugal. "Dark as a gypsy, nervous as a cat," he talks...
Other books : Run Sheep Run, Hunky, The Earth Told Me, In Krusack's House, Sad Indian...