Word: earthborne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in the earth to be joined presently by three Japanese women (who arrived by boat). As their offspring developed, a strange mutation occurred among the Kos, the Yangs and the Pus. The seaborne women settled down on the land while the earthborn men roamed the oceans and found other mates in foreign parts. The grass widows developed an independent amazon community, did all the work (mostly fishing) and never took permanent husbands. Males were invited to the island only once a year...
...what discoveries he can make with it. Its electron beams have already penetrated inch-thick aluminum, made copper radioactive. Its medical applications, like those of the cyclotron which once struck the bewildered public as a useless device, must be explored. In time the betatron may be able to produce earthborn artificial cosmic rays, whose fantastic energies - hundreds of millions of volts - now smite the earth mysteriously from among the stars...