Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working in an abandoned garage, Leet has developed a new labor-saving seismograph, which frees geologists from darkrooms and sub-cellar laboratories. Old seismographs recorded on photographic plates; the new one relays earth tremors to a pen-and-paper graph on Leet's desk...
...obviously having a grand time, and that feeling was what they tried most to transmute to the audience. "We are such staff as dreams are made on" became their thesis, and they proved it. By never once allowing a touch of realism to invade their island, their patch of earth became properly ideal, enchanted...
...past 38 years, Campbell has served as secretary of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, a world-wide organization of amateur astronomers. He has collected data from almost every country on the earth during that time, and catalogued it all at the College Observatory...
...place indeed. There is so little water vapor in its atmosphere that if it all fell at once as rain, it would register less than a hundredth of an inch.* And the Martians (if any) are living in a rarefied atmosphere only one-twelfth as dense as the earth...
...earth's atmospheric moisture were precipitated, it would make about one inch...