Word: earthwards
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred the ray? The condensation into matter of light and heat given...
...completely from the body. Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped it about a tree. The nose had arrived safely, only one man being injured...