Word: familar
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...called Nothing for it is entirely imperceptible to the senses of man. Only by inference and mental conception has man discovered that Nothing exists. Capt. See calls it "the world gas" instead of by its more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times...
...pates, who recalled a day when the Association had been rent asunder by the disclosures of Darwin and his interpreter Huxley. There were shingled, short-skirted, plain-spoken young women to whom the vagaries of sex-cell chromosomes and a material conception of the universe were as fit and familar topics of conversation as were knitting and amateur meteorological observations to their grandmothers. There was the mooning notable who wandered, followed by his disciples, for two miles about the town in a pouring rain, "on his way" from one meeting to another. There were petulants who objected at the meetings...