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Aside from the scientific nature of these stories--which incidentally contain little pseudo-scientific jargon--there is another ingredient which seems to be exclusive to ASF. The scientists who write for it must be a very gloomy lot, for they groan continually about current life, and predict the unhappiest of futures. In Blood's A Rover (the May issue's lead yarn), for instance, the captain of a Process Corps takes us by the hand and shows how awful the Earth's historical development has been, how ridiculously evangelistic we Earthlings really are, and what is in store...
...modern mind see there is nothing new in Communism? It is a groan of despair, not the revolution that starts a new age. It is the logical development of a civilization which for the last 400 years has been forgetting God. ¶ I'm beginning to believe there are only two classes of people : those who believe and those who want to believe. ¶ The new era into which we are entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand: by religious we do not mean that men will turn...
House tutorial staffs, however, will next year groan under the weight of the avalanche of sophomores and juniors required to take tutorial. Already hard pressed for teaching time, some tutors may try to water down assignments to cope with their extra tutees...
...have about 17,000 acres of developed pump irrigation farms around the middle of the project region which, with the U.S.B.R. experimental farms, are proving the versatility, fertility and adaptability of the soil and climate. You have one of the best articles we have seen, but we groan to think of the flood of land inquiries pending...
...Dwight might well groan. For the elaborate joke that makes the wheels go round in Philip Wylie's new novel is that there are no longer any men left in the world (as the women see it) and no more women left in the world (as the men see it). For each sex the other has suddenly disappeared, and the men & women of a world that somehow manages to be simultaneously manless and womanless are faced for the first time with the problem of how to live without each other...