Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, bothered by a heaviness in her belly at night, the old woman screwed up her courage to see Dr. Joseph Gilbert Israel, crack Detroit gynecologist. Dr. Israel palpated her abdomen, discovered a hard, round object like a baseball. His first astonished thought was that she, aged 66, was going to have a baby. But the object was too hard to be a living baby's head. Besides it was outside the womb...
Hands, knees, and BOOMPS-A-DAISY! I like a bustle that bends. Hands, knees, and BOOMPS-A-DAISY! What is a BOOMP between friends...
...world of tomorrow and life on other planets, was inspired by Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells's fantasies. Father of pseudo-scientific magazines was a shrewd, fat old man named Hugo Gernsback, an old-time radio fan, who in 1926 started Amazing Stories. It zoomed like a moonward rocket. Today the magazines in this prosperous publishing group (chiefly controlled by the big pulp firms of Street & Smith, Standard Magazines and Ziff-Davis), average about 150,000 readers apiece (sometimes much more), make a good living for many a shamo-scientific writer...
...stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow. Says he: "It is astonishing how many things come true." Chief themes of scientifiction are rocket trips by earth-dwellers to other planets, invasions of the earth by Martians, Mercurians. Authors may be as fantastic as they like in their inventions but publishers warn them not to do violence to the commoner scientific principles lest readers denounce their errors...
...from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick up these reflected waves, and from the time intervals the prospecting engineers can tell how far down the different layers are beneath various points on the surface. If by this means they can plot something that looks like an oil dome, they indicate the probability of oil. It is then up to the driller to find out if oil is definitely there...