Word: marse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Col. Haskell, who has been somewhat nearer the scene of action, believes that the time is ripe for a positive policy. Life in Russia, he thinks, is not life in Mars or life very much different from life in any other country, except for the lack of currency."
"Come again, go again, talk again, Mars."
The "opposition" of the Earth and Mars, as their nearest approach to each other is termed in astronomical language, took place last week with a maximum excitement on the part of the public and a minimum excitement on the part of astronomers. These oppositions occur about every 26 months, but...
And then there are the canals. The presence of the major canals are fairly well established by a number of observations. The late Prof. Percival Lowell at his observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., claimed the discovery of as many as 585 canals. Some of these are doubted as optical illusions. These...
Those who doubt the existence of life on Mars are skeptical of the existence of the canals which Prof. Lowell so carefully mapped, an'd they point out that the light atmosphere, the extremes of heat and cold, the comparative absence of water (even if the polar caps consist...