Word: marse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For it must be kept in mind that Wassermann is a sort of first child of the Twentieth Century, strong and vigourous and mercilessly sure in his judgment of the world into which he was born, that of Huysmans and Wilde and Anatole France, a world in which avarice and...
Mars had come closer to Earth than it would be for another 13 years.
Senator Sheppard listened patiently, taking notes; then snorted his arrogant reply: "The Wets have about as much chance of weakening the Prohibition law as a humming bird has of flying from, this planet to Mars with the Washington monument on its back."
Listening to what his assistants saw was Director Edwin Brant Frost of the Yerkes Observatory. His years of looking through telescopes are over; his sight, after having served him with distinction, fails. But Mars is etched in his memory and he discussed the perennial question of Martian inhabitants. "We are...
In England, radio engineers "listened" for signals from Mars with apparatus tuned for waves from 30 metres to 40,000 in length. Engineer Guglielmo Marconi was quoted as having believed interstellar communication "not impossible." A spiritist kept newspaper readers diverted with "messages" from a Martian woman, one "Gomaruru."