Word: marse
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Died. James C. ("Bud") Mars, 68, pioneer world-touring balloonist and aviator who gave Hirohito his first plane ride in Tokyo in 1911; of heart disease; in Santa Monica, Calif. A circus high diver who learned to fly in 1908, Mars recently said of his most notable flight: "I wish...
As a lordly dweller in the remote, cool, abstract world of mathematics, Einstein inspires in ordinary earthlings something of the awe which would greet a visitor from Mars. But a new biography by a member of his household (Einstein-An Intimate Study of a Great Man) ; Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), published...
If we are going to have representative government, we have to have Congress. If all the Congressmen were brilliant, efficient and singleminded, they wouldn't represent the people. Not the people I know, anyway; maybe they would represent the people on Mars.
The play is written to sound like a spontaneous, on-the-spot broadcast and development of a real invasion by Martians of superior intelligence and formidable machines. So realistically was it presented by Orson Welles, that citizens actually called their police stations and offered to help save the country from...
Beginning with an ordinary broadcasting procedure of a New York station, reports of explosions from the planet Mars break into the broadcast. An interview at a Princeton astronomical observatory is followed by a description of a scene nearby where the first Martian cylinder has landed and begins to spread destruction...