Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prof. Sachs first figured out what the ancient notes were called. Here are the first four lines he deciphered: ME ME KUR KUR A A A A A KU KU LU LU MASH MASH MASH MASH...
...arises, because the accomplishment of World Peace with her is so impassioned a crusade. She is the sort of person who does not eat meat or wear furs because she believes it is wrong to kill animals for the luxury of mankind. I should like to have her meet Prof. Grindell-Matthews, famed inventor of the death-ray (TIME, Apr. 21, SCIENCE) as I met him the other morning, and to see the motion picture of his experiments. What would she have to say to him, I wonder; for he is a quiet, shy, slight Englishman, just...
...beam of light shoots from a projector. It seeks out a mouse in its cage. The mouse blinks, surprised, into the glow. A switch is turned. Terrible energy flies along the beam. The mouse jumps into the air, quivers, is dead. So, in the future, Prof. Grindell-film such prophetic visions-the death ray will sweep whole armies into oblivion, whole cities into bleak, smoldering ruins, explode bombs in midair, blow up ammunition dumps from great distances; in a word, make existence for those who do not possess its mysterious secret impossible, and, so he says...
...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 supposed canals were estimated at 30 to 100 miles in width and Prof. Lowell believed them to be belts of irrigated country close to canals. He believed further that they were supplied with water by the melting of the polar caps, and thought he dectected changes in the darkness and color...
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 of snow-and it is suggested that they may be congealed carbon dioxide-it is estimated that there is less water on Mars than there is in one of the larger of the Great Lakes) make life such as we know it impossible. But like the argument for "life...