Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is hnau?' asked Ransom...
...Pfifltriggi?' said Ransom...
...hnauness of the pfifltriggi turned out to be the least of Elwin Ransom's worries when he arrived on Mars in a space machine...
...this book Author Lewis, the Oxford don whose Screwtape Letters (TIME, April 19) brilliantly reported the correspondence between a devil in hell and one of his earthly minions, has Philologist Ransom carried off to Mars by a couple of scheming scientists. This well-worn device is intended to provide readers with an astronomically detached view of life on earth. The result is sub-Wellsian fantasy, tinted with irony and as pitted with morality as Pilgrim's Progress. The findings are not flattering to earthworms, some of whom may feel that Elwin Ransom might have got just as far without...
...scientists hoped to hand Ransom over to Martian colleagues for experimental purposes. In return, one scientist wanted Martian gold. The other wanted to study the possibilities of man's annexing Mars as a breeding ground for a race of new men. But Philologist Ransom escaped his captors...