Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Bobbsey Twins. In Hollywood, mentioning Kinsey was one of the few ways to break up a gin rummy game. Radio comedians, ever on the alert against censorship, tested the water with such gags as: "He's at the awkward age-you know, too old for the Bobbsey Twins and too young for the Kinsey report...
Mesmer's method was to fill tubs with "magnetized water" (iron filings and pieces of glass). Hopeful sufferers sat around the tubs clutching at protruding iron rods while harmoniums, pianos and musical glasses tinkled and Mesmer and assistants in purple silk coats hovered about...
...this might suggest the existence of life. But astronomers have had no evidence that the Martian atmosphere contains the gases (carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen) which are necessary for life as we know it. The necessary water might be lacking too. The "icecaps" might not be frozen water but "dry ice": solid carbon dioxide...
...Water & Greenery. Last week, Kuiper focused his spectrometer on the gleaming icecap, dwindling fast in the Martian May. It turned out to be "water in the solid state" (ice, snow or hoarfrost). If it had been solid carbon dioxide (dry ice), it would have shown an entirely different spectrum...
Loeffler's first concern on seeing the room was whether his law notes were safe. They were found intact in a water-soaked, scorelied desk...