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Spacemen Die at HomeForty days of heaven and forty nights of hell. That's the way it's been, Laura. But how can I make you understand? How can I tell you what it's like to be young and a man and to dream of reaching...

The Library of Entertainment: Handbook"Nowhere so happy as curled up in a corner with a book." So said, or is reputed to have said, no less a genius than St. Thomas Kempis. And thousands of men and women, boys and girls, still testify to...

Dead EndScientist William Manning Norcross drank his soup meticulously and scooped up the vegetables at the bottom of the cup, while his attention was focused on the television screen. He watched girls swimming in formation as he gnawed the bone of his steak. He...

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's HistoryWhatever be the ideas of the public upon a glance at the title page of this work, it is not intended to pander to the morbid desire for the sensational or horrible, characteristic of weak minds. This...

Journal of Small ThingsThose who have read Mrs. Mackay's book, which she entitled Accidentals, will know exactly what to expect from her new book, Journal of Small Things. Like the early one it consists of a series of little sketches more or less in...

The Livestock Producer and ArmourTHE year 1919, included as it was in the period between the signing of the Armistice and the ratification of peace, was logically a season of uncertainty, unrest and unsettled conditions. And yet American business, discounting all this, entered upon...

The life of Midhat Pasha; a record of his services, political reforms, banishment, and judicial murderAs the Son of Midhat Pasha I was for fifteen years compelled to reside as an exile in Smyrna, but finding the physical and moral sufferings to which I...

Electricity in Locomotion - An Account of Its Mechanism, Its Achievements, and Its ProspectsIn the following pages an attempt is made to give a clear picture of the part which electricity has taken and will continue to take in the development of locomotion. Some...

Bridge CrossingIn 1849, the mist that sometimes rolled through the Golden Gate was known as fog. In 2149, it had become far more frequent, and was known as smog. By 2349, it was fog again. He wasn't worried. The small blaze that smoldered behind...

The AddictsYou must understand that Palmer loved his wife as much as ever, or he would never have thought of his simple little scheme at all. It was entirely for her own good, as he had told himself a dozen times in the past...

The Modern Athens - A dissection and demonstration of men and things in the Scotch Capital.The renown of the Scottish Metropolis,that city of wonders and of wisdom, of palaces and of philosophy, of learned men and of lovely women, had sounded so long and...

The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil JennicoMemoir of Captain Basil Jennico (begun, apparently in great trouble and stress of mind, at the Castle of Tollendhal, in Moravia, on the third day of the great storm, late in the year 1771)...

Au delà du présent...Pourtant, si lon coute bien et si lon sait le langage des choses, travers ce silence et cet oppressement on peroit un murmure dabord peine distinct, puis qui senfle mesure que lon coute mieux, semblable aux soupirs exhals par la mer...

IntentionsM. Charles Grolleau, auquel nous avons confi le soin d'crire l'tude que nous dsirions voir figurer en ce volume, a pieusement recueilli, parmi les notes que nous a laisses Rebell, plusieurs passages recopis par cet auteur qui les jugeait achevs. Je blme galement et...

Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871While spending a day in the country on one of those pretty green islets that are dotted about in clusters on the Seine between Champrosay and Soisy, and wrestling with a friend, my foot slipped on the damp...

Zeritsky's LawSomebody someday will make a study of the influence of animals on history. Although not as famous as Mrs. O'Leary's cow, Mrs. Graham's cat should certainly be included in any such study. It has now been definitely established that the experiences of this...

The Marching MoronsSome things had not changed. A potter's wheel was still a potter's wheel and clay was still clay. Efim Hawkins had built his shop near Goose Lake, which had a narrow band of good fat clay and a narrow beach of white...

Psychotennis, Anyone?Before them the ball took a savage turn toward the player in white. Around Grant the crowd stood up and roared, and he felt suddenly tense and doubting. Then the player ducked, the ball shot through above him to smash against the court...

Syndrome JohnnyThe blood was added to a pool of other blood, mixed, centrifuged, separated to plasma and corpuscles, irradiated slightly, pasteurized slightly, frozen, evaporated, and finally banked. Some of the plasma was used immediately for a woman who had bled too much in childbirth....

Ratsmädel- und Altweimarische GeschichtenIch wei noch so manches aus der Zeit, in der das kleine, nun lngst wieder bescheidene Weimar ganz unvermutet anfing, mitten unter den tausend und abertausend europischen Stdten und Stdtchen sich auerordentlich wichtig zu thun. Es mochte auch alles Recht dazu...