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id: 61942
author: Ackermann, Henry Andrew
title: South to Propontis
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words: 4457
sentence: 360
flesch: 92
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summary:
  It was that southern rim, a mere uneven thread of rust, to which Don had raised his eyes so many times that day, his heart light with the thought that he was going to Propontis. Don had been seven when they struck the Suzie lode.


id: 61811
author: Williams, Robert Moore
title: Quest on Io
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words: 5336
sentence: 485
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Seeing she couldn't get the gun, she stopped, and the blast she launched from her eyes made Andy think they were heat guns of a new kind. Andy reached decisively for a rock.


id: 61895
author: Cummings, Ray
title: Space-Wolf
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words: 5481
sentence: 537
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Well, in a nutshell, I'm Morgan--Solo Morgan. The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan--to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen.


id: 61843
author: James, D. L. (Daniel Lewis)
title: Exit From Asteroid 60
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words: 5770
sentence: 395
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Destiny had indeed provided them both with a strange exit from Echo, for in that split second Bormon realized that he was being hurled squarely into the gaping orifice of the cyclotron. But when Calbur failed to show up in time for a return voyage to Earth, Bormon had taken up the search.


id: 61798
author: Selwyn, Carl
title: Venus Has Green Eyes
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words: 6017
sentence: 609
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Venusian women were the beauties of the Universe and this woman had surpassed them all, but in her dull beauty, thought Flip, there was nothing feminine. Flip had reasons.


id: 61869
author: Kummer, Frederic Arnold
title: Satellite of Fear
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words: 6634
sentence: 607
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Any news, Mr. Grant? she asked quietly, stepping into the control room. Orders, Mr. Grant! Face stony, Grant left the control room, strode along the companionway to the fo'castle.


id: 61353
author: Laumer, Keith
title: Saline Solution
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words: 6512
sentence: 656
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Sure thing, Mr. Retief. Mr. Leatherwell is hardly interested in these details, Retief, Magnan cut in.


id: 62075
author: Cummings, Ray
title: Gods of Space
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words: 9371
sentence: 857
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Dr. Atwood, ten years ago, had propounded the theory that it was a sub-microscopic spore so small that even the giant electro-microscopes could not detect it. But, then, Dr. Atwood had discovered, in the ore of Xarium, which existed in very small quantities on Earth, a product which he had named _Xarite_.


id: 62186
author: Gallun, Raymond Z.
title: Space Oasis
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words: 9932
sentence: 894
flesch: 89
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summary:
  I swaggered into the pay office, where a couple of stenogs clicked typewriters, and where Norman Haynes, acting head of the Haynes Shipping Company, sat at his desk, under the painted portrait of his uncle, that grizzled old veteran, Art Haynes, who had retired years ago, and who now lived on Earth. At sight of me, Norman Haynes arose from his chair.


id: 61976
author: Bond, Nelson S.
title: "Shadrach"
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words: 9898
sentence: 822
flesch: 88
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summary:
  As they neared the cradles wherein lay the vessels of a thousand diverse ports, Salvation questioned Chip still further. And they, Chip Warren thought as he watched the bleary man pour yet another jigger of green from a malevolently gleaming bottle of _lisk_, were a particularly evil-looking and ill-assorted lot.


id: 31327
author: Mullen, Stanley
title: Master of the Moondog
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words: 12725
sentence: 1337
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Tod Denver and Charley, the moondog, made ideal companions as they set a zigzag course for the Martian diggings--paradise for fools._ [Illustration] Tod Denver glared at Charley, who was a moondog and looked like one, and Charley glared back.


id: 62321
author: Cummings, Ray
title: The Flame Breathers
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words: 14130
sentence: 1174
flesch: 90
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summary:
  For a moment, with little Ama clinging to me, I must have stood appalled at the weird sight of the dead fire-mime. The Senzas, primitive obviously, yet with an orderly tribal civilization, were the dominant race here on little Vulcan.


id: 4638
author: Woolley, L. H. (Lell Hawley)
extension: .txt
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words: 20546
sentence: 979
flesch: 77
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title:
  California, 1849-1913; Or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State

summary:
  It commenced at Francisco street between Powell and Mason streets. It extended north several hundred feet and was used for a landing place for lumber in the rough, to be conveyed to his mill on the South side of Francisco street near Powell.


id: 27918
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: The Mines and its Wonders
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words: 23916
sentence: 977
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Neither engine-house nor chimneys such as are seen in other mines are visible, while every detail of the work is exposed to view--indeed, the huge basin has the appearance of a mine completely turned inside out. The travellers visited these and several other mines, among them the Consolidated Copper Mines, situated in the parish of Gwennap, about three miles from Redruth.


id: 38903
author: Hoskin, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph)
extension: .txt
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words: 38329
sentence: 1498
flesch: 61
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title:
  The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines

summary:
  The word exploitation is used by many mining men and engineers to signify a plan of so opening up ore deposits as to render the contents removable. Prof. Robert H. Richards, the head of the mining department in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the inventor of machines which have made him famous among mining men, says, Ore dressing is an essential part of mining.


id: 44681
author: Smyth, H. Warington (Herbert Warington)
title: Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam
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words: 40726
sentence: 1287
flesch: 68
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summary:
  In a few years' time there will, no doubt, be more men at work, and larger areas of pits in work. One man showed me what he declared was the result of his year's work--three good stones of rich colour and good water, for which he expected to get 100, 60, and 50 Rs.


id: 26697
author: Hoover, Herbert
title: Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration
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words: 61726
sentence: 2962
flesch: 63
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summary:
  ============================================================= Feet of | 100,000 | 200,000 | 300,000 | 500,000 |1,000,000 Water Lift | Gallons | Gallons | Gallons | Gallons | Gallons Avoided |per Diem |per Diem |per PRINCIPLES OF MINING +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Published by the | | McGraw-Hill Book Company | | New York | | | | Successors to the Book Departments of the | | McGraw Publishing Company Hill Publishing Company | | | | Publishers of Books for | | Electrical World The Engineering and Mining Journal | | Engineering Record Power and The Engineer | | Electric Railway Journal American Machinist | | Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ PRINCIPLES OF MINING VALUATION, ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION COPPER, GOLD, LEAD, SILVER, TIN AND ZINC BY HERBERT C. HOOVER _Member American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Société des Ingénieurs Civils de France, Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc._ First Edition _FOURTH THOUSAND_ McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY 239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK BOUVERIE STREET, LONDON, E.C. 1909 PREFACE.


id: 34507
author: Hankins, Arthur Preston
title: The Heritage of the Hills
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words: 64523
sentence: 4526
flesch: 90
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summary:
  It belongs to Mr. Oliver Drew, according to the recorder's office. It required many long minutes for the entire circle to complete the trip around the fire; and this continued on and on till the brain of Oliver Drew swam and the fire in reality took on the aspect of a tormenting, threatening ogre which this rite must crush.


id: 31485
author: Nason, Frank Lewis
title: The Blue Goose
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words: 64276
sentence: 5150
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Luna saw Firmstone in the laboratory as he entered the railed enclosure. Ze steel get hin ze roll, ze stamp break, ze tram break, ze men kick.


id: 12911
author: Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
title: A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
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words: 65809
sentence: 3567
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Later came the reigns of little bosses, the specter of the big corporation boss behind them all, and then the triumph of decency under McNab, when good men served as supervisors. Few men have faced sharper trials and met them with more serenity and apparent lack of consciousness.


id: 39433
author: Standish, Burt L.
title: Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends
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words: 73029
sentence: 5522
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Bill let Frank alone until after dinner. Throughout the night Frank Merriwell lay ensconced behind some sheltering rocks in a deep ravine, where he had been trapped by the ruffians in the employ of the mining trust, who were determined to wrest from him the precious papers they believed to be in his possession.


id: 403
author: Davis, Richard Harding
title: Soldiers of Fortune
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words: 79687
sentence: 3881
flesch: 83
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summary:
  They seem to be a most picturesque lot of young men. They were only employees of Langham--two of the thousands of young men who were working all over the United States to please him, to make him richer, to whom he was only a name and a power, which meant an increase of salary or the loss of place.


id: 20104
author: Cooper, Courtney Ryley
title: The Cross-Cut
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words: 79861
sentence: 5156
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Robert Fairchild hastily made his toilet, then answered the ringing of the dinner bell, to be introduced to strong-shouldered men who gathered about the long tables; Cornishmen, who talked an h-less language, ruddy-faced Americans, and a sprinkling of English, all of whom conversed about things which were to Fairchild as so much Greek,--of levels and stopes and winzes, of skips and manways and raises, which meant nothing to the man who yet must master them all, if he were to follow his ambition. When the next dance came, they went again on the floor together, Robert Fairchild and the brown-eyed girl whom he suddenly realized he loved, without reasoning the past or the future, without caring whom she might be or what her plans might contain; a man out of prison lives by impulse, and Fairchild was but lately released.


id: 34296
author: Garland, John
title: Ross Grant, Tenderfoot
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words: 81211
sentence: 5025
flesch: 88
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summary:
  It's far better to turn him from his purpose as you are doing--or trying to do, I should say, because, if young Ross is anything like old Ross, he will not be so easily turned. Ross hesitated, glanced at the waiting clerk, glanced at the suspicious face of the sheriff and then, with a shaking hand, wrote: Ross Grant, Junior, and laid the pen down.


id: 40262
author: Standish, Burt L.
title: Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia
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words: 89919
sentence: 7021
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Steady, Brad, old man! warned Dick. Some of them had bad records, and yet they had served Frank Merriwell faithfully in guarding his mine, the Queen Mystery, against those who tried to wrest it from him by force and fraud.


id: 35213
author: Reid, Mayne
title: Afloat in the Forest; Or, A Voyage among the Tree-Tops
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words: 92736
sentence: 4459
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Its timber is very hard and fine grained, and will stand the weather better than most other South American trees; but it cannot be procured in any great quantity, because, like many other trees of the Amazon, it is of a solitary habit, only two or three, or at most half a dozen, growing within the circuit of a mile. All ob you lay hold on de creepin' vine, an' pull um out from de tree.


id: 15752
author: Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson)
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words: 117177
sentence: 4269
flesch: 63
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title:
  Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State

summary:
  To J.H. O'Brien, a well-known citizen, Judge Terry said that after he got out of jail he would horsewhip Judge Field. The letter to me from Justice Field above referred to is the only letter from Justice Field to me in which Judge Terry's name was ever mentioned, and, with the exception of the above-mentioned street conversation, Judge Field was never the subject of conversation between Judge Terry and myself, from the time I left the bench, on the 1st of January, 1857, up to the time of Terry's death.


id: 42268
author: Townshend, R. B. (Richard Baxter)
title: Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine
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sentence: 6520
flesch: 85
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summary:
  He grasped Stephens hand warmly, sprang to his saddle, and was presently galloping for the Rio Grande. The eleven Indians were the first Navajos Stephens had ever seen, and he eyed them with no little curiosity.


id: 39918
author: Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)
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sentence: 5396
flesch: 74
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title:
  Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe

summary:
  Indeed, for that matter, the general characteristic of great men is modesty, and where will you see so many notoriously great men as in Washington upon the advent of a new administration. Good men could obtain employment any where by working for their wages; but it required the best kind of administration men to earn extraordinary compensations by an extraordinary amount of idleness.


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