item: #1 of 31 id: 16834 author: Bolton, Charles E. (Charles Edward) title: The Harris-Ingram Experiment date: None words: 79976 flesch: 72 summary: CHAPTER XXIII GOLD MARRIES GOLD Alfonso Harris was content to leave his friends to continue their journey, as they were willing that he should return to the Netherlands, or to Amsterdam, where lived the beautiful woman who had won his heart. The head lines read: Mr. Alfonso Harris, a young American artist, drowned this morning in the harbor. keywords: alfonso; alfonso harris; america; beautiful; blue; business; capital; captain; chapter; children; christine; city; co.; colonel harris; company; day; days; employees; england; english; evening; face; family; father; feet; friends; george; george ingram; gertrude; gold; good; half; hall; hand; harris; harris family; harrises; harrisville; heart; home; hotel; ingram; iron; labor; left; leo; life; like; london; love; lucille; man; men; miles; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; o'clock; paris; party; people; plant; power; public; reuben harris; river; room; rosie; searles; ship; son; steamer; steel; sun; thought; time; water; white; women; work; world; years; york; young cache: 16834.txt plain text: 16834.txt item: #2 of 31 id: 19660 author: Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett) title: Man of Many Minds date: None words: 69058 flesch: 85 summary: A call for you, Mr. Hanlon, and he plugged the set into a wall-socket. In spite of his utmost efforts to stand eye to eye with the commandant, Hanlon couldn't keep his gaze steadily on that feared visage. keywords: 'em; admiral; big; bird; corps; day; dog; eyes; face; geck; george hanlon; going; good; hand; hanlon; hawarden; head; leader; look; man; men; mind; moment; natives; new; panek; philander; planet; right; room; ship; simonides; sir; things; think; thought; time; use; voice; want; way; work cache: 19660.txt plain text: 19660.txt item: #3 of 31 id: 23335 author: Garrett, Randall title: Unwise Child date: None words: 54255 flesch: 88 summary: 1 The kids who tried to jump Mike the Angel were bright enough in a lot of ways, but they made a bad mistake when they tangled with Mike the Angel. Their mistake was not in their planning; it was in not taking Mike the Angel into account. keywords: angel; brain; captain; commander; crannon; door; earth; eyes; face; fitzhugh; gabriel; going; good; hand; harry; head; human; jeffers; keku; leda; liegnitz; lieutenant; look; man; mellon; mike; multhaus; power; quill; right; robot; room; second; ship; sir; snookums; thing; time; vaneski; voice; von; way; | | cache: 23335.txt plain text: 23335.txt item: #4 of 31 id: 26093 author: Jones, Raymond F. title: The Memory of Mars date: None words: 13419 flesch: 90 summary: And something else I know: Alice and Mel Hastings are content and happy. Mel drew down the cover only far enough to expose the face of Alice. keywords: alice; come; connemorra; hastings; mars; mel; princess; room; ship; space; thought; time; way; winters cache: 26093.txt plain text: 26093.txt item: #5 of 31 id: 26140 author: Kenyon, Ernest M. title: Security date: None words: 3761 flesch: 83 summary: Well, good, Collins, Gordon, the Division Administrator, had said, glad to check it over. The momentary pause of lighting his cigarette gave Collins a chance to decide where to start, as he sat across from Gordon. keywords: collins; desk; field; gordon; mason; work cache: 26140.txt plain text: 26140.txt item: #6 of 31 id: 26168 author: Slesar, Henry title: The Success Machine date: None words: 4008 flesch: 89 summary: Ten o'clock department head meeting, Mr. Colihan. Colihan, however, was still brooding on the parade of pink cards which had been emerging with frightening regularity from his think-machine, and he failed to get the point. keywords: card; colihan; grimswitch; man; moss; sir cache: 26168.txt plain text: 26168.txt item: #7 of 31 id: 26174 author: Leinster, Murray title: The Machine That Saved The World date: None words: 14503 flesch: 81 summary: You have a way with Mahon machines. Mahon machines do not anticipate anything. keywords: bellews; betsy; broadcast; communicator; graves; howell; lecky; machines; mahon; screen; sergeant; sergeant bellews; standby; type; wave; work cache: 26174.txt plain text: 26174.txt item: #8 of 31 id: 26332 author: Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) title: A Prize for Edie date: None words: 1733 flesch: 79 summary: So when Professor Doctor Nels Christianson opened the letter, there was not the slightest fear on his part, or on that of his fellow committeemen, Dr. Eric Carlstrom and Dr. Sven Eklund, that the letter would be anything other than the usual routine acceptance. I can see it now, Carlstrom said, the banquet, the table, the flowers, and Professor Doctor Nels Christianson in formal dress with the Order of St. Olaf gleaming across his white shirtfront, standing before that distinguished audience and announcing: 'The Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology is awarded to--' and then that deadly hush when the audience sees the winner. keywords: carlstrom; christianson; eklund cache: 26332.txt plain text: 26332.txt item: #9 of 31 id: 28617 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 date: None words: 88686 flesch: 86 summary: And you refused to use your process on me, old man that I was. Come over at once on the jump, old man. keywords: adam; air; athalia; beetles; big; black; body; book; bram; building; carnes; city; course; crompton; day; days; dept; doctor; dodd; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; girl; going; good; haidia; half; hand; head; help; high; home; hour; human; illustration; jenks; know; left; life; light; linane; little; look; man; men; minutes; moment; money; mundson; new; northwood; old; pay; picture; plane; radio; ray; riley; room; saw; scientist; shells; speed; sun; table; thing; thought; thurston; time; tommy; voice; way; work; world; write; years cache: 28617.txt plain text: 28617.txt item: #10 of 31 id: 29198 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 date: None words: 81150 flesch: 85 summary: * * * Leffler, a keen, quick moving little man, whose chin was decorated with a white Van Dyke beard, was very proud of the new acquisition. Glad to see you, old man. keywords: air; bell; beryl; betty; black; body; carpenter; dalis; death; earth; eyes; face; father; gens; george; going; good; hand; hart; hours; jaska; jim; laboratory; left; light; man; marable; master; men; miles; moment; moon; new; paula; people; pioneer; place; power; professor; ray; red; room; sarka; saw; second; secret; ship; space; speed; thing; thought; time; voice; war; way; white; work; world; young cache: 29198.txt plain text: 29198.txt item: #11 of 31 id: 29255 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 date: None words: 80815 flesch: 86 summary: And he needed constantly more and more of such men. However, I had little time for conjecture. keywords: air; arms; benda; city; cubes; dalis; dark; dival; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; find; fire; floor; gens; glass; half; hand; head; hour; house; jim; left; life; light; little; look; magazine; man; men; moment; moon; nareda; new; people; perona; power; professor; quabos; room; sarka; science; sea; ship; sir; space; spawn; stanley; stories; story; strange; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; work; world cache: 29255.txt plain text: 29255.txt item: #12 of 31 id: 29390 author: Pelcher, Anthony title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 date: None words: 73703 flesch: 87 summary: Abruptly she turned, and whispered, Gregg, if other men are with him, I'll draw him away. It's the biggest case you ever tackled, old man, and I hope that we can pull it off successfully. keywords: aero; air; allen; anita; bird; body; bolton; burr; carnes; coniston; dead; death; deck; doctor; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; good; grantline; gregg; half; haljan; hand; kleig; larner; left; life; light; look; man; maniel; men; miko; moa; moment; moon; mother; moyen; new; planetara; prester; prince; professor; ray; room; sea; secret; ship; snap; stories; subs; thought; time; venus; voice; way; world cache: 29390.txt plain text: 29390.txt item: #13 of 31 id: 29607 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 date: None words: 75886 flesch: 87 summary: If Skip isn't here old man Kell must have done for him. I was watching, old man, he said gently. keywords: air; anita; bland; body; captain; carter; cold; dark; deck; dirk; doctor; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; fragoni; george; girl; gregg; handlon; head; heat; jimmie; kell; left; light; look; man; mercer; miko; moment; moon; perry; plane; prince; professor; ray; room; ship; snap; sound; stanton; steinholt; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; window; world cache: 29607.txt plain text: 29607.txt item: #14 of 31 id: 29768 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 date: None words: 82272 flesch: 86 summary: But they were Earth men. Do Earth men mind death? keywords: air; axelson; bell; black; boats; city; crater; cubes; dalis; dome; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; flames; force; frank; frog; gens; gnomes; good; great; green; guards; hackett; half; hand; jamison; jaska; kendrick; left; leland; life; light; look; master; men; metal; miles; moment; moon; nat; new; norman; people; place; power; ray; room; sarka; second; space; speed; stood; stories; thing; thought; time; tommy; water; way; white; world cache: 29768.txt plain text: 29768.txt item: #15 of 31 id: 29809 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 date: None words: 80394 flesch: 89 summary: And how about you, old man? called Tode to Parrish. Potan and other men were frantically investigating to see if the ship's air were hissing out. keywords: air; anita; arms; atom; bell; body; brigands; cain; camp; coming; course; darkness; deck; dent; drilgoes; earth; eyes; face; feet; girl; god; good; grantline; gregg; half; hand; head; jim; light; little; look; lucille; man; men; mercer; miko; moment; ortiz; parrish; people; place; ribiera; room; saw; senhor; ship; shot; signal; smasher; space; stories; thing; thought; time; tode; voice; water; way; white cache: 29809.txt plain text: 29809.txt item: #16 of 31 id: 29848 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 date: None words: 81271 flesch: 91 summary: It's easy for us, who are wiser than other men, to figure what oilfield might contain such people. Yet even the death or madness of many men was preferable to the success of the conspiracy in which Ribiera seemed to figure largely. keywords: air; asher; bell; big; black; body; close; dark; door; durkin; earth; eyes; face; feet; figure; floor; foster; god; going; good; grantline; gun; gurlone; hand; head; jerry; jungle; left; life; light; look; maget; man; marahna; master; men; moon; motor; oil; paula; plane; pressure; ribiera; room; ship; small; stories; sun; thing; thorpe; thought; time; voice; wall; water; way; white; winslow; world cache: 29848.txt plain text: 29848.txt item: #17 of 31 id: 29882 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 date: None words: 80207 flesch: 86 summary: Dick saw Luke Evans still fidgeting impatiently with his end of the speaking-tube, and picked it up. I thought that you would rather instruct me and have me try the operation first on other men. keywords: air; away; bird; black; boer; carnes; carruthers; close; dark; death; dick; doctor; door; drayle; earth; emperor; evans; eyes; face; feet; gas; girl; good; government; ground; guard; half; hand; head; hours; house; jetta; kettler; left; light; like; look; luke; man; men; moment; nanette; new; path; perona; plane; president; rennell; room; sir; slavatsky; spawn; stories; table; thought; time; voice; von; white; window; world cache: 29882.txt plain text: 29882.txt item: #18 of 31 id: 29919 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 date: None words: 77766 flesch: 86 summary: Kay saw Cliff press the lever. Did they get you, old man? he asked. keywords: air; black; blake; body; boer; captain; carr; cliff; close; death; earth; eyes; face; feet; floor; good; gutierrez; half; hand; hanley; head; jetta; kay; life; light; mado; man; mcguire; men; meteor; miles; mind; moment; new; nomad; ora; parker; parkinson; people; planet; rapaju; ray; room; ruth; science; ship; space; stein; stories; story; thing; thought; time; venus; voice; von; wall; way; work; world cache: 29919.txt plain text: 29919.txt item: #19 of 31 id: 30124 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, February, 1931 date: None words: 78214 flesch: 87 summary: Halor vàn! Come Friend Nelson, this day shall the treacherous swine of Jarmuth drown in their own blood! From inside, he could see great eyes staring at him. keywords: air; bird; black; body; bowman; colonel; commander; control; death; doctor; door; enemy; eyes; face; feet; figure; floor; glass; god; gun; half; hand; hay; head; hemmy; hero; keith; know; lance; left; look; man; mcguire; men; minutes; moment; nelson; new; nx-1; octopi; plane; praed; ray; red; right; room; saw; sea; ship; shot; sir; speed; submarine; tentacles; thought; time; voice; water; way; wells; world cache: 30124.txt plain text: 30124.txt item: #20 of 31 id: 30166 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, March, 1931 date: None words: 83176 flesch: 89 summary: Other men were nearby, watching. Other men were appearing from outside. keywords: air; alan; alden; arms; astounding; away; babs; black; blue; body; charlie; come; dark; dear; death; door; drug; eddie; editor; eyes; face; father; feet; fiction; figure; floor; foot; garry; george; giles; girl; glora; golden; good; half; hand; head; hero; horab; kent; lay; light; lina; look; magazine; man; mind; moment; nelson; new; polter; rock; room; science; shelton; size; stone; stories; thing; thought; time; voice; wall; white; world; years cache: 30166.txt plain text: 30166.txt item: #21 of 31 id: 30177 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 date: None words: 80347 flesch: 86 summary: Historians deal with facts, with accomplishments, with dates and places and the names of great men. A round door showed sharp edges in the gray metal, but only the strength of many men could have removed its huge bolts, and these two knew there must be other doors to seal in the mighty charge. keywords: = =; air; arlok; body; captain; chief; city; course; day; delamater; denham; diane; dimension; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; floor; globe; golden; good; gordon; gun; half; hand; head; herr; holtz; know; laboratory; larry; leah; man; mcguire; men; metal; moment; people; place; professor; reames; red; right; room; set; ship; smithers; space; stevens; stories; thing; thought; time; tommy; von; way; white; work; world cache: 30177.txt plain text: 30177.txt item: #22 of 31 id: 30452 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, April, 1931 date: None words: 82875 flesch: 88 summary: Lambert, shivering and shaking with pain, was aware that great eyes, similar to those which they had thought they saw above, were now upon them. Great metal arms were gathering Mary and me from the ground. keywords: air; alten; black; body; borer; cage; cavern; city; correy; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; girl; good; guinness; half; hand; head; joyce; lambert; lanier; larry; light; little; machine; man; martian; matter; metal; milton; moment; monster; new; phil; place; professor; quade; randall; ray; red; room; sound; space; stories; story; sue; thing; time; voice; water; way; white; world; worm cache: 30452.txt plain text: 30452.txt item: #23 of 31 id: 30532 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, May, 1931 date: None words: 82031 flesch: 88 summary: It was Bullard's right--a master pilot could take control at any time--but Harkness stared in amazement as the other lifted the ship, then swung it out over the expanse of ocean beyond--stared until his own eyes followed those of Chet Bullard to see the wall of water that was sweeping toward the land. Chet, he knew, had held them in a free-space level, where they could maneuver as they pleased, but he knew, too, that the pilot's hands were touching levers that swung them at a quite unlawful speed past other ships, and that swept them down in a great curve above the ocean's broad expanse. Older men came, too, and in a screaming mob they threw themselves upon the carcass of the beast that had been dragged into the open. keywords: air; bird; black; body; cage; carnes; chet; dark; diane; dixon; doctor; door; earth; end; eyes; face; feet; girl; good; green; ground; half; hand; harkness; head; high; left; life; light; look; magazine; man; mary; men; metal; migul; miles; moment; moon; new; open; place; ray; red; room; ruth; schwartzmann; science; set; ship; space; speed; stories; story; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; work; world; york cache: 30532.txt plain text: 30532.txt item: #24 of 31 id: 30691 author: Various title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 date: None words: 80812 flesch: 88 summary: Kirby saw Naida still looking down, and felt Ivana crouch against him, fainting. Toward Naida Kirby ran madly but not blindly. keywords: air; ape; arms; aña; basil; bird; body; caciques; carnes; door; duca; earth; eyes; face; feet; girls; going; gold; good; hale; half; hand; head; ivana; jungle; karl; kirby; know; left; life; light; look; man; mcguire; men; mind; moment; naida; new; nini; people; place; red; room; scientist; sea; second; ship; sir; stories; sykes; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; world; zar cache: 30691.txt plain text: 30691.txt item: #25 of 31 id: 31168 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, July, 1931 date: None words: 78058 flesch: 88 summary: The means was simple enough: other men had suggested it years before, in fact. It would put more men to work and I am sure that all of us Readers could scrape up 20c more a month for this wonderful magazine. keywords: abud; air; aten; clee; craig; dan; dark; death; door; earth; eyes; face; feet; figure; find; floor; girl; god; going; half; hand; head; human; ice; jim; keston; larry; left; light; look; machine; man; metal; migul; moment; prescott; priest; professor; ray; robot; room; shabako; stoddard; stories; story; taia; thing; thought; time; tina; tugh; voice; way; wes; white; words; world cache: 31168.txt plain text: 31168.txt item: #26 of 31 id: 31893 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, June, 1931 date: None words: 76359 flesch: 86 summary: Then, mingled with the laughter, the bellowing, frightful and paralyzing, of man apes challenging a hated enemy. What would her reaction be when she opened her eyes to see Manape near her, standing guard over Apeman, with the jungle on all sides filled with the lurking nightmare figures of other great apes? keywords: air; apeman; apes; arms; barter; bentley; black; body; brain; cage; city; door; earth; ellen; end; eyes; face; feet; girl; great; hands; harl; house; human; jungle; larry; lee; lee bentley; left; manape; mary; men; mighty; migul; moment; morones; new; night; olear; paul; place; power; princess; red; robots; room; stories; thing; thought; time; tina; tugh; voice; way; white; words; world cache: 31893.txt plain text: 31893.txt item: #27 of 31 id: 33016 author: Various title: Astounding Stories, August, 1931 date: None words: 79501 flesch: 87 summary: I have read many time stories, but his is at the top of my list. There have always been such men. keywords: abbot; air; bart; bird; black; body; carnes; chet; dark; diane; doctor; door; eyes; face; feet; floor; garth; going; good; hagendorff; half; hand; harkness; head; hours; lane; left; light; long; man; men; mich'l; milli; mind; moment; moon; new; open; outside; pilot; power; ray; red; room; schwartzmann; ship; space; stories; story; sun; surface; thing; thought; time; van; voice; water; way; work; world cache: 33016.txt plain text: 33016.txt item: #28 of 31 id: 33662 author: Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) title: A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories date: None words: 52908 flesch: 83 summary: But perhaps, after all, Ellesworth was not wholly to blame for not trying to make his mark; for he was not so strong as other men, as I said before, and had, besides, so thoroughly coddled himself into that belief that useful activity was struck off of his list of possibilities. This ain't the hull of it, young man, she answered severely, taking her corn-cob pipe out of her mouth and looking at Ellesworth as if he had cast an aspersion upon a city. keywords: air; balloon; benson; black; boat; boy; city; colonel; country; day; dollars; ellesworth; eyes; face; father; feet; girl; great; hand; harland; head; high; house; left; life; little; look; man; men; morning; new; night; people; place; president; professor; room; russell; scud; secretary; sir; state; swift; thought; ticks; time; voice; washington; water; way; white; woman; world cache: 33662.txt plain text: 33662.txt item: #29 of 31 id: 41481 author: None title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 date: None words: 75178 flesch: 88 summary: I talked to other men. Farther off in the fog, of course, were other tanks, hundreds of them, fighting machines all, silent and motionless now, but infinitely ready to protect the brain of the army. keywords: air; beetle; body; bram; carnes; cave; chief; clason; coffee; darrow; derek; doctor; dodd; door; earth; enemy; eyes; face; feet; floor; fog; gas; general; girl; ground; half; hand; head; hope; jouret; keane; king; lees; left; light; look; machine; man; men; mind; moment; new; philip; place; quest; red; rohbar; room; shell; sir; small; tanks; thing; thought; time; tommy; voice; way; white; world cache: 41481.txt plain text: 41481.txt item: #30 of 31 id: 6714 author: Rockwood, Roy title: Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane; Or, Daring Adventures over the Great Lake date: None words: 39212 flesch: 90 summary: Dave saw Hiram on a run, headed towards them. Message for Mr. Dave Dashaway, he said. keywords: airship; aviator; business; dale; dashaway; dave; dave dashaway; dawson; drifter; friend; good; grimshaw; hiram; hydroplane; interstate; jerry; king; left; machine; man; men; monarch; people; place; racer; right; run; time cache: 6714.txt plain text: 6714.txt item: #31 of 31 id: 7344 author: Hawthorne, Julian title: Archibald Malmaison date: None words: 35347 flesch: 74 summary: What has Sir Archibald Malmaison to say to me? You called me 'Archibald' just now. At every point she met him with soothing agreement and ingenuous suggestion; and in particular did she echo and foster his enmity against Sir Archibald Malmaison, and urged him forward in his suit, bidding him spare no expense, since success was assured, and affirming her readiness to mortgage her very jewels, if need were, to pay the eminent legal gentlemen who were to conduct the case. keywords: archibald; archibald malmaison; archie; boy; chamber; clarence; come; course; edward; eyes; face; fact; good; hand; kate; lady; life; love; malmaison; man; miss; pennroyal; poor; richard; rollinson; room; sir; sir archibald; time; way; years cache: 7344.txt plain text: 7344.txt