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page 8 EFTY-NINE Yesterday's[[?]] Ten Thousand Years - T. O'Conor Sloane Anthology - "Personally we feel that interplanetary travel will never be achieved." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Dec. 1929 -o- "We presume that we acknowledge ignorance when we say that we have knowledge of who Andy Gump or who Geo. Bungle is." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Aug. 1933 -o- "Sulphuric acid was obtained from iron pyrites and as it was of oily appearance when concentrated, it was called oil of vitriol. Why the term, vitriol, interpreted as glassy, was used, is not very clear. It probably referred to its glassy appearance........ One comfort about the ancient nomenclature is that so few chemical compounds were known that the names were short. There were no such names as diazoaminobenzene, and that is a very short name as chemical names are." --Editorial, "The Old and the New Atom", Amazing Stories, June 1935 The "glassy" derivation probably was first applied to the heavy metal sulfates (e.g., FeSo[[sub]]4, "Green Vitriol") from which the acid could be prepared. -o- "The name 'mercury' which it now has, expresses perhaps its activity, for the mythological god, Mercury, was supposed to be a very lively individual." --Ibid. Mythological? Hey, purists! -o- "As regards the pronunciation of scientifiction the less time you devote to pronouncing it, the better it will be. It is not a true word and the correct idea can be expressed by the term science-fiction. --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Mar. 1933 TBYerke please copy! -o- "We are sure our readers do not like Jelfel's personality, but our author in this concluding portion brings his story to a satisfactory ending in spite of this disagreeable character." --blurb for "Liners of Time" (JFRearn), Amazing Stories, July 1935 -o- "One misguided individual, William Shaw by name, carried out the decimal [pi] to seven hundred and seven places, more numbers than there are words on this page [Hornig would never had made an admission like that!]. He could have been better employed. His name might be spelled Pshaw (See Webster's Dictionary)." --Editorial, "Numbers ,Lines, Areas and Volumes", Amazing Stories, Aug. 1935 Any relation, LTS? -o-
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page 8 EFTY-NINE Yesterday's[[?]] Ten Thousand Years - T. O'Conor Sloane Anthology - "Personally we feel that interplanetary travel will never be achieved." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Dec. 1929 -o- "We presume that we acknowledge ignorance when we say that we have knowledge of who Andy Gump or who Geo. Bungle is." --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Aug. 1933 -o- "Sulphuric acid was obtained from iron pyrites and as it was of oily appearance when concentrated, it was called oil of vitriol. Why the term, vitriol, interpreted as glassy, was used, is not very clear. It probably referred to its glassy appearance........ One comfort about the ancient nomenclature is that so few chemical compounds were known that the names were short. There were no such names as diazoaminobenzene, and that is a very short name as chemical names are." --Editorial, "The Old and the New Atom", Amazing Stories, June 1935 The "glassy" derivation probably was first applied to the heavy metal sulfates (e.g., FeSo[[sub]]4, "Green Vitriol") from which the acid could be prepared. -o- "The name 'mercury' which it now has, expresses perhaps its activity, for the mythological god, Mercury, was supposed to be a very lively individual." --Ibid. Mythological? Hey, purists! -o- "As regards the pronunciation of scientifiction the less time you devote to pronouncing it, the better it will be. It is not a true word and the correct idea can be expressed by the term science-fiction. --Discussions, Amazing Stories, Mar. 1933 TBYerke please copy! -o- "We are sure our readers do not like Jelfel's personality, but our author in this concluding portion brings his story to a satisfactory ending in spite of this disagreeable character." --blurb for "Liners of Time" (JFRearn), Amazing Stories, July 1935 -o- "One misguided individual, William Shaw by name, carried out the decimal [pi] to seven hundred and seven places, more numbers than there are words on this page [Hornig would never had made an admission like that!]. He could have been better employed. His name might be spelled Pshaw (See Webster's Dictionary)." --Editorial, "Numbers ,Lines, Areas and Volumes", Amazing Stories, Aug. 1935 Any relation, LTS? -o-
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