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Will you be my major-domo?" Bucky's heart leaped. He had been thinking of how he must report almost immediately to HurryUp Millikan, of the rangers. Now, he could resign from that body and stay near his love. Certainly things were coming his way. "I'd like to try it, seh," he answered. "I may not make good, but I sure would like to have a chance at it." "Make good! Of course you'll make good.
Second order, atoms extremely short vibrations, such as hard X-rays. Third order, electrons and protons, with their accompanying Millikan, or cosmic, rays. Fourth order, sub-electrons and sub-protons. These, in the material aspect, are supposed to be the particles of the fourth order, and in the energy aspect they are known as Roeser's Rays.
He made elisions and emendations that removed the bedroom scene from the tale. "So that's when yuh met Annie Millikan," Tim said. "I was wonderin' how yuh knew her." "That's when I met her. She's one fine girl, Tim, a sure-enough thoroughbred. She has fought against heavy odds all her life to keep good and honest. And she's done it." "She has that," agreed Mrs. Muldoon heartily.
But you never can tell." "I'm not, Miss. My story's true." Eyes clear as the Arizona sky in a face brown as the Arizona desert looked straight at her. Annie Millikan had never seen a man like this before, so clean and straight and good to look at. From childhood she had been brought up on the fringe of that underworld the atmosphere of which is miasmic. She was impressed in spite of herself.
It may be that in this manner they can divert attention from the drastic findings concerning all religious beliefs that the anthropologists and psychologists are patiently accumulating. "Many physicists and biologists like Pupin, Millikan, Oliver Lodge, J. Arthur Thomson, and Henry Fairfield Osborn, have recently blossomed forth as liberal theologians.
Clay had come to Annie Millikan now because of what she had told him about "Slim" Jim. This man was one of Durand's stand-bys. If there was any underground work to be done it was an odds-on chance that he would be in charge of it. "I'm askin' you to stand by a poor girl that's in trouble," he said in answer to her question. "You've soitainly got a nerve with you. I'll say you have.
"Didn't know there was one." "Sure. Big doings. Monday night. Always have a dance after the spring round-up. Jed and his friends will be there that ought to fetch you!" Dick grinned. "I haven't noticed any pressing invitation to my address yet," said Steve. "I'm extending it right now. Millikan told me to pass the word among the boys. Everybody and his neighbor invited."
Their rays work on an entirely different system than the one we use. They generate an extremely short carrier wave, like the Millikan cosmic ray, by recombining some of the electrons and protons of their disintegrating metal, and upon this wave they impose a pure heat frequency of terrific power.
After dinner the committee of defense met in the Red Room and discussed ways and means. Johnnie and his bride were present because it would have been cruel to exclude them, but for the most part they were silent members. Tim Muldoon arrived with Annie Millikan, both of them somewhat awed by the atmosphere of the big house adjoining the Drive.
Think of a barrier of pure force, impalpable, immaterial, and exerted along a geometrical surface of no thickness whatever and yet actual enough to stop even a Millikan ray that travels a hundred thousand light-years and then goes through twenty-seven feet of solid lead just like it was so much vacuum! That's what we're up against! However, I'm going to try out that model, Mart, right now.
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