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Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930

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by Various


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  He turned quickly and was astonished at the sight of [added 'the']

  shook a skinny forefinger [standardized 'fore-finger'] in Tom's face.

  I was successful [was 'successsful'] in business

  His eyes were riveted [standardized 'rivetted'] to an undulating,

  One is that it would be [was 'would me']

  propellers [standardized 'propellors'] ripping into the summer night

  The thing was halfway [standardized 'half-way'] to the high bank

  On some were propellers [standardized 'propellors'].

  the slim shafts with their little propellerlike [standardized'propellorlike'] fans.

  There were others without the propellers; [standardized 'propellors']

  He saw from below the swift plane, [added comma] the streaming,intangible ray

  does not sympathize [was 'symphathize'] with radicals.

  and took up a cigarette. Lighting [was 'Lightning'] it

  The light of the match died, plunging me into a pit of gloom. [was ,]

  more comfort than [was 'that'] a room of grotesque shadows

  familiar [was 'familar'] to him. He had seen it pictured

  throughout the sun-ship, [standardized 'sun ship'] Northwood, goinginto the cabin for fur coats,

  Athalia's [was 'Athania's'] picture was gone.

  He seized a telescope and focused [was 'focusd'] it

  Northwood [was 'Norwood'] narrowed his eyes as

  "Do I guess right," said Northwood, [was ;] "that the light is

  "Yes," said Dr. Mundson. [was 'Munson'] "In your American slang,

  New Eden, [was 'Elden'] where supermen are younger than babes

  while she possessed the freshness of young girlhood, [changed from ;]her skin and eyes

  the iciness [was 'icyness'] was gone from his blue eyes

  you would be disappointed in him, [added ,] especially after having

  which she probably never saw before to-day, [standardized 'today']

  I don't blame Adam for preferring [was 'prefering'] Athalia.

  the atoms of his body seemed to fly asunder. [was 'assunder']

  Every grave that has yawned to receive its prey hides [was 'pray']

  thrust him into Future Time, where the laboratory [was hyphenatedbetween lines as 'labor-ratory']

  there could be no survivors. [standardized 'survivers']

  could receive with any [was 'and'] degree of clarity,

  always passed everyone [standardized 'every one'] who took hiscourses

  that he was allowed to go [was 'do'] about as he pleased.

  I can have a good man rewrite [standardized 're-write'] your drivel

  isn't to-day [standardized 'today'] to that Indian.

  would be necessary to decelerate [was 'decellerate']

  what looked at first [was 'fist'] glance to be a huge artillery shell

  To-day [standardized 'Today'] the human body stands a speed

  A few minutes was enough for [removed duplicate 'for'] me to grasp

  Suppose I was laughed [was 'to laughed'] at when I get back,

  in the chairs of science to-day. [standardized 'today']

  pre-pleistocene [was 'pre-pleistocence'] age--swimming among theinvertebrate

  and, with almost super-human [standardized 'superhuman'] efforts,

  "The swarm's halfway [standardized 'half-way'] to Adelaide," he said.

  "Tommy, there must be water in the station," said [was 'and'] Dodd.

  The entire machine was enclosed [standardized 'inclosed'] in a

  inconspicuousness [was 'inconspicuous'] of his voice and manner

  replied the detective. "Where did you hide the loot?" [was ,]

  a person might [was 'mighty'] cause by passing very rapidly.

  more experience with robberies than [was 'that'] with apprehending

  is closed for to-day. [standardized 'today']

  replied the doctor with a judicial [was 'judical'] air,

  "Are we going to waste the whole afternoon [was 'afternon']

  showed you to be ambidextrous." [was 'ambidexterous']

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