John Taine

future history n.	[1930 J. Taine White Lily in Amazing Stories Quarterly Winter 29/1 The ensign and the president were studying his face as attentively as if it were a map of the whole world’s future history.]
ray n.	1930 J. Taine Iron Star (1976) ii. 23 More than one layman in the audience left the hall with the fixed and ineradicable belief that it is possible, by the proper use of the right chemicals or radioactive emanations—‘rays’, in the vague language of the street—so to modify the ductless glands of the human body that physical appearance, sex, character and brain power can be profoundly modified if not wholly transformed.
timestream n.	1931 ‘J. Taine’ Time Stream in Wonder Stories Dec. 837/2 The slightest excess of effort might upset the balance at any point of the time stream, sending them backward into the past or forward into the future independently of my will.