Ray Cummings
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| beam weapon n. | [1931 White Invaders in Astounding Stories Dec. 348 The green light-beam weapons were merely another application of the same principle…. The light-beams were swift and violent in their action.] |
| earth person n. | 1922 Fire People in Argosy All-Story Weekly 21 Oct. 496/1 The girl’s memory was extraordinarily retentive, far more retentive than is the case with any normal earth person. |
| glassite n. | 1930 Brigands of Moon in Astounding Stories Mar. 314/2 The dome roof, with the glassite windows rolled back now, rose in a mound-peak to cover this highest middle portion of the vessel. |
| gravity plate n. | 1932 Wandl, the Invader in Astounding Stories 201/1 The bow gravity-plates slid into the repulsive-force positions. |
| moon base n. | 1932 Wandl, the Invader in Astounding Stories May 249/2 It was for this the hovering Wandl fleet was waiting—holding off from conflict until this Moon base was ready. |
| needle-beam n. | 1930 Brigands of the Moon in Astounding Stories of Super-Science Mar. 347/1 Miko was bending over him. Miko with a heat-cylinder no longer than a finger. Its needle-beam played upon Snap’s naked chest. I could see the gruesome little trail of smoke rising. |
| ray projector n. | [1922 Fire People in Argosy All-Story Weekly 28 Oct. 700/1 Mercer had been killed by a tiny light-ray projector, with a short, effective radius, aimed probably like a revolver.] |
| space force n. | 1932 Wandl, the Invader in Astounding Stories May 244 The masters of Wandl immediately recognized the paramount importance of the coming battle in space, and promptly sent more space-forces off. |
| space gun n. 2 | 1932 Wandl, the Invader in Astounding Stories Apr. 251/2 A haze like glowing stardust, or the radiance from a comet’s tail, was spread…no doubt the released electrons and the dissipating gases of the space guns and exploding projectiles. |
| space vehicle n. | 1928 Giant World in Weird Tales Mar. 393/1 Mart Gryce and his sister Frannie…voyage to a distant world to rescue Brett Gryce, traveling in a space-vehicle that can go through space and time. |
| starway n. | 1932 Wandl, the Invader in Astounding Stories May 247/2 The terror of the starways, your worlds called me. |