Fictional Materials for OED

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> CNN this a.m.: "The technology does not exist! It's made of unobtainium!"
>

http://goo.gl/LN7zy6

"This happens in the genre so often that there is even a generic word for
it: unobtainium."

Foreward (?) of E[dward] E[lmer] Smith, The Skylark of Space, 1928.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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