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    Houlihan's Equation
    Houlihan's Equation
    Houlihan's Equation
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    Houlihan's Equation

    By Walter J. Sheldon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Houlihan's Equation - Walter J. Sheldon

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Houlihan's Equation, by Walt Sheldon

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Houlihan's Equation

      Author: Walt Sheldon

      Release Date: June 19, 2009 [EBook #29168]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOULIHAN'S EQUATION ***

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      Every writer must seek his own Flowery Kingdom in imagination's wide demesne, and if that search can begin and end on Earth his problem has been greatly simplified. In post-war Japan Walt Sheldon has found not only serenity, but complete freedom to write undisturbed about the things he treasures most. A one-time Air Force officer, he has turned to fantasy in his lighter moments, to bring us such brightly sparkling little gems as this.

      houlihan's

      equation

      by ... Walt Sheldon

      The tiny spaceship had been built for a journey to a star. But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny—on Earth.

      I must admit that at first I wasn't sure I was hearing those noises. It was in a park near the nuclear propulsion center—a cool, green spot, with the leaves all telling each other to hush, be quiet, and the soft breeze stirring them up again. I had known precisely such a secluded little green sanctuary just over the hill from Mr. Riordan's farm when I was a boy.

      Now it was a place I came to when I had a problem to thrash out. That morning I had been trying to work out an equation to give the coefficient of discharge for the matter in combustion. You may call it gas, if you wish, for we treated it like gas at the center for convenience—as it came from the rocket tubes in our engine.

      Without this coefficient to give

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