Samuel Mines

“ Curtis said as they began to walk down the path. "The female of the species wishes to be conquered. Hence, whatever her intellectual endowments, instinct triumphs over intellect and she succumbs to the animal magnetism of brute force."
"But it's Clarissa!" Professor Dexter said weakly.
"Even Clarissa. Oh, of course if she married him she would soon awake to her horrible mistake. She would weary of an endless conversation about basketball and foot racing. She would yearn for the rarified heights of our discussions. ”

“ Two identical machines stood near each other on the lab floor, shining cathode tubes poised like a pair of futuristic ray guns.
In all this time they had no word from Professor Clarissa Wilkins.
"Probably baking cookies for Jake Donahue," Dexter said bitterly.
"If he eats enough of them he'll get fat and lose his figure," Curtis said. "But it would take too long."
They finished early one afternoon and by common consent made their plans to go through with the experiment the next morning. Though neither man would admit it they were just a little scared. They went home and made their wills. ”

“ Excitement began to pop in Professor Curtis' voluable face.
"You did it?" he stammered.
"I did it. Needing only reduced power, I scaled down the cyclotron and incorporated the electron stream in this cathode tube. What I have here is essentially a pocket-sized cyclotron which I am satisfied will have no lethal effect upon living tissue."
"But what will it do?"
Professor Dexter shrugged bony shoulders.
"Anything. By exerting the proper kind of force on the electrons I can crowd them together, thus reducing anything in size. ”

“ Professor Dexter said, snapping on the lights in his laboratory, "is to shift my research away from destructive metallurgy and turn the light of new atom discoveries upon protoplasmic tissue. If the atoms of metal can be shifted, altered or broken apart, why not living tissue?" ”

“ Clarissa transferred the plate of cookies to his side. He munched. And a surprising thing happened. Mere muscle could never triumph over intellect, yet the Professors Dexter and Curtis found themselves pocketed, side-tracked and elbowed aside. ”

“ The darkness was alive with the richness of new grass, the vagrant perfumes of verbena, alyssum, calendula, nemophila and ageratum, not to mention lobelia, mignonette, nicotiana, scabiosa, Kochia and salpiglossis. ”