Earth-norm n.
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1938
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John Russell Fearn
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The blood of an Earthling is held in its circulatory tract by gravity fixed at Earth-norm.
Summons from Mars in Amazing Stories Mar. 98/2 -
1943
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Hugh Frazier Parker
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He led them down a succession of corridors to a room where temperature and gravity stood at Earth-norm.
Sword of Johnny Damokles in Planet Stories Mar. 33/1 -
1958
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Robert Silverberg
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Maynard was one of the eighty-six Earth-type worlds strung through the galaxy. It corresponded to Earth-norm within two decimal places.
Wages of Death in Worlds of If Aug. 10/1 -
1970
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Ted White
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Inasmuch as a proper curve had not yet been established for the colonists as a whole, his findings were relevant only to Earth-norm.
By Furies Possessed in Amazing Stories Mar. 24/1 -
1981
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Kendall Evans
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The air is breathable, 100 percent earth-norm, exactly the right percentages of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and smog. This must be Earth, Captain.
Stellar Trek in Amazing Stories Mar. 88
Research requirements
antedating 1938
Earliest cite
John Russell Fearn, in Amazing Stories
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a 1951 cite from Milton Lesser's "'A' as in Android".Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1953 reprint of Hugh Frazier Parker's 1943 "The Sword of Johnny Damokles".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1959 reprint of Robert Silverberg's "The Planet Killers" (originally published in 1957 as "This World Must Die!"
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1973 reprint of Lin Carter's 1972 "Black Legion of Callisto".
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