What is "bordman"

Usage examples of "bordman".

He was even younger than Bordman, and inclined to lean on the supposedly vast experience of a Senior Officer of the Colonial Survey.

Nothing could be much more inappropriate than palm-tree symbols on a planet with sixty feet of permafrost, Bordman reflected.

That message from the inner planet could be bad, thought Bordman, if the solar constant drops and stays down awhile.

It's natural for me to be disliked by men whose work I inspect, thought Bordman.

He spoke with unnecessary elaboration to the face in the phone-plate, and grudgingly went through the process by which Bordman measured the successive drops in voltage with power drawn from the ionosphere.

This, thought Bordman irritably, is how reputations are made, I suppose.

When she realizes what this means, thought Bordman grimly, she won't admire me so much.

It suddenly occurred to Bordman that she knew a Colonial Survey ship was due to stop by here to pick him up.

If Bordman could in a fashion prime the pump, if he could increase the conductivity by increasing the ions present around the place where their charges were drawn away, he could increase the total flow.

Such a rocket with its loading slightly changed would do all Bordman had in mind.

It was almost purple, and it seemed to Bordman that he could detect faint flecks of light in it.

Passenger service was not yet authorized to the planet, and would not be until Bordman had made the report he was on his way to compile.

It was extraordinary that a girl could be so self-sufficient on a tedious space-voyage, and Bordman approved of her.

Now she tilted her head on one side as she looked inquiringly at Bordman.

That field suddenly dropped to nothingness, and Bordman had the momentary sickish dizziness that flicked-off gravity always produces.