| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: one in the group of men standing about had realised quite how much
money five hundred dollars meant until they saw it thus tallied out
before them.
"All right," said the gambler, taking up the cards.
"Hold on! " cried Orde. "Where's yours?"
"Oh, that's all right," the gambler reassured him. "I'm with the
house. I guess McNeill's credit is good," he laughed.
"That may all be," insisted Orde, "but I'm putting up my good money,
and I expect to see good money put up in return."
They wrangled over this point for some time, but Orde was obstinate.
Finally the gamblers yielded. A canvass of the drawer, helped out
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Ethel gave her head a toss. "Maybe," said she, "once in a while,
even so long ago, a girl wasn't so crazy to get married as folks
thought. Maybe she didn't want him."
"She did want him," said Abby. "A girl doesn't get so pale and
peaked-looking for nothing as Eudora Yates did, after she had
dismissed Harry Lawton and he had gone away, nor haunt the
post-office as she used to, and, when she didn't get a letter, go
away looking as if she would die."
"Maybe," said Ethel, "her folks were opposed."
"Nobody ever opposed Eudora Yates except her own self," replied
Abby. "Her father was dead, and Eudora's ma thought the sun rose
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: certain. The container remained on the ground near the shot-tower
during the detonation. Both the photographer and the monitor received
an estimated radiation exposure between 0.5 and 1 roentgen (1; 7).
The last party to "go in" on shot-day consisted of six men retrieving
neutron detectors. They entered the test area at 1430 hours. Three
of the men went to a point 730 meters south of ground zero to pull out
cables carrying neutron detectors located 550 meters south of ground
zero. The group wore protective clothing and respirators and spent
about 30 minutes in the area. The remaining three men drove as close
as 320 meters southwest of ground zero to retrieve neutron detectors.
They got out of their vehicle only once, at about 460 meters from
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