My father and mother, for instance, were still alive in 1938. If I could break away from whatever it was that kept pulling me jumpily through time, I could go and see them.
"The Old Die Rich"
Horace Leonard Gold
He knew he had work of a sort: at one time he was bringing food to gaunt-eyed tickler-mounted humans working feverishly in a production line-human hands and tickler claws working together in a blur of rapidity on silvery mechanisms that moved along jumpily on a great belt; at another he was sweeping piles of metal scraps and garbage down a gray corridor.
"The Creature from Cleveland Depths"
Fritz Reuter Leiber
The compass was oscillating less jumpily, and it was now possible to see some distance ahead.
"Round the World in Seven Days"
Herbert Strang