Professor Waning Glory takes his new friend Tubby on a trip in a boat that stays always at 9 p.m. in a lofty time-river of some sort, starting at Coney Island, then Chicago, then Denver, and farther west. The professor is able to briefly stop the boat above Chicago, where time for those below stays frozen at 9 p.m., and when their boat crosses the 180° meridian, they travel back a day. Eventually, they arrive back at their starting point on Coney Island, where it is still 9 p.m.
—Michael Main
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

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  1. “The Time Professor” by Ray Cummings, in Argosy, 1 January 1921.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ray Cummings