Word: astral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass shade fitted for electric light), a phanerogam, the original model of Emmons' "Pelvi-phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete...
...only dog in the whole world who can read your mind." Sanjean told the audience that the "only reason telepathy isn't more widely recognized is that peope are on different wave-lengths." This meshed nicely with the assurance Bey's interpreter gave before the program that the "astral, or soul body is the force that binds the chemical body to God. And Bey, by completely mastering the astral body, loosens the silver chord and goes into the world beyond...
...Astral Speedometer. The redshift was first discovered by Edwin P. Hubble, most famous of the Palomar astronomers, and on it he based his startling theory of "the expanding universe." The spectrum of an astronomical object (a star or nebula) shows numerous bright or dark lines, each representing light of a certain wave length. If the object is stationary in relation to the earth, the lines are in the same places as in the spectrum of the sun. But if it is moving away from the earth, the lines shift toward the red end of the spectrum, because the receding motion...
...that wispy-haired little Painter Chagall will ever know. Since 1910, when he left Russia and its harrowing threat of pogroms for Paris, he had never really settled down. Haunted by his memories and searching for escape, he found it only in his unearthly, richly colored paintings, more like astral visions than the real world, with ghostly men & women, wandering violins, fish, cows and roosters floating across them like derelict balloons...