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...nothing during the year, because the conjunction of the stars was sinister for him. And I am sure that he was answering me in his speech of last October when he declared: 'We are strong enough to defy Destiny.' And he has defied it, with a bad astral conjunction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Premier's Privat | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...prefers to call supernormal. They answer to "higher" psychic laws, would probably be objects of widespread scientific research if scientists were not afraid to confess how staggered they are by what goes on in seances. Mr. Carrington apparently accepts everything in the spiritualist showcases from crystal-gazing to astral projections and ghosts (which he prefers to call phantasms) on what he deems an overwhelming weight of sound evidence and reliable testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghosts, No Ghosts | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...Reconstruction days after the Civil War good housewives bought "Pratt's Astral Oil," a clear-burning, high-grade brand of kerosene refined on Long Island by two bright young men named Charles Pratt and H. H. Rogers. John Rockefeller bought out their firm in 1874, taking the two partners with him. At that time Herbert Lee Pratt was a three-year-old in the oilman's large family. When he was 23 and his father had grown exceedingly rich as a Rockefeller henchman. Son Herbert was graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1895 along with Dwight Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jun. 10, 1935 | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

Plan of Resurrection is ingenious, Proustian-with a Gerhardi difference. Written in the undisguised first person (though the other characters have pseudonyms), it tells how a brief experience of roaming in his astral body set him buttonholing his acquaintances at a London ball, telling them all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Experience | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Open Nights" at the Observatory, which are sponsored by the Bond Astronomical Club for the purpose of acquainting the public with astral phenomena, will this year be four in number. On Tuesday, November 7. Fletcher Watson. Jr., will discuss "Meteor Showers": on Thursday, November 9. "The Planets" will be the subject of Loring B. Andrews '26, instructor in Astronomy; and on Monday, November 13. Dr. F.L. Whipple will end the series with a talk on "Comets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY TO BEGIN SERIES OF OPEN NIGHTS | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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