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Word: besterman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another spiritualist development of last week was the resignation ol Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the British Society for Psychical Research, after 36 years membership. Reason: the flaying, by Theodore Besterman. Secretary of the Society, of a book delineating wonders accomplished by an Italian medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Houdini, Doyle | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

After reviewing the performance of the medium. Besterman concluded: "To put forward such a book as this as a serious contribution to psychical research . . . with such claims of infallibility ... is to bring our subject into contempt and disrepute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Houdini, Doyle | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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