Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like other groups, Spiritualists are incorporated where state laws require it. Hence they may perform religious marriage ceremonies (which do not differ from those of other Christian sects). Spiritualists resent being classed with fortune-tellers and crystal-gazers (while professional magicians delight thus to classify them). Church services are usually on Sunday night, with hymn-singing, invocation, Bible-reading, lecture and-central feature which Spiritualists regard as their "Communion"-a séance. With the minister or a visiting medium officiating, messages are received from the other world. The congregation may applaud, chat. Cheeriness is the note...
...strike at cold. Professor Giauque used gadolinium sulfate octahydrate, a colorless crystal substance derived from a rare earth metal. This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert...
...Comstock in 1895. Before the train snorted on, Messrs. Hoover and Mills and Mrs. Mills climbed into the locomotive's cab. Mrs. Hoover and Manhattan's onetime Congresswoman Ruth Pratt stayed behind in the coach. At Virginia City the party visited the famed crystal bar of the Washoe Club. Mr. Mills's grandfather had once signed its register. Many a Silver King in Nevada's great days had stood up to its bar. Mr. Hoover stepped up to sign the register, saw that photographers were setting up their cameras. He said, "Not now. No pictures...
...demolished or abandoned. It showed clearly that profits had been overstated, that payments of dividends to stockholders (of which Founder Bush is the largest) had been continued long after profits and the company's financial condition justified. Not mentioned in the report but long discussed in Manhattan was crystal-gazing Marion Spore's interest in her husband's business affairs, of strange policies emanating from the Bush apartment, mysterious orders that went out to the Bush organization...
...Boldyreff, Battle Creek, Mich.; J. R. Brewster, Andover, Mass.; John Butler, Wakefield, Mass.; G. K. Chalmers, So. Hadley, Mass.; M. L. Chan, Tsingtao, China; Tsung-Yuang Chang, Anhin, China; Isiah Chase, West Roxbury, Mass.; D. L. Cherry, Watsonville, Cal.; F. H. Clark, Hyde Park, Mass.; R. E. Dees, Crystal Springs, Miss.; J. H. Denison, Jr., New York, N.Y.; A. I. Dixon, Reading, Mass.; W. E. Dodd, Jr., Chicago, Ill; M. A. Dolliver, Manset, Me.; J. W. R. Dow, Chicago, Ill.; W. A. Fowlie, Brookline, Mass.; A. R. Fulton, Geneva, N.Y.; W. C. Gutterson, Weymouth, Mass.; Miles Hanson, Jr., Weston, Mass...