Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief emphasis of the exhibit is on the skill of the European artisans shown in small objects of decorative and practical use. Represented are crafts of tapestry-weaving, goldsmithing, enameling, bronze-casting, carving in crystal and other precious stones, steel works, and book making...
...remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings, 18th Century French furniture, carvings, crystal, glass, porcelain, cloisonné, tapestries, chandeliers. Last week the contents of the house, even the iron footscrapers and carriage umbrellas, were up for public Auction...
Dealers and collectors thronged the scarlet and gold ballroom, where nine rock crystal chandeliers festooned with crystal drops glittered over their heads. British Broadcasting Corp. had decided that the proceedings merited a national hearing. Art-lovers listening in heard the voice of a commentator but little else, because bids were indicated by a flick of an eyebrow or pencil, and also because the announcer was enclosed in a soundproof booth. At the end of three days, the sale's returns stood...
...proposed financing is completed all Hearst magazines will be lumped in one package, Hearst Magazines Inc. What may look like simplicity to Mr. Hearst and his chief legal lieutenant, John Francis Neylan, would still look complex to the layman. But in the case of Hearst Magazines one thing is crystal clear: Mr. Hearst needs cash...
...years ago. It means perception of matter or of images in another person's mind without the aid of the ordinary senses-in other words, clairvoyance and telepathy. The fact that extrasensory perception is an increasingly familiar concept among people who pay no attention to crystal-gazers and swamis is largely due to the rigorously controlled, long-continued experiments at Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope to designate not only telepathy and clairvoyance but any other "unusual capacities of mind that...