Word: crystallizer
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...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...
...self-confident was Premier Nahas for he knew he had the whip hand. Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
...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...
...THIRTEENTH BED IN THE BALLROOM-Esther Haven Fonseca-Doubleday, Dor an ($2). An old Southern mansion makes a charming dormitory for young business women, but crystal chandeliers and romantic balconies lose their charm when two girls are found dead in the same ballroom...