Word: difference
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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...
...terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays and Dr. Vesto Melvin Slipher's cosmic radiation (TIME. May 1). Directional studies show that the hiss must originate near the point in the Milky Way toward which the Sun is rushing Earth and the other planets. Researcher Jansky left...
...purpose of the meeting is to arouse sentiment against the Hitler regime. Thus, the meeting will differ from previous Liberal Club meeting in that it will not be controversial. The members will this time draw their own conclusions. However, some of the University's fasciats are invited to defend Hitler...
...take this occasion to come to TIME's defense and to differ with Janet Lindsay Pollock in her letter concerning Fredric (Bickel) March that is published in the Feb. 20 issue of TIME. TIME states in its Nov. 28 issue, "Fredric March would have been vastly surprised a dozen years ago had anyone predicted that he would ever receive ... the Academy's Approval...
...avoid blows. In addition, blows not in themselves dangerous aggravated the meningo encephalitis [inflammation]." At Albany, New York State Senators chattered about repealing "Mayor" Walker's boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward...