Word: mediums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...better Christian than the man who frowns on this as sinful, said a Dominican priest last week. The Dutch Reformed Church Synod on Public Immorality in Transvaal, South Africa had condemned lotteries as dishonest, and warned that "calling on God to satisfy our own selfish desires through the medium of lotteries and gambling is profanity and a sacrilege." Father Gerard Marie Antonius Jansen snapped back in the Afrikaans-language Catholic magazine, Die Brug (The Bridge) : "What appears to us as chance or coincidence is no coincidence to God . . . Someone who prays to God to allow him to win a prize...
...throes of a shake-out that Wall Streeters compare to the '29 crash in stocks. With the benefit of hindsight, bond experts lay the blame on Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Eager to stretch out the public debt, i.e., lengthen the maturing period of Government bonds, Anderson brought out medium and long-term bond issues in June, a poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing down. But in June it also...
...calculated on computers, scaled down to slow motion. Says enthusiastic, new-fledged Film Maker Hildebrand: "We're dealing with complex motions and time effects-different molecules doing different things. We explain each molecule before we combine it into the molecule complex. The motion picture is the ideal medium...
...chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral, receive paper limousines, palatial mansions, four servants, a de luxe oceangoing liner, and even a jet airliner. By Taoist belief, when the papers are burned, they become real objects...
Snarevoyance. In Penang, Malaya, Medium Cassim Bin Osman was asked to go into a trance and locate a missing corpse, did so, was convicted of murder...