Word: paraffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinks that some day overwhelming proof will be forthcoming, hopes science will supply it. So far, "respectable psychic phenomena have been confined to mediums, automatic writing, table tapping, Ouija boards." But there have been "materializations": "ectoplasmic" bodies are seen proceeding from mediums; spirit hands, asked to dip themselves in paraffin, then to dematerialize, leave paraffin gloves...
Prof. Colin Garfield Fink (Columbia University, Electrochemistry) announced last week that he would treat the declining stones?cleansing them to remove bacteria, giving an alkaline bath to immunize them from free salts and acids in the air, filling pores and chinks with melted paraffin and beeswax. This operation will hereafter be needed every few years...