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...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...
Engulfing, like a tidal wave...
...Other evidence of the existence of a large body of land west of Axel Heiberg Land has been "found" in studies of ice formations that seemed to have passed over shoals; in tidal variations observed in Greenland and Alaska; in the mystery surrounding the nesting habitat of certain migratory birds. Should a new continent be discovered, its chief importance might be. 1) for the establishment of air-routes between Europe and Eastern Asia via the Pole; 2) for the land body's influence on North American weather conditions...
...life out on the rounded tidal boulders...
...Majestic. The Marxians are so very funny, and the rest of the performance is so extremely dull that, It is difficult to see the music; save as foils. Once the four brothers get under way, however, the complementary portions of the revue are swept along on a tidal wave of applause...