Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acid Trick...
...copies of TIME have piled up, as I have been traveling, and am at the moment in Sydney, Australia. Hence the delay in taking up the letters in TIME, July 13, regarding the Yogi's trick...
...have seen things in our own back garden (nothing so sensational as levitation) which were most fascinating and inexplicable. But the best of these "tricks" was one which was done before a group of us in Madras a few years ago. The particular performer was not fully of the holy man type of the person concerned in the levitation. However, he did something which was fairly a test of his capacity, for he drank a teaspoonful of undiluted nitric acid. It was not his nitric acid, but some supplied from our college laboratory. He drank first about a wineglassful...
...running expenses of the Government under the Hoover Administration were about 3⅔; billions a year. The New Deal reports ordinary expenditures, exclusive of relief and recovery, of less than 4 billions a year. In order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been...
...Kemp and his orchestra are on the stage and also the usual number of semi vaudeville acts. Don't miss the man who rides the trick hicycle...