Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of the Finnish bath as a conditioning medium was not appreciated by American athletes until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola...
From this first known case of spiritualistic trickery, down until the famous expose of "Margery" by Harry Houdini at Symphony Hall last winter, mediums, mind readers, and fortune tellers have invariably been discovered as false. Mr. Dunworth cited the interesting case of Mrs. Thompson, a well known medium who professed to be capable of producing a mysterious substance from the spirit world which she called Ectoplasm. At one of her seances she unfortunately wrapped the Ectoplasm around the neck of an extreme skeptic. The suspicious gentleman promptly bit into the substance to discover its nature, whereupon Mrs. Thompson screamed...
...actual demonstrations, Mr. Dunworth intends to show that trickery is quite possible in this field, but it is not his intention to deride the true medium or believer in spiritualism...
Last winter Harry Houdini, famous magician, gave a demonstration at Symphony Hall wherein he tried to prove that "Margery," noted medium, was a fraud. Mr. Dunworth will show tonight, in the same manner, how other tricks by mediums are done. The title of his address is "Spiritism, an Instructive and Educational Expose...
...eight months of 1925, car production has been 6% ahead of 1924, despite the recent significant falling off in the sale of Fords while the model for the latter was being changed. As against 1924 the output of low-priced cars gained 3%, medium-priced cars 26%, and high-priced cars...