"If"	poem by Rudyard Kipling which includes the following verse:
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch.
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!"
See also Kipling in this glossary.	
"physician heal thyself"	a biblical proverb meaning that people should take care of their own defects and not just correct the faults of others. According to the gospels of Luke and Matthew, Jesus said he expected to hear this proverb from the people of his home town of Nazareth, because they would want him to work miracles there, as he had in other towns nearby.	
(stark, staring insane)	wholly insane, with eyes wide open and fixed.	
(stark, staring mad)	wholly insane, with eyes wide open and fixed.	
.22 bullet	a bullet which is .22 inches in diameter, used in rifles or pistols with a barrel of the same size. 	
.45	a pistol which loads automatically and fires each time the trigger is pulled, with nothing further required of the shooter. The .45 refers to the caliber, or diameter of the bullet, which is .45 inch.	
.45 automatic	a pistol which loads automatically and fires each time the trigger is pulled, with nothing further required of the shooter. The .45 refers to the caliber, or diameter of the bullet, which is .45 inch.	
‘ad	(dialect) had.	
‘adn't	(dialect) hadn't	
‘ard	(dialect) hard.	
‘arf	(slang) half	
‘ead	(dialect) head.	
‘eadache	(dialect) headache.	
‘its	short for the Interstate Commerce Commission.  A Federal commission created in 1887 to regulate commerce among the States.  It has eleven members, appointed by the President.	
”C” movie	a movie that is of inferior status or quality.	
155s	short for 155-millimeter artillery guns; heavy-artillery pieces weighing 15 tons and firing a 95-pound projectile to a range of about 14 miles.	
15th Street in Washington	a reference to the FCDC HGC, located at 2315 15th Street, NW, Washington. The FCDC was located four streets away on 19th Street.
See also FCDC in this glossary.	
1682‑44‑ump	a made‑up name for a form.	
16mm	a type of cinematography film which measures 16 millimeters in width.	
17th Street	the name of the street in Washington, DC, where ACCs were earlier held in a rented building.	
18-inch gun	large, heavy gun with a barrel 18 inches in diameter.	
18-inch naval cannon	a large, heavy gun that has a relatively short, 18-inch diameter barrel and is mounted on a ship.	
1917 Revolution	same as Russian Revolution: a revolution in Russia (19171918) that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist Party, to power.  The revolution was encouraged by Russian setbacks in World War I.	
1984	a reference to the satirical novel entitled 1984 by English novelist George Orwell (1903‑1950). Set in the society of the future, it is the story of a man and a girl who rebel. In this terrifying society there is no place for truth, for historical records are destroyed and propaganda replaces information. Thought and love are punished, while privacy is impossible. Placards everywhere say: "Big Brother is watching you."	
20-millimeter machine gun	a machine gun having a bore (inside-barrel diameter) of twenty millimeters.	
20th ACC	short for 20th American Advanced Clinical Course; given by Ron in Washington, DC, 14 July‑15 August 1958.	
22s	American M22 light tanks used in World War II. M is a designation used in the numbers for tanks.	
250 Old Brompton Road	L. Ron Hubbard's home in a southwestern district of London, England in the 1950s.	
30 Marlborough Place	the location of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists in London in the early 50s.	
35-millimeter slides	slides made from film of a 35-millimeter width.	
37 Fitzroy Street, West 1	the address of HASI in London from April 1957 through the 1960s.	
42 Aberdeen Road	L. Ron Hubbard's home in Elizabeth, New Jersey (on the east coast of the United States), where he began teaching Dianetics auditing in 1950.	
42nd Street	a busy street in the heart of New York City.	
7 1/2	a reference to recording tape which runs at 71/2inches per second, a lowspeed setting for a tape recorder (the high-speed setting being 15).	
88s	88-millimeter antiaircraft, antitank guns, well known for their use by Germany in World War II.	
8‑millimeter	of or pertaining to the smallest of the narrow‑gauge films used for motion‑picture photography. It has a single row of perforation holes down one edge of a film 8 millimeters wide.	
910 North Yale, Wichita, Kansas	the address of L. Ron Hubbard's home from May, 1951 until the end of March, 1952.	
a skull-buster	(slang) something that taxes the mind; a complicated problem.	
Abbott	Abbott Laboratories, a major US pharmaceutical manufacturer which produces and distributes a variety of medical drugs as well as highly dangerous and destructive "psychiatric" drugs.	
aber nicht!	(German) but no!	
abril	(Spanish) April.	
abstranormity	a coined word from abstract, considered apart from concrete existence and enormity, enormous size or extent.	
Abyssinian	of the ancient region, Abyssinia, located in northeast Africa, bordering on Egypt and the Red Sea. It is now called Ethiopia.	
Acacia Manor	a made-up name for a house.	
ace of spades, black as the	(colloquial) very black.	
ace of, within an	almost but not quite; very close to; nearly.	
aces up	(slang) in a good or profitable position.	
Achilles' heel	a portion, spot, area or the like, that is especially or solely vulnerable. In Greek mythology, Achilles was an illustrious Greek warrior. He had been dipped in the river Styx (one of the mythological rivers of hell) by his mother, which rendered him invulnerable except in the heel by which she held him. He was fatally wounded by an arrow in that heel.	
A-chord major	(music) a combination of 3 or more notes sounded together in harmony in the key (a system of related notes in music based on a particular note) of A major.	
ack-ack	(slang) antiaircraft fire. It comes from the British telephone code AA, which is the abbreviation for antiaircraft.	
Acre	seaport city of Israel, now called 'Akko. Acre has been sieged numerous times throughout its history: it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104, recovered in 1187 by Sultan Saladin (Sultan of Egypt and Syria), and retaken in 1191 by Richard I of England and Philip of France at a cost of 100,000 men.	
ad absurdum	(Latin) to the point of ridiculousness.  Literally means to absurdity.	
Adam and Eve	in the Bible, the first man and the first woman. The first book of the Bible tells that God created Adam by breathing life into the "dust of the ground." Later, God created Eve from Adam's rib. God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, telling them that they could eat the fruit of all the trees in the garden except the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They lived happily until the serpent, Satan, tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. She ate, and gave the fruit to Adam, who also ate; they immediately became aware and ashamed of their nakedness. Because of Adam and Eve's disobedience, God drove them from the garden into the world outside. After their expulsion, Eve gave birth to sons, first Cain and Abel, and then Seth, and thus Adam and Eve became the parents of mankind.	
Adam, don't know (one) from	do not know (one) at all.	
additity	a coined word from addition, something added and -ity, a suffix meaning state or quality.	
Adenauer	Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), the first chancellor (prime minister) from 1949 to 1963 and main architect of the West German federal republic. He was involved in a bitterly fought election campaign in 1961 which weakened his position abroad and at the conference table.	
Adler	Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Viennese psychologist and psychiatrist who opposed Freud's emphasis on sex and advanced his own theory of the inferiority complex to explain psychopathic cases.	
Aesculapian	(Roman mythology) of Aesculapius, the Roman god of medicine and healing.	
Aesculapians	(Roman mythology) followers of Aesculapius, the Roman god of medicine and healing.	
Aesop	(ca. 620‑560 B.C.) Greek writer of fables, known as Aesop's Fables, which were largely concerned with talking animals illustrating human vices, follies and virtues.	
affaires du coeur	(French) love affairs. Literally means affairs of the heart.	
Afrika Korps	the name of the German troops under Rommel in Africa during World War II. There were several battles during 1941 and 1942 between the Germans and the Allies. They were defeated by the Allies in 1942.
See also Rommel in this glossary.
	
Afrikaner	(Dutch) a South African of European ancestry, especially one of Dutch ancestry.	
age, coming of	(informal) becoming fully developed or mature. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
agin	(dialect) against.	
Agincourt	a village in northern France; site of a battle (1415) won by England in the Hundred Years' War with France that lasted from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth.	
Ain't Necessarily So	reference to the song "It Ain't Necessarily So" written by Ira and George Gershwin in 1935 for their opera Porgy and Bess, which depicted life in the black community of Charleston, South Carolina.	
air, out of thin	(informal) from nothing; from nowhere.	
air, takes the	is spread about among people; becomes known to others.	
Akhenaton	a pharaoh in Egypt (ruled 1372-1354 B.C.). He was a religious innovator who abolished polytheism (belief in more than one god or in many gods), holding that the sun alone was God and he was the sun's physical son.	
Aladdin's lamps	magic lamps, such as the lamp found by Aladdin, a boy in the Arabian Nights, with which he could call up a jinni to do his bidding.	
Alaska	the least populated state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.	
Alba, Duke of	a made-up name for a duke. Alba is a town in northeastern Italy.	
Alcatraz	a small island in San Francisco Bay (on the Pacific coast of California, United States) which was the site of a federal prison (19341963). Escape from the prison was difficult because it was separated from the mainland by more than one mile of water with strong tidal currents racing in and out of the bay.	
Alcoholics Anonymous	an organization of alcoholics (persons suffering from the habitual or compulsive consumption of alcoholic liquor to excess) whose purpose is to stay sober and help others recover from alcoholism. Members of this organization say, "For the alcoholic, one drink is too many, and a hundred are not enough." They believe that it is not possible for an alcoholic to be cured.	
Alcoholics Synonymous	a humorous reference to Alcoholics Anonymous.
See also Alcoholics Anonymous in this glossary.	
Alexander	Alexander III (356-323 B.C.), also known as Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, an ancient kingdom located in what is now Greece and Yugoslavia. By conquest, he extended an empire which reached from Greece to India.	
Alexander the Fourth	reference to Alexander VI (ca. 1430-1503), pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1492-1503), who became notorious as a corrupt and worldly pope. He showered his illegitimate children, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, with money and favors.	
Alexander the Great	Alexander III (356-323 B.c.), king of Macedonia, an ancient kingdom located in what is now Greece and Yugoslavia.  By conquest, he extended an empire which reached from Greece to India.  He is said to have wept because "there were no worlds left to conquer."	
Alexandria	a seaport in northern Egypt, founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great; ancient center of learning. During the fourth century A.D. there were different Christian sects there (two of which were the Homoousians and the Homoiousians) that were violently opposed to each other. Each sect considered persons in the other sects to be heretics.	
Alger, Horatio Jr.	(1832-1899) American author.  Known for his many books in which poor boys become rich through their earnest attitudes and hard work.	
Algerian	of or pertaining to Algeria, a republic in northwest Africa, or its inhabitants. Much of Algeria is arid and sparsely populated, with half of the work force being farmers. The native Muslims, who had been under French rule for over 100 years, started a war for independence in 1954, and Algeria finally became independent in 1962.	
Ali the errand boy of Baghdad	a made-up name for a person. Baghdad is a city in and the capital of Iraq, located in the central part of the country, on the Tigris.	
alidade-amplitude angle dihedral in betwixt	a made-up phrase of words that have meaning but are meaningless in this combination. An alidade is an indicator or sighting apparatus used for measuring angles. Amplitude means "largeness, width, breadth or size." Dihedral is a mathematical term meaning "having or formed by two plane surfaces which meet along an edge." (An example of a dihedral angle is the angle formed by the pages of a book where they join along the spine.) Betwixt is an archaic word meaning "between."	
Allen	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture	
Allied	of or having to do with the Allies, the countries (Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, etc.) which fought against the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.) in World War II (1939-1945).	
Allies	the countries of Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, etc., which fought against the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.) in World War II (1939-1945).	
Alpha Centauri	the brightest star in the constellation Centaurus; the closest visible star to the naked eye, except for the sun.	
alpineer	a person skilled in climbing high mountains, especially the Alps.	
Aluminum Flushboxes Incorporated	a made-up name for a company.	
Aly-al-Allah	(Arabic) God is almighty or almighty God.	
AMA	abbreviation for American Medical Association, a professional physicians' organization, established in 1847, with the stated purpose to promote public health, protect the welfare of doctors and support medical science. Its attacks on Scientology were based on misguided attempts to protect its private healing monopoly and huge medicalpsychiatric income.
See also American Medical Association in this glossary.	
Amarillo, Texas	a city in northwest Texas.	
Ambria	a made-up name for a location.	
American	short for American Magazine: the name of a magazine published in New York from 1905 to 1956.  It was one of the three great masscirculation magazines of the early twentieth century.	
American Airlines	a major American passenger transport airline company founded in 1932.	
American Can Company	a major American manufacturer of tin cans.
	
American Civil War	a conflict lasting four years (1861-1865) in the United States between eleven Southern states, which asserted their right to withdraw from the United States, and the states and territories of the North, which were determined to maintain the Union. The contributing causes included the question of slavery in the South and the extension of it into new territories, as well as sectional rivalry. When the war ended the defeated South was a ruined land.	
American Journal of Psychology	a periodical that presents news in the field of psychology.  Founded in 1887, it was the first psychological journal in the United States.	
American Legion	the largest organization of American veterans, open to those who participated in World Wars I and II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. They often rent their halls out for public events.	
American Management Association	a professional nonprofit association of industrial and commercial companies and executives interested in the solutions of business and management problems, founded in 1922.	
American Medical Association	a professional physicians’ organization, established in 1847, with the stated purpose of promoting public health, protecting the welfare of doctors and supporting medical science.	
American Mess Association	a humorous reference to the American Medical Association.
See also AMA in this glossary.	
American Psychiatric Association	an organization formed in the United States in 1844, as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, by thirteen superintendents of mental hospitals.  It later changed its name to American Psychiatric Association.  It promotes the use of psychiatry, and seeks to protect and forward the vested interests of psychiatrists. . . . 	
American Psychological Association	an association of psychologists and educators whose purpose is to advance psychology as a practice.
See also psychology in this glossary	
American Psychotic Association	a humorous reference to the American Psychiatric Association, an organization formed in the United States in 1844, as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, by thirteen superintendents of mental hospitals. It later changed its name to American Psychiatric Association. It promotes the use of psychiatry and seeks to protect and forward the vested interests of psychiatrists.	
American Red Cross	the American national chapter of the Red Cross: an international organization to care for the sick and wounded in war and to relieve suffering caused by floods, fire, disease and other calamities.  In 1864 the red cross was adopted as an international symbol for neutral aid and this symbol is used by the American Red Cross as well as other medical and relief activities.	
American Society of Chemists	reference to the American Chemical Society which was founded in 1876. It is a scientific and educational society of chemists and chemical engineers.	
American Society of Physicists	reference to the American Institute of Physicists, the largest society of physicists in the United States, founded in 1931 and headquartered in New York. Its stated purpose is to assist in the advancement of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare.	
American Society of Psychologists' Journal	reference to the American Psychologist, a publication of the American Psychological Association (an association of psychologists and educators whose purpose is to advance psychology as a practice). The journal was first published in 1946 and is a monthly publication.	
American Tel & Tel	short for American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a company founded in 1885 to build long distance Telephone lines in the United States.  It has become the largest communication company in the world.	
American Theater Association	a former association for professionals involved in the theater arts which had the purpose of disseminating theater arts and encouraging cultural exchange.	
ammunition hoist	a hoist for supplying ammunition to the guns from where it is stored.	
Ampex 600	brand name of a tape recorder manufactured by Ampex Corporation that was used to record the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course lectures.	
Amtorg	short for Amerikanskaya Torgovlya (Russian-American Trading Company).	
Anamorphic schists are often found most closely blended with hornblende	a significant sounding phrase, used in this lecture with no particular meaning Anamorphic means having to do with the deformation and change in rocks from great pressure and heat deep below the earth's surface. A schist is any metamorphic (characterized by change in the composition of rocks under pressure, heat, chemical action, etc.) rock of a type that splits easily into thin leaves. Hornblende is a darkgreen to black mineral.	
anchor to windward	a measure adopted for security.  From the practice of dropping the anchor of a ship on the windward side (the side from which the wind blows), providing a point of support.	
Ancient Mariner	a character in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which deals with the supernatural punishment and penance of a seaman who had heartlessly shot an albatross, a bird of good omen, in the Antarctic regions.	
And this is very strange because he hadn't any feet	A reference to a part of a poem describing oysters in Through the Looking-Glass, a book by Lewis Carroll:
"Their coats were brushed, their faces washed, Their shoes were clean and neat—And this was odd, because, you know, They hadn't any feet."
See also Carroll, Lewis in this glossary.	
Andalusia	a region in south Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.	
Andersons	persons similar to Kevin Victor Anderson, the single member of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology in the mid-1960s in Victoria (a state in Australia).	
ands, ifs, ores or buts	(informal) special demands or excuses. A Variation of ifs, ands or buts.	
Angell, Wing	a staff member in Washington, DC at the time of this lecture; a former student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.	
angels shouldn't be treading, where	an allusion to the phrase fools rush in where angels fear to tread meaning foolish people are often reckless, attempting feats that the wise avoid. This saying is from "An Essay on Criticism," by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), an English poet of the eighteenth century.	
Annapolis	a seaport in and the capital of the state of Maryland; home of the US Naval Academy.	
anoxemia	a reduction in the normal amount of oxygen in the blood, as at high altitudes.	
antastical	a made‑up word for an item.	
anticommunism	against communism: a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.	
Antietam, Battle of	the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, fought between Union and Confederate troops at Antietam Creek in the state of Maryland on 17 September 1862.	
Antony, Marc	(83-30 B.C.) Roman politician and soldier. In 31 B.C., he was defeated in the civil war between himself and Octavian (the first Roman emperor).	
Apocalypse, Four Horsemen of the	four riders on white, red, black and pale horses, symbolizing the pestilence, war, famine and death which are prophesied in the Apocalypse, or book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament in the Bible. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
apparati	a Latinized plural form of apparatus, a thing necessary to carry out a purpose or for a particular use.	
appetite over tin cup	(slang) a pioneer Western US term used by riverboat men on the Missouri; it means thrown away violently like "head over heels," "bowled over."	
apple, sad	a gloomy person, frequently irritable, introverted, or pessimistic.	
apple, sharp	(slang) a variation of smart apple, an intelligent person; a sagacious (having or showing good judgment; wise) person.	
Aquinas, Saint Thomas	(1226‑1274) Italian religious philosopher who revolutionized the theology and philosophy of his time with his writings on religion and the nature of man. He drew a clear distinction between faith and reason.	
Arab situation	the controversy which exists concerning the area of the Middle East called Palestine. In November 1947, the United Nations divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab sections, and in 1948, the Jewish section of Palestine became the nation of Israel. However, the neighboring Arab states rejected both the partition of Palestine and the existence of the new nation. There have been several wars since that time between Israel and other Arab states concerning the division of Palestine.	
Arabian Nights	a famous collection of Persian, Indian and Arabian folk tales, strung together by the story of Scheherazade, who kept her husband from killing her by telling these stories over 1,001 nights. The best known of these stories are those of Ali Baba, Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin.	
arborvorous, arborvirons	a humorous reference to arborvitae, any of several ornamental or timber-producing evergreen trees of the cypress family, native to North America and eastern Asia.	
Archangel Michael	in Christian legend, the title of the chief opponent of Satan and his angels and the champion of the church of Christ on Earth. An archangel is a chief angel or angel of high rank.	
archimandrite	the head of a monastery or group of monasteries.	
Archimedes spiral	a specific type of spiral, mathematically defined by Archimedes (ca. 287-212 B.C.), Greek mathematician, physicist and inventor.	
Arctic Sea	an ocean north of North America, Asia and the Arctic Circle, mostly covered by solid ice, ice floes and icebergs.	
Arcturus	a very bright star in the northern sky.	
ardure	a coined word meaning strong effort; hard work to accomplish or achieve. Formed from the word arduous, derived from Latin ardu-us, which means "high, steep, difficult."	
ardures	a coined word meaning strong effort; hard work to accomplish or achieve.  Formed from the word arduous, derived from Latin ardu-us, which means "high, steep, difficult."	
Aristotelian	belonging to or having some relation to Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher noted for his works on logic, ethics, politics, etc. Aristotle's book Ethics contains the doctrine that virtue consists in a mean between excess and deficiency. He disagreed with his teacher, Plato (427-347 B.C.) over the existence of ideal forms or ideas, such as truth or good. Plato held that these exist in a realm beyond the material world, while Aristotle believed that form and matter are always joined.
See also Aristotle in this glossary.	
Aristotle	the works of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher noted for his works on logic, ethics, politics, etc.	
Arkansas Special	a made‑up name for a train. Arkansas is a state in the south central United States.	
Armenian	of or having to with Armenia, a region in western Asia divided between the USSR, Turkey and Iran.	
Armstrong-Jones, Tony	Antony Armstrong-Jones (1930- ), a well-known British professional photographer.	
Army Air Forces	the aviation branch of the United States Army before the establishment of the US Air Force.	
Arslycus	an old civilization built in space, not on a planet, where a being spent something like ten thousand lives doing the same job over and over. When he died, he would return because a piece of his body was being held in pawn, then he would be put in another body and put back on the same job. Arslycus finally broke to pieces because it was too great a mass to sustain itself	
arthrosis lumbosis of the psychiatrosis	a made-up name for a disease.	
Arthur	youngest son of L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard.	
articularosis	a made-up name for a disease. From articular, of the joint or joints and -osis, a suffix meaning an abnormal or diseased Condition	
articulo metalosis of the tibia	a made-up phrase for a broken leg. Tibia is Latin for shinbone, the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.	
arty	(colloquial) pretending or striving to be artistic.	
as paint, alive	superlatively alive.	
asbestos	an incombustible, chemical-resistant, fibrous mineral used for insulation, fireproofing, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters and in materials that deaden sound.	
ASDIC	abbreviation for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee, a committee which British sonar was named after.	
Ashdown Forest	a large wooded area near Saint Hill.	
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, thou are dust, to dust thou shalt return	reference to a phrase used in certain burial services to denote total finality. Based upon biblical texts such as "dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return," from the book of Genesis and "I will bring thee to ashes upon the Earth in the sight of all them that behold thee," from the book of Ezekiel.	
Associated Press	a news agency for gathering and distributing foreign and domestic news and photographs to member newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States.	
Astarte	the Phoenician goddess of fertility and erotic love.	
Astor, Mrs. William	the wife of William B. Astor (1792‑1875): the son and heir of John Jacob Astor (1763‑1848), who was the wealthiest man in the United States at the time of his death.	
Astounding Science Fiction	a magazine founded in 1937. LRH wrote many stories for this publication from 1938 to 1950.	
Athens	a leading city of ancient Greece, famous for its learning, culture and democratic institutions. Present capital of Greece.	
athlete's foot	a common fungus infection of the skin of the feet.	
Atlantic Ocean	an ocean bounded by North and South America in the Western Hemisphere and by Europe and Africa in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is approximately 31 million square miles wide with its greatest known depth being over 30,000 feet.	
Atlas	(mythology) one of the Titans who was famous for his strength. After being overthrown by Zeus, Atlas was condemned to support the Earth and sky on his shoulders for eternity.
See also Titans in this glossary.	
Atomic Energy Commission	a former federal agency (1946-1975) created to regulate the development of the US atomic energy program. Its functions were transferred to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1975.	
atomic fission	the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy.  This is the principle of the atomic bomb.	
atomic physicist	a scientist specializing in the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure and component parts of atoms.	
atomic physics	the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure and component parts of atoms.	
atomic submarine	a submarine driven by atomic power, capable of remaining under water for long periods of time.	
attaboy	(slang) an exclamation of approval or encouragement. (A corruption of "that's the boy," this expression is also seen as "that's a boy" and "thataboy.")	
attagirl	(slang) an exclamation of approval or encouragement. (A corruption of "that's the girl," this expression is also seen as "that's a girl" and "thatagirl.")	
Aunt Phybia	a made-up name.	
aurality	a coined term from aural, of or received through the ear or the sense of hearing, and -ity, a suffix meaning state, condition.	
Auricon	(brand name) a line of compact, portable motion picture cameras manufactured by Berendt-Bach.	
Auschwitz	a city in southwestern Poland which was the location of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. This and similar Nazi camps, such as Belsen, were the sites for detention of many millions of people who the Nazis labeled undesirable (most notably the bulk of the Jews of Europe). More than six million people were eventually exterminated in these camps. Those who were not killed outright were ill treated, many subjected to cruel experimentation and torture, and great masses died of disease or starvation.
See also Belsen in this glossary.	
Austin	a car manufactured by Herbert Austin (1866-1941), an English motor car pioneer. His highly successful Baby Austin was the first of a line of small cars which revolutionized the pattern of car manufacture and ownership throughout Europe.	
auto	short for automatic.	
autochrome	(photography) a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green and blue-violet.	
auto‑da‑fé	the public declaration of the judgment passed on persons tried in the courts of the Spanish Inquisition (a court appointed in Spain in 1478 to discover and suppress heresy‑ religious beliefs that the Roman Catholic Church considered to be false), followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed, especially the burning of condemned heretics at the stake. The term literally means "act of the faith."	
autosuggestion	(psychology) suggestion to oneself arising within one's own mind and having effects on one's thinking and bodily functions. 	
Ava	a Seientologist in California at the time of this lecture; a former student on the Saint Hill Speeial Briefing Course.	
Avenging Angels	an alleged secret order of Mormons supposed to have arisen in the early days of that church to act as spies and suppressors of disaffection.
See also Mormon church in this glossary.	
azimuth	a humorous reference to a device used in astronomy and navigation to measure azimuth, an arc measured clockwise from the north point of the horizon (in navigation), or the south point (in astronomy), to the intersection with the horizon of a vertical circle passing through a heavenly body.	
B1	a vitamin, also called thiamine, essential to nerve function.  	
B23, 42, 7	a made-up designation for roads in England.	
B-47s	US jet bombers built by Boeing Airplane Company.	
B-52	a large all-weather intercontinental strategic heavy bomber built by Boeing Airplane Company.	
Baal	the Old Testament term for the deity or deities of Canaan (name for ancient Palestine).  First applied to local gods, it was later the name of the chief deity.  His cult practiced holy prostitution and child sacrifice.  In Israel it was denounced by Hebrew prophets.	
Babies cry for Castoria	reference to a former advertising slogan for Fletcher's Castoria (the brand name for a type of laxative)	
baby carriage, like a	(informal) smoothly and without difficulty.	
Babylon	the capital of an ancient empire called Babylonia which was located in southwest Asia and flourished from 2100 to 538 B.C.	
Bacardi	(trademark) a brand of rum produced by the Compania Ron Bacardi now in the West Indies and originally located in Cuba.  	
Bach	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), outstanding German composer. His vast output includes all types of music current during his time, except opera; he was also a violinist and a renowned organist.	
Bach-Bach we Kill Them All Society of Southern Jungleosis	a made-up name for a group.	
back burner, on the	(colloquial) in or into a condition of low priority or temporary deferment. From the custom in cooking of placing pots not requiring immediate attention toward the rear of the stove	
back to battery	(slang) an artillery term. A gun, after it fires, is said to go out of battery, which is to say, it recoils. Then after it is fired it is supposed to go back to battery, which is sitting the way you see them in photographs. It is used as a slang term to indicate somebody who is now fixed up; he will be all right for something, or what he has had will now be over.	
back, pats on the	(colloquial) praises for something done.	
background music	the accompanying music in a play, motion picture, television program or other show.	
background music	the accompanying music in a play, motion picture, television program or other show.
Used figuratively in these lectures.	
backscreens	reference to the various backdrops generally hung from the ceiling of a photography studio to serve as backgrounds for portraits or other types of studio shots. 	
backwards and forwards	(informal) very well.	
backwash	a place regarded as stagnant, backward, etc. 	
bacon is served	a game or prize is won. A variation of the expression bring home the bacon.	
Bacon, Roger	(1214?-1294) English philosopher and man of science.  He was deeply interested in alchemy and wrote upon alchemical subjects as well as various other aspects of the experimental study of nature.  In modern times he has been considered of particular interest because of his interest in natural science, in experiments and in observation of phenomena.  "It is the intention of philosophy," he said, "to work out the natures and properties of things."	
bacon, save (one's)	(slang) save (one) from injury; help (one) escape from a danger; spare (one) from loss or harm. The expression comes from the care taken by people of earlier times to save the bacon, which was laid up for winter use, from the dogs which frequented their households.	
bad light, in a	with the emphasis on the bad part, e.g., of a person's character. 	
baddy	(slang) a bad or wicked person, especially such a character in a play, movie, etc.	
bag of tricks	(informal) a group of things used for a particular purpose, especially when almost magically effective.	
bag, in a	ruined; destroyed. From the use of a heavy plastic body bag for handling military and other fatal casualties.	
bail (someone) outee	(figurative) release (someone) from difficulty.	
bail out	(slang) abandon an effort, project, relationship, etc., in order to minimize losses. From the aviation use "to parachute from an aircraft."	
bailing (someone) out	(figurative) releasing (someone) from difficulty.	
baked-up	(slang) intoxicated with drugs. 	
Balaklava, the six hundred at	a reference to the famous charge of the Light Brigade (a unit of lightly armed and armored cavalry) at Balaklava, a city in southwestern Russia, during the Crimean War (a war over the domination of southeastern Europe from 1854 to 1856). Owing to a misunderstanding of orders, an English light-cavalry brigade, 670 strong, charged a heavily protected Russian position with utter disregard for the hopelessness of their task. More than two-thirds were killed or wounded. In this lecture Ron makes a play on the similar sounds of Balaklava and balalaika, a Russian stringed instrument somewhat like a guitar but with a triangular body and usually three strings.	
bald	(dialect) bold. 	
balderdash	senseless talk or writing; nonsense.	
ball	a confusion; a muddle; a mess. 	
ball of fire	(slang) a dynamic person capable of or displaying rapid and highly effective thought, action, etc.	
ball, dropped the	(figurative) failed to handle something correctly or completely. An allusion to the American game of football in which a player dropping the ball can result in his team failing to score and the opposing team taking control of the football.	
ball, had a	(colloquial) had great fun; enjoyed (themselves) very much. 	
ball, having (oneself) a	(colloquial) having great fun; enjoying (oneself) very much.	
ball, like a	(colloquial) with great speed; with considerable effectiveness or success. A variation of like a bomb.	
balloon goes up, that's the way the	a variation of that's the way the cookie crumbles.
See also cookie crumbles, that's the way the in this glossary.	
balloon, go to hell in a	deteriorate badly; go downhill. Variation on the phrase go to hell in a handbasket (or a bucket).	
balloon, goes to hell in a	deteriorates badly; goes downhill. Variation on the phrase goes to hell in a handbasket (or bucket).	
balloon, goes up in	(slang) fails or becomes unsuccessful.  A Variation of the phrase goes up in smoke. 	
balloon, going to hell in a	deteriorating badly; going downhill. A variation on the phrase going to hell in a handbasket.	
balloon, going up in a	same as going to hell in a balloon. 
See also balloon, going to hell in a in this glossary. 	
balloon, going up in a small	(colloquial) becoming very angry. A variation of the phrase going up in the air.	
balloon, up went the	(colloquial) the operation, action, battle, affair, excitement, etc., began.	
balloonostatics	a coined word from balloon tire, a broad tire filled with air at low pressure for cushioning the shock of uneven surfaces and used on road vehicles such as bicycles and early automobiles and statics, the branch of mechanics dealing with bodies, masses or forces at rest or in equilibrium.	
ball‑up	(slang) muddle or confusion.	
Balooga-uga-uga-stan	a made-up name for a country. 	
Ban the Bombers	a made-up name for a group which would get rid of nuclear weapons.	
banana split	a dessert consisting of two or three scoops of ice cream placed on a banana sliced down its length, covered with whipped cream, sweet fruits or sauces, nuts and other garnishes. 	
bang (one's) head off	(slang) hit (one) very hard; beat (one) up.  A variation of knock (one's) block off	
bang, like a	(colloquial) a variation of like a hot bomb.
see bomb, like a hot in this glossary.	
bang-up	(informal) very successful; very good; splendid; excellent.	
bank holiday	(British) any of several legal holidays, usually on a Monday, when banks, schools, etc., are closed. 	
Bank of England	the central bank of the United Kingdom, founded in 1694 and located in London. It issues nearly all of the country's bank notes (paper money), handles the nation's foreign exchange operations and cooperates with the British government in influencing business and other financial conditions. It was owned by private stockholders until 1946 when the government bought all its stock.	
Banquo	a character in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. He is a Scottish general who is murdered by order of Macbeth, who sees Banquo as a threat to his security. Later the ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth, terrifying him into a public betrayal of his guilt.	
ban-the-bomb march	a demonstration against the use of nuclear weapons. This type of demonstration has been held in many countries, including the United States. During 1961 in England there were repeated demonstrations, specifically against the stationing of United States missile submarines at British bases.	
Bantu	a member of a large group of Negroid tribes found in equatorial Africa and southern Africa.	
bap	(slang) hit; punch.	
bapped	(slang) hit; punched.	
barber poles, climbing the	looking for scandal.  From ancient Roman times, the barber's shop has been a center for the dissemination of scandal and the talk of the town. 	
Bard, Sir Reginald	a made-up name.	
bare-boned	irreducible minimum or most essential. 	
bargain basement	a basement area in some stores where goods are sold at prices lower than usual. 	
barium meal	a humorous reference to barium sulfate, an odorless, tasteless, white powder that is opaque when swallowed and so helps in the examination of x-rays of the stomach and intestines.	
barn doors	(photography) folding hinged doors which are used on the front of studio spotlights to shade the sitter or actors from direct lighting, and sometimes used to give more direct light onto the subject. 	
Barnum	Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), an American showman famed for his flamboyant publicity. Barnum is mainly known for his circus, "The Greatest Show on Earth." His side shows were particularly notable, even though many of the "freaks" he advertised turned out to be hoaxes. (A mermaid, for example, was put together from a monkey and a fish.) According to a famous story about Barnum, someone pointed out that many customers had reason to be angry at him, because they paid their admission and then found out that the freaks in his show were fakes. Barnum supposedly replied that he was not worried about losing business because, in his words, "A sucker is born every minute.	
barre noire	(French) literally means black bar, a reference to the papal courts of the Dark and Middle Ages where black-robed priests tried people for heresy. Such courts developed into the Inquisition of the thirteenth century, where officials sometimes gained confessions through torture and then turned over those who had confessed to the civil authorities for execution.	
barrel, at the bottom of the	at the lowest or last place or position. From the expression scrape the bottom of the barrel, to make use of or be left with the remaining part or members of something, especially when these are of poor quality.	
bash	(informal) strike with a smashing blow; hit very hard.	
bashed into	(informal) met by chance.	
bassackwards	(slang) an alteration of the expression ”ass-backwards,” which means backwards; reverse.	
bat one thousand	do the right or correct thing each and every time. From the sport of baseball where the percentage of hits of the ball by the batter is kept in 3 figures (e.g. if a batter hit the ball fifty percent if his times at bat his percentage would be written .500 and would be said "five hundred" in the language of the sport). Thus for a person to hit 100 percent of the time (1.000) would be to bat "one thousand."	
bat, off [on] (one’s, it’s) own	(colloquial) without asking for the help, advice, permission, etc., of any other person. A reference to the score made by a player's own hits in games such as baseball and cricket.	
bat, off the end of your	immediately; without delay. A variation of right off the bat.	
batfur	a made-up word	
Batista	Fulgencio Batista y Zaldfvar (1901-1973), Cuban dictator (19331944, 1952-1959).  As an army sergeant, he took part in a military coup in 1933 and became the de facto ruler of Cuba and later its elected president from 1940 to 1944.  He retired to Florida with his wealth after a period of stability, reform and corruption.  In 1952 he seized power again and had himself elected president (1954, 1958).  His corrupt rule caused popular discontent, and he fled the country in 1959 during the Castro revolution. 
See also Castro in this glossary.	
batosis	a coined word for a mental condition from bat, to hit with or as if with a club or bat and -osis, a suffix meaning an abnormal or diseased condition.	
Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn	a large American public relations firm founded in 1891 which has offices worldwide. Among its many clients are Pepsico, Inc.; Polaroid; Campbell's Soup and Federal Express.	
battery, reverts to	(slang) a Variation of back to battery.
See back to battery in this glossary.	
Battle of Actium	a decisive battle (31 B.C.) in the civil war between Octavian (the first Roman emperor) and Marc Antony (Roman politician and soldier who is most famous as the lover and husband of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt) in which Antony was defeated.	
Bay Head, New Jersey	a city on the Atlantic coast of the United States where LRH was living in the winter of 1949 when he wrote the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.	
BBC	abbreviation for British Broadcasting Corporation: the governmentsponsored radio and television company of the United Kingdom which holds a monopoly on radio broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom.	
beans or buttons, isn't worth	(slang) is not worth much; is not worth anything. A coined expression from beans, nothing; a minimal amount and buttons, things of very small value.	
bearcat	(informal) a person or thing that fights or acts with force or fierceness.
(colloquial) something remarkable, wonderful, superior, etc.	
beard, pull a long, gray	act the sage, or wise man. Beards have traditionally indicated age and experience. The image of this expression is that of a man who tugs or strokes his long, gray beard as he gives forth his wisdom.	
beast, any (thing) known to man or	any (thing) possible; any (thing) that one can think of or imagine.	
beast, any (thing) known to man or	any (thing) possible; any (thing) that one can think of or imagine.	
beast, every (thing) known to man and	every (thing) possible; every (thing) that one can think of or imagine.	
beat (one's) brains out	try very hard to understand or think out something difficult; tire (oneself) out by thinking.	
beat (something) to death	(colloquial) deal with or discuss (something) until it is no longer in any way interesting A variation of flog to death.	
Beat the Clock	a former television game show where contestants, usually married couples, would attempt to perform stunts and beat the amount of time shown on a ticking sixty-second clock.	
beat your head against a wall	(colloquial) try to do or obtain something difficult with very little hope of success.	
beating (one's) chops and (one's) brains out	a coined expression from batting (one's) chops, talking idly but volubly and beating (one's) brains out, laboring strenuously with the mind, often with a sense of having failed.	
Beatty, Clyde	(1903-1965) a circus performer known for his acts with wild jungle animals.  He was the featured attraction at every show he appeared in for more than 40 years. 	
beaucoup	(French) much. Well, very much, very many.	
bed of spikes, made (one's) own	(informal) chose a particular course of action and so were forced to accept the results of it.  A Variation of made (one's) bed and had to lie in it.	
bed, put to	(colloquial) put away, as from one's mind.	
Bedford	the brand name of several types of large commercial trucks first manufactured in Bedford, England, including flatbed trucks, eighteen-wheel trucks, etc.	
bee on (someone), put the	ask (someone) for money	
beefs in	(slang) a variation of beefs up, gets stronger as by adding units. 	
Beethoven	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), famous German composer of symphonies.
music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.	
Beetle	the title character in the comic strip Beetle Bailey, started in 1950 by Mort Walker (1923‑ ) which depicts characters in the army and aspects of army life. Beetle is a private who continually seeks the easy way out and tries to avoid, work.	
befraught	thoroughly filled or charged (with something).	
begatrons	a made-up word.	
begetteth	a humorous variation of the word begets (brings into being; produces), adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
beginner's luck	the good fortune that sometimes allows a novice to outdo an expert, as in fishing or certain games.	
behaviorist	one who believes in behaviorism, the doctrine that observed behavior provides the only valid data of psychology; it rejects the concept of mind and consciousness.	
belfry	(slang) the head.	
Belknap, Burke	an early Dianeticist and auditor. He was on the first professional course for auditors given in 1950.	
Bell, Alexander Graham	(1847-1922) Scottish-born American inventor; patented the first Telephone (1876).	
bell, book and candle	everything; the totality of resources. This expression comes from the excommunication ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church. After pronouncing sentence, the officiating cleric closes his book, quenches the candle by throwing it to the ground and tolls the bell as for one who has died. The book symbolizes the book of life, the candle that the soul is removed from the sight of God as the candle from the sight of man.	
bell, Clear as a	(colloquial) very definitely Clear; without aberration. From the expression clear as a bell, very clear; very easy to hear or understand.	
bell, like a	(colloquial) a coined expression meaning perfectly clear.  From clear as a bell: very clear, very easy to hear or understand (especially of a sound or situation), and like a dream: perfectly.  	
Bellevue Hospital	a large hospital in New York City that has a psychiatric division and mental health clinic. 	
Belsen	a Nazi concentration camp in Germany during World War II. 
See also Auschwitz in this glossary.	
bend, around the	(British slang) insane; crazy.	
Bennington, battle of	a battle of the American Revolutionary War in which US troops defeated the British.  It was fought in 1777 near Bennington, Vermont. 	
bent	(British slang) abnormal; perverted.	
Bentley	a sports car manufactured in the early twentieth century by Bentley and Bentley, a company started in 1912 by Walter Owen Bentley (1888-1971).	
Berkshire	a county in southeastern England. It is chiefly agricultural. Windsor Castle, the main residence of English sovereigns, is in the eastern part of the county.	
Berlin thing	the Berlin Wall. A reference to Berlin being divided into English, French, British and Russian sectors by the Allies after World War II.  The Russian sector came to be known as East Berlin, and the other sectors were called West Berlin.  In 1961 a wall was erected by East Germany which divided the city into a communist section and a noncommunist section (just as Germany was similarly divided between East [communist] and West [noncommunist]) to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West.	
best‑laid auditors	a humorous allusion to the poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns (1759‑1796), Scottish national poet. A well‑known quote from the poem is:
"The best‑laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft agley (often go astray)."	
bet	(figurative) a satisfactory choice	
Beta Centauri	a bluish-white star, the second in apparent brightness in the constellation Centaurus.  It is over 1,000 times the brightness of the sun.	
bête noire	(French) someone or something that is the bane of a person or his life; an insufferable person or thing; an object of aversion. In French, this literally means black beast.	
Better Business Bureau	any of a nationwide system of local organizations, supported by business firms, whose stated function is to receive and investigate customer complaints of dishonest business practices.	
biannuated	a made-up word.	
Bible Belt	an area of the US, chiefly in the South and Midwest, noted for its religious fundamentalism. (Fundamentalism: a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.)	
Bibles, lay (one's) paw on a stack of	affirm with absolute confidence and considerable vehemence.  A Variation of swear on a stack of Bibles.	
bichromate	a chemical compound whose molecules have two atoms of chromium.  Combined with potassium, it is used in the development of negatives in photography.	
Bide-a-Wee Cemetery	a made-up name for a cemetery.	
Bide-a-Wee Club	a made-up name for a club.	
Bide-a-Wee Cocktail Bar	a made-up name for a bar.	
Bide-a-Wee Construction Company	a made-up name for a company.	
Bide-a-Wee Hotel	a made-up name for a hotel.	
Bide-a-Wee Insane Asylum	a made-up name for an insane asylum.	
Bide-a-Wee Soap Company	a made-up name for a company.	
big bad-wolf	having a cruel, ferocious or rapacious disposition. The Big Bad Wolf was a character in a children's story about three pigs who each build a house to be safe from the wolf. When the wolf arrives at the door of each house, he boasts, "I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down." The wolf blows down the first two houses that are made out of straw and sticks, and the first two pigs take refuge in the brick house built by the third pig. In some versions of the story, the wolf eats the first two pigs.	
Big Ben	the bell and clock in Parliament tower in London. Installed in 1856, it was named for a government official, Sir Benjamin Hall.	
Big John	a made-up name for a larger than average or giant man.  In a song called "Big Bad John" which was released in the early 1960s, "Big John" is the name of a very large miner who holds up the ceiling in a collapsing mine long enough for his fellow miners to escape before he himself is killed.	
Bilco, Sergeant	a character on an American TV show in the late 50s which was a satire of army life. Sergeant Bilco had different schemes where he would manipulate the US Army for his own personal benefit.	
bilge pumps	pumps located in the bilges (the lowest part of the interior of a vessel's hull, the part either side of the keel which is most nearly horizontal) to drain the water that collects there.	
billennia	a coined word meaning a very large number of years.	
billiard-balled	turned into a billiard ball (a small solid ivory ball used in the game of billiards which is knocked into other balls by a long, tapering stick called a cue).	
billycan	(Australian) any container in which water may be carried and boiled over a campfire, ranging from a makeshift tin can to a special earthenware kettle; any pot or kettle in which tea is boiled over a Campfire.	
billy-o	(colloquial) a euphemism for devil used in phrases such as like the devil, what the devil, etc.	
billy-o, gives (someone)	(colloquial) gives (someone) trouble; makes (someone’s) life unpleasant. A Variation of gives (someone) hell.	
billy-o, like	(colloquial) a Variation of like the devil.
See also devil, like the in this glossary.	
billy-o’s sake, for	(colloquial) an exclamation expressing impatience, annoyance or surprise, especially in questions or requests. A Variation of for goodness sakes.	
bimph	a made‑up word.	
Bingblatt, Jing	a made-up name.	
binged out of me bean	exteriorized.  Binged is an obsolete word which means "went." Me is dialect meaning "my." Bean is a slang word meaning "head."	
bingo	(slang) sudden, swift.
an exclamation used to express sudden, swift action or change.	
bird	(slang) a person.	
bird, free as a	(colloquial) very free; with no limits.	
bird-dogged	(colloquial) being searched out diligently or pursued doggedly. 	
birds	(slang) people.	
Birmingham	a city in central England. England's second-largest city after London, and an important industrial and transportation center. 	
Bispicks	a made-up name.	
bisulfite	short for sodium bisulfite, a chemical compound used as a preservative in photographic developer to keep the solution clear.	
bit the dust	(slang) suffered defeat; was unsuccessful; failed.	
bitch (something or someone) up	(slang) spoil (something or someone) by clumsy work or action; botch (something or someone).	
bitch kitty	(slang) a difficult or disagreeable task.	
bite	have an effect.	
bitter end, to the	until the end, however diffieult or distressing.	
bituminous zinc	a made-up phrase. Bituminous means containing or made with bitumen (any one of a number of minerals that will burn, such as asphalt, petroleum, etc.). Zinc is a bluish-white, metallic chemical element, used as a protective coating for iron, in electric batteries, in alloys, and (in the forms of salts) in medicine.	
Black Bart	a made-up name for a gunfighter (a person who engaged in gun duels) in the late nineteenth century US West. Gunfights were notoriously carried out in the main street of the town "at sunset." Referred to as "Black" as in early black-and-white American cowboy movies, the villain always wore a black hat while the hero always wore a white hat.	
Black Dragon Society	a Japanese nationalistic group.  In the early twentieth century this group, made up of the more extreme militarist and nationalist elements of the country, advocated state socialism over capitalism and supported the annexation of Korea and Manchuria.  During the 1930s, the military party extended its control over the government and brought about an increase in armaments, and later economic and political penetration of China. 	
Black Maria	a police van used for the conveyance of prisoners. It is suggested that the name is derived from that of Maria Lee, a black woman in Boston in the early 1800s who kept a lodging house for sailors, but cooperated with the police in the arrest of any lodger who became unruly or violated the law. she was of such great size that when the police required help they sent for Black Maria, who soon collared the refractory men and led them to the lockup.	
blackbird pie	reference to a children's nursery rhyme:
"Sing a song of sixpence,
Pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie;
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing,
Was not that a dainty dish,
To set before a king?"	
black-edged letter	a note, letter, etc., written on paper with a black border to signify that a person is in mourning.	
Blackfeet Indians	members of an American Indian tribe, many of whom live on Indian reservations in Montana.	
Black's textbook on physics	an elementary textbook on physics.	
blankety‑blank	(informal) damned, darned (used to imply an omission of an unprintable or unspeakable word). From the practice in the late 1800s of leaving blank spaces to represent profanity.	
blankety-blank-blank	(informal) a euphemism for unprintable or unspeakable words.  From the practice in the late 1800s of leaving blank spaces to represent profanity.	
blazes, let (something) go to	do nothing about (something).	
blazes, like	(informal) very much, very hard, very fast, etc.	
blazes, madder than	exceedingly angry.	
blessed	(slang) a euphemism for damned, deserving cursing; outrageous.	
blew (something) out	burst, melted, burned out or destroyed (something) by exploding, overloading, etc. 	
Bligh	William Bligh (1754-1817), a famous English naval officer and colonial governor. In 1787, he was assigned to the ship Bounty. His severity and harsh discipline as a commanding officer were cited as the causes of a mutiny by his crew against him in 1789. 	
blimey	(British slang) short for gorblimey, an interjection used to express surprise or excitement.	
blind eye, turn the	take no notice (of something).	
blink in	a coined expression meaning become more alert.	
blinking	(British slang) used as a substitute for a strong expletive.	
blinks out	a coined expression meaning goes unconscious.	
Blitz and Company	a made-up name for a company.	
Blitz, George Q.	a made-up name. 	
Blitz, Joe	a made-up name.	
Blitzen Company	a made-up name for a company.	
blitzkrieg	warfare in which the offensive is very rapid, violent and hard to resist. In German it literally means lightning war.	
block knocked off, getting (one’s)	(slang) getting hit very hard; getting beat up.	
blonk	a made-up name for a body part. 	
blood sugar	glucose (a kind of sugar found in plant and animal tissues that is used as a source of energy) in the blood.	
blood, for	as though one's life depended on it; for real.	
blood, sweat and tears of the Churchills	a reference to a statement made by the English statesman, soldier and author, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) upon becoming prime minister of Britain:
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." 	
blood-and-thunder magazines	(informal) magazines specializing in violence.	
blooey, goes	(slang) goes totally out of commission; breaks down completely. Breaking down; collapsing.	
Blooga-uga-uga-uga-stan	a made-up name for a country.	
bloom, in full	in a flourishing or thriving condition.	
bloom, in high	in a flourishing or thriving condition.	
bloomer	(slang) a blunder; a goof.	
blooming	(chiefly British slang) confounded, damned, blasted, bloody, darn. (used as a mild oath or as an intensivier).	
blow (someone) out of the water	(slang) defeat (someone); thwart or ruin someone's efforts. 	
Blow, Joe	a made-up name for a person.	
blow-back	(figurative) the act or process of blowing back, specifically in firearms, removal by the force of an explosion.	
blowing (something's) head off	 (slang) killing (something) by a shot through the head. 	
blowing the living pants off of	a coined phrase meaning completely getting rid of; utterly defeating.	
blown (something's) brains out	(slang) killed (something) by a shot through the head.	
blue blazes	(slang) hell. From the blue flames of hell. A euphemism occurring in many oaths and exclamations.	
blue flash	a suddenly obtained piece of insight, as if there had just been a flash of lightning.	
blue moon, in a	(informal) extremely infrequently, so rarely as to be almost never. From an unusual bluish tinge to the face of the moon, occurring very rarely, which has led some to call it a "blue moon." The bluish coloration has been attributed to atmospheric pollution such as that caused from large volcanic eruptions.	
blue, out of the	sudden and unexpected.	
bluefly	short for bluebottle fly, a fly with a large bluish body.	
blumjum	a made-up word. 	
BMA	short for British Medical Association, the British counterpart of the American Medical Association.
See also AMA in this glossary.	
board of trustees	an appointed or elective board that supervises the affairs of a public or private organization.	
board, across the	including everyone or all; so that all are included. Originally a phrase from horse racing wherein equal amounts of money are bet on the same horse to win a race, to place second or third. 	
boards, by the: 	Lost, forgotten; not used. From the nautical definition of boards meaning "the sides of a ship," so literally meaning over the ship's side.	
boards, fall by the	go away or disappear forever; become forgotten or not used. From the nautical definition of boards meaning "the sides of a ship," so literally meaning go over the ship's side.	
boards, go (-es; -ing) (completely) by the	go away or disappear forever; be forgotten or not used. From the nautical definition of boards meaning "the sides of a ship," so literally meaning go over the ship's side.	
boards, went by the	was gotten rid of-, was lost; was ruined. From the nautical Definition of boards meaning "the sides of a ship," so literally meaning went over the ship's side.	
boat, make the	take advantage of an opportunity; succeed.	
boat, miss the whole	(informal) completely miss the point of something; fail to understand something.	
bodhi	(Buddhism) one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means. The state is called bodhi as it is said to have been first achieved under a bodhi tree (a fig tree) by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha.
See also Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama in this glossary.	
Bodhi tree	also called a Bo tree, the sacred fig tree of Buddhism. Gautama Siddhartha Buddha is believed to have gotten heavenly inspiration under such a tree. Bodhi means wisdom or enlightenment.
See also Buddha in this glossary.	
Boeing	an aircraft manufacturing company, founded in 1916, which produces a wide variety of civilian and military planes.	
boggies	a made-up word. 	
Bogtown	a made-up name for a place.	
bog-wog	a made-up word.	
boiled up	(colloquial) thought up; concocted; devised.  A Variation of cooked up.	
boils down to	is able to be simplified or summarized as.	
Boleyn, Anne	(1505-1536) the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. When she first appeared at the English court in 1522, her beauty attracted much attention. The king became interested in her but kept this interest well concealed until 1527. Henry separated from his first wife in 1531, and Anne became his mistress until 1533, when they were married. In 1536, Anne was beheaded at the Tower of London for alleged adultery and incest.
See also Henry the VIII and Tower in this glossary.	
bollard	a thick post on a ship or wharf, used for securing ropes and hawsers (cables or ropes used in mooring or towing ships).	
bolt from the blue	a sudden unforeseen occurrence. Literally, a thunderbolt from a clear sky.	
bomb, like a (hot, well-oiled)	(colloquial) with great speed; with considerable effectiveness or success.	
Bombay	one of the largest cities in India and the capital of the state of Maharashtra. It occupies two islands off the coast of India and the Arabian Sea. It is the center of the Indian film industry. Much of the inner section of Bombay is a crowded slum. The mean annual temperature of Bombay is 79.3 degrees Fahrenheit, with May being the warmest month and January being the coldest month.	
Bond, James	the hero in a number of novels by English author Ian Fleming (1908‑1964). Bond is a secret agent for British intelligence who is ruthless, witty and invincible.	
bone of contention	the subject of dispute.	
bone rattler	a witch doctor or medicine man; from the practice of witch doctors in some primitive cultures using charms made out of bone in rituals and incantations.	
bongo!	(slang) a variation of bingo!, an exclamation denoting sudden action, success or comprehension.	
Bongo‑Bungo	a made‑up name for a jungle river.	
Bonwick	a Chauffeur at Saint Hill at the time of this lecture.	
boob	(British slang) make stupid mistakes, foolish mistake or blunder.	
booby hatch	(slang) an institution for the mentally ill.	
boogies	a made-up word.	
boojum	an imaginary animal invented by Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [1832-18981, English author, mathematician and photographer) in his poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876).	
Book of Changes	a divination manual (a guide dealing with the act or practice of trying to foretell the future or the unknown by magic, astrology, etc.) which contains mystical speculations. It is one of the books in the Chinese Five Classics: five books that are part of the Confucian canon which served as part of the basis of Chinese education until recent times.
See also Confucius in this glossary.	
Book of Job	a book of the Bible which tells the story of Job, a man whose faith was severely tested by Satan with God's permission.	
Book of the Winds	reference to the Chinese Five Classics, part of the Confucian canon.
See Book of Changes in this glossary.	
book, in the	on record; known. 	
Boola-boola-boola-boola-boola tribe	a made-up name for a tribe of people.	
Booplum-Booplin law	a made-up name for a law.	
boot	(slang) kick; power; strength; potency.	
boot school	(colloquial) a place where navy or marine recruits receive basic training	
bootapad	a made‑up word.	
boots, shaking in (one's)	(informal) trembling with fear or great anxiety.	
bootstrapped	modified or improved by making use of what is already present. 	
bop out	(colloquial) pop out; move, go, come, etc., suddenly and quickly out.	
Borgia, Lucrezia	(1480-1519) Italian noblewoman and daughter of Pope Alexander VI. She and her brother, Cesare, were reputed to be adept in ridding themselves of foes or unwanted friends by inducing them to respond to pledges in poisoned wine.	
Borglum, Gutzon	(1871-1941), American sculptor who planned and started the Mount Rushmore Memorial in South Dakota, where the likenesses of four presidents’ heads are carved: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.  He died before the memorial was completed, and his son finished it.	
borne down on	made a strong effort toward accomplishment on.	
borne in	forced in, impressed with force.	
Boston	capital of and largest city in Massachusetts founded in 1630, it is a major financial, government and educational center. A focus of opposition to the British, it was the scene of several actions in the American Revolution. It was an early center of American Puritanism. In the 1920s, the phrase banned in Boston became famous because the Watch and Ward Society was forever getting the city to ban books. Publishers tried to get their books banned in Boston because they knew that the books would sell more copies elsewhere if they were banned in Boston. Boston became a center of active opposition to the institution of slavery and continued to be so through the Civil War
See also Watch and Ward Society and American Civil War in this glossary.	
Boston stomach	indigestion.  A humorous allusion to the fact that Boston, the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, is famous for its baked beans; beans are known for causing intestinal gas.	
Bostonian	a native or inhabitant of Boston.
See also Boston in this glossary.	
botulinus	a bacterium sometimes found in foods improperly canned or preserved that produces the toxin causing botulism, an often fatal type of poisoning characterized by muscular paralysis and disturbances of vision and breathing.	
bou	(French) wood; forest; timber.	
bouton, right on the	(informal) exactly as desired, expected, specified, etc. bouton, is French for button.	
bow	a tale.  From the phrase stringing a longbow, exaggerating.  A longbow is a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries.  It is said that a good archer could hit between the fingers of a man's hand at a considerable distance, and could propel his arrow a mile.  The tales told about longbow exploits fully justify the application of the phrase.	
bowline on a (the) bight	a type of knot which forms a loop and can be used as a sling for a man. Used figuratively in these lectures.	
box canyon	a narrow canyon having comparatively flat bottom and vertical walls.	
box, first crack out of the	(slang) immediately; before anything else.	
Boy	fraudulent; deceptive.	
boz-woz	a made-up word.	
Bradbury, Ray	(1920- ) American science fiction writer.  He is noted for his unearthly, fantastic tales, many of which have appeared in short-story anthologies.	
Brady	Mathew B. Brady (1823?-1896), an American photographer who accompanied troops during the Civil War (1861-1865) and took pictures which became the basis for the pictorial history of the war.
See also American Civil War in this glossary.	
Brahma Be with Us	a made-up name for a song. Brahma is the name for God in the Hindu religion.	
Brahms	music composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), German composer. His works include symphonies, choral works and nearly 200 songs. He wrote in every field of music except opera. Typical of his best loved works is "Cradle Song" (also known as "Lullaby").
music composed by Johannes Brahms.	
brain to the bone, work (one's)	work very hard. A variation of work (one's) fingers to the bone. 	
brains out, bang (one's)	try very hard to understand or think out something difficult; tire (oneself) out by thinking.	
brains out, bat (one's)	labor strenuously with the mind, often with a sense of having failed. A variation of beat (one's) brains out.	
brains out, beating (one’s)	(informal) trying very hard to understand or think out something difficult; tiring (oneself) out by thinking.	
brains out, blow (-ing) (one's)	(slang) kill (oneself) by a shot through the head.
Used figuratively in these lectures.	
brains out, knock (one's)	(colloquial) labor strenuously with the mind, often with a sense of having failed.	
brains, beating (one's)	trying very hard to understand or think out something difficult; tiring (oneself) out by thinking.	
brainwashing	(colloquial) subjecting a person to systematic indoctrination or mental pressure with a view to getting him to change his views or to confess to a crime.	
brakes, put on the	(informal) reduce the rate or speed at which something is done. 	
branding iron	a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.	
brass	(informal) very important jobs. 	
brass ring	(slang) a chance for riches or success. The phrase comes from the once-popular practice of picking a ring from a box while riding a merry-go-round: whoever caught a brass ring received a free ride. The expression catching the brass ring has come to mean gaining wealth, success or a prestigious position considered as a goal or prize.	
Brave New World	a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley that depicts the potential horrors of life in the twenty-fifth century. It is a grim picture of the world which Huxley thinks our scientific and social developments have already begun to create. Human embryos are developed in bottles and conditioned to collectivism and passivity.
See also Huxley, Aldous in this glossary	
breadboard	(electronics) an experimental model, especially of an electric circuit; prototype.	
breadboarded	(electronics) constructed (an experimental circuit) for the purpose of feasibility tests.	
break the back of	overcome; defeat. From the idea that the back of something is what supports or protects it, therefore to break or crack the back of something would be to destroy its support.	
breath of an eye, in the	(colloquial) within a very short time; very quickly.  A Variation of in the twinkling of an eye	
breech	the rear part of the bore of a gun, especially the opening and associated parts that permit insertion of ammunition.	
breed of cat	(informal) type; sort; variety. Example: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.	
Breeding	Don Breeding, a person who did research and helped LRH on development of the E-Meter.	
breeze, like a	(informal) easily; with little effort.	
Br'er Rabbit	a character in several novels by the writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908). Many of the characters in these works, such as Br'er Rabbit, are animals endowed with human qualities. Br'er is Southern US dialect for brother.	
Brfrumph of Wuf	a made-up name for a year.	
Bricks, came down on (someone) like a ton of	(informal) turned the full force of one's anger against (someone), usually as a punishment.	
Bridge, a lot of water's gone under the	(informal) much time has passed and many different things have happened.	
Bright side, look on the	(informal) think of the advantages and not the disadvantages in a Situation.	
Bright, bushy-tailed	(colloquial) very cheerful and lively.  A variation of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed which is in reference to cats whose tails become much thicker when they are angered or excited.	
Brisbane River	a river in southeast Queensland, Australia.	
brish-brash	a coined word from brash, a mass or pile of rubble or fragments, as of floating ice.	
British Medical Association	the British counterpart of the American Medical Association. . It is a professional physicians' organization with the stated purpose to promote public health, protect the welfare of doctors and support medical science.
See also American Medical Association in this glossary	
British Museum Library	a national depository in London, England housing a collection of exhibits related to art, literature and science. Originally the museum was planned to hold natural history objects and manuscripts; however, the increasing number of gifts of manuscripts, etc., necessitated the need for more divisions. In 1881, the natural history department was moved to the Natural History Museum to allow extra space for manuscripts in the British Museum.	
British Silver Trust	a made-up name for a company.	
British Tea Services, Limited	a made-up name for a company.	
British Vice-Consul	the British official in a country who is subordinate to or a substitute for a consul (an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country).	
Brize-Norton	a Royal Air Force base in England, north of London.	
Broadway	a street in New York City, famous for its theaters, restaurants and bright lights.	
Brobdingnagians	inhabitants of Brobdingnag (a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall). From the book Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.	
broke the back of	overcame; defeated. From the idea that the back of something is what supports or protects it, therefore to break or crack the back of something would be to destroy its support.	
broke, go for	(slang) exert oneself or employ one's resources to the utmost.	
Bromo Seltzer	brand name for a compound sold to relieve headaches and upset stomachs.	
bromoil	(photography) a very involved and complicated process for developing photographs that uses oil pigments.	
Bronx Zoo	a zoo located in Bronx Park in New York City which is also known as the New York Zoological Gardens. It houses more than 1,000 species of wild and rare animals, some of which roam freely in a replica of the African veld (open grassy country).	
brot	(German) bread.	
brother	(slang) an expression of disappointment, disgust or surprise.	
Brothers Karamazov, The	a novel which is considered to be the best work of Feodor Dostoevski.  The main plot involves a father and his four sons.  The father and one of the sons are rivals for the affections of the local siren.  Violent quarrels over her and over the son's disputed inheritance ensue until the father is killed and the son arrested and brought to trial for the crime.
See also Dostoevski in this glossary.	
Brothers of the Snake	a group on Earth around 1216 B.C. which was involved in an effort towards total religious conquest of the Near East, India and some of Europe. The conflict between them and those fighting against them was extremely violent.	
Brown Derbys	restaurants similar to the Brown Derby, a famous restaurant in Hollywood, California, USA. In the early days of Hollywood and the motion picture industry, especially in the 1940s, the Brown Derby was a popular meeting place for Hollywood stars.	
Browne, Sir Thomas	(1605-1682) English scholar, physician and author.  He is considered one of the greatest stylists of English prose.	
Brownie box camera	a simple camera shaped like a box, having a fixed focus and, usually, a single shutter speed. It was made in the first half of the twentieth century by Eastman Kodak under the brand name of Brownie.	
brush country	sparsely settled country, covered with wild scrub growth.	
brushfire war	a war which arises suddenly and is limited in scale or area.	
bubble	an illusion or delusion.	
buck (something) up	(informal) give fresh courage or energy to (something).	
buck up to	meet head on as if in butting. Used figuratively to mean confront; face up to.	
Buck, Pearl	(1892-1973) American novelist.  The daughter of Presbyterian missionaries in China, she drew on her long experience of that country to write many novels, several of which, e.g., The Good Earth (1931) and Dragon Seed (1942), became very popular.  She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.	
bucked in to	(figurative) brought up against; opposed to.	
bucket, drop in the	(colloquial) a very small amount, especially when compared with the larger amount that remains or is needed.	
bucket, in the same	a variation of the phrase in the same breath, at the same time; without waiting.	
bucket, kick the	(slang) die. The phrase comes from animals about to be slaughtered for food often being hung from a frame scaffold and kicking out as they are lifted into position. Their legs hit part of the frame whose French name, bucket, is the origin of the word bucket.	
bucking the tiger	(slang) gambling. In America, more than a hundred years ago, the game of faro (a gambling game in which players bet on the cards to be turned up from the top of the dealer's pack) was known as tiger. To buck the tiger was to play against the bank; hence, to gamble.	
Buckingham Palace	the official London residence of the king or queen of England.	
buckling in	setting to work with real effort. A variation of buckling down.	
Budapest	a city in and the capital of Hungary; located in the central part of the country, on the Danube River. Hungary was a communist country from 1949 until a reform movement in the late 1980s which led to the disbanding of the party militia, the withdrawal of political cells from factories and offices, and free multiparty elections.	
Budapest, treaty of	a made-up name for a treaty concerning Budapest.
See also Budapest in this glossary.	
Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (ca. 563-483 B.C.), a religious philosopher and teacher who lived in India and was the founder of Buddhism. The hope of Buddhism was, by various practices, to break the endless chain of births and deaths and to reach salvation in one lifetime. Buddha is a title applied by Buddhists to someone regarded as embodying divine wisdom and virtue.	
Buddhism	the religion founded by Gautama Buddha. The term Buddha derives from Bodhi, or "one who has attained intellectual and ethical perfeetion by human means." The hope of Buddhism was, by various practices, to break the endless chain of births and deaths and to reach salvation in one lifetime.
See also Buddha in this glossary.	
Buddhist	one who follows the doctrines of Buddhism
pertaining to or characteristic of the doctrines of Buddhism	
Buddhistic	of or having to do with Buddhism.
See also Buddha in this glossary. 	
Buffalo Bill	William F. Cody (1846-1917), a frontier settler, scout and soldier. Originally an Indian scout, he became known as "Buffalo Bill" by supplying buffalo meat to railway workers.	
bugga-bugga	a made-up word.	
Bugga-Bugga Booga-Boogas	a made-up name for a tribe.	
bugged	(slang) confused or puzzled.	
buggy	(slang) crazy; insane.	
buggy whip	a whip used by the driver of a buggy (a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage). The whip was used to direct the horse and control his speed.	
bug-jumps	a coined word from bug, prison slang for a psychiatrist.	
Buick	a car built by the Buick Motor Division of General Motors Corporation (a US automobile manufacturer).	
Buicks	cars built by the Buick Motor Division of General Motors Corporation (a US automobile manufacturer).	
Bukwuk	a made-up name for a location.	
Bulawayo	the second largest city in Zimbabwe, a country in southeast Africa. It is an important commercial, railroad and industrial center.	
bull	(slang) an exclamation of disbelief, derision and contempt in retort to some proposition.	
bullpen	(computers) an area in early electronic computers where partial solutions were held until new material was fed into the computer, making a complete solution. At that point the data was sent on to the computer's memory bank. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
bulls	bad blunders.	
bully (it) through	(slang) drive or force (it) forward.	
bum	(slang) inferior or unsatisfactory.	
bum steer	(slang) an erroneous guidance or piece of advice.
(slang) mistakes; errors	
bump up	(colloquial) increase or raise (prices, etc.) suddenly.	
bunch of canned questions	(informal) prepared in advance.	
bung	(British slang) throw or shove carelessly or violently; sling.	
bunged	(British slang) thrown or shoved carelessly or violently; slung.	
bungstarter	a mallet for loosening or removing a bung (a cork or other stopper for the hole in a barrel, cask or keg).	
bunk	(slang) nonsense; pretentious talk	
bunk, do a	(slang) depart hurriedly. 	
bunk, done a	(slang) run away; deserted. Used here to mean the person shot out of his head and left.	
bunk, go	(slang) run away; desert. 	
Bunker Hill, battle of	the first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775.  The British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill, but only after the Americans had run out of gunpowder.	
bunny, quick as a	(slang) very quickly. (From the idea that a rabbit, or bunnys is very fast.)	
Buntline, Ned	the pen name of Edward Zane Carroll Judson (1823-1886), American adventurer and dime novelist. He is credited with being the originator of the dime novel.
See also dime novel in this glossary.	
Bunyan, Paul	a legendary giant hero of the lumber camps of the northwestern US.  His supposed feats-such as cutting the Grand Canyon of Colorado by dragging his pick behind him-are told and retold with embellishments by lumbermen. . . .	
Burchiman Company	a made-up name for a company.	
Bureau of Infernal Ravening	a humorous reference to the Internal Revenue Service, a division of the US Department of the Treasury, established in 1862.  It is responsible for the assessment and collection of federal taxes other than those on alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives.  It collects most of its revenues through the individual and corporate income tax.	
Bureau of Statistics	reference to the Bureau of the Census, a government agency established in 1902, which collects, tabulates and publishes census statistics about America, its people and its economy.	
Burial Society, I Will Arise	a made-up name for a society.	
burleyoue	(slang) a humorous pronunciation of burlesque, a sort of vaudeville (a stage show made up of a variety of acts, including songs, dances, comic skits, acrobatics, etc.) with skits of low comedy, striptease acts, etc.	
Burmapad	a made‑up word.	
burn	(slang) pass; spend; waste.	
burn the midnight oil	(informal) study or work very late at night.	
burning (something) up	consuming (something) rapidly, especially squandering (something).	
burning pot	reference to a censer: a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services.	
burning the midnight Ron	a humorous variation of the phrase burning the midnight oil, studying or working very late at night.	
burp gun	(military slang) any of various automatic pistols or submachine guns.	
Bushville	a made-up name for a place. Bush is slang for rural or provincial.	
business, in	(slang) in operation; underway.	
business, the	(slang) all that (one) is able to do; the greatest effort.	
buttered all over the universe	(slang) a condition whereby a preclear doesn't know where he is. The preclear has used remote viewpoints (those viewpoints which an individual puts out remotely, to look through) and has left remote viewpoints located all over everywhere to such a degree that the preclear thinks he is anyplace rather than where he is.	
Butterfly	(photography) a type of portrait lighting in which the main light is positioned straight in front of and somewhat above the subject, thereby projecting onto the upper lip the nose shadow, which can be imagined to look like a butterfly.	
butterfly net	(slang) a net used to catch an insane person.	
butterfly nets	(slang) nets used to catch insane people.	
butterfly squad	a coined term for a group of people involved in catching insane people.	
buttoned (something) up	(slang) stated (something) precisely; ascertained (something); pinned down (something)
(slang) locked (something) up; closed (something) up; secured (something).
(slang) finished.	
Buttoning up	(slang) finishing; successful completion.	
buzz-bomb	(colloquial) a pilotless jet-propelled airplane with an explosive warhead, first used by the Germans against England in June 1944. Although it was known as a flying bomb, the troops generally called it a buzz-bomb probably because it normally came in at rather low altitude, reminiscent of an airplane buzzing the ground.	
by George	an oath or exclamation, originally referring to Saint George, Christian martyr of the early fourteenth century A.D., and patron saint of England from the fourteenth century. "Saint George" was the battle cry of English soldiers, and from this arose such expressions as "before George" and "by George."	
Cadillac	brand name of a large, American luxury car.	
Caesar	(ca 101-44 B.C.) Roman soldier and statesman who became Roman dictator in 49 B.C. In 55 B.c. he made his first expedition to Britain, effecting little beyond a landing on the southeastern coast.  This was followed by a second crossing in 54 B.C. in which Caesar penetrated into south central England and crossed the Thames.  But the British prince Cassivellaunus with his war chariots harassed the Roman columns, and Caesar was compelled to return to Gaul after imposing a tribute which was never paid.	
Cairo	a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the northern part of the country, on the east bank of the Nile River.	
cake carves, that's the way the	a variation of that's the way the cookie crumbles.
See also cookie crumbles, that's the way the in this glossary.	
Calakahoochie Indians	a made-up name for a tribe of Indians.	
Calcutta	one of the largest cities in India and the world. It suffers from poverty, overcrowding and unemployment.	
California Institute of Technocracy	a joking reference to the California Institute of Technology, a privately controlled college of engineering and science, and research institute in Pasadena, California. Technocracy is a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.	
Caligula	(A.D. 12-41) Roman emperor (37-41).  At first he ruled with moderation but a serious illness a few months after his accession is believed to have affected his sanity.  Thereafter he behaved as an increasingly bloodthirsty and vicious tyrant.	
call girl	(informal) a prostitute who may be summoned by the telephone.	
Calvin	John Calvin (1509-1564), French theologian and religious reformer. Founder of Calvinism.
See also Calvinist in this glossary.	
Calvin, John	(1509-1564) French theologian and religious reformer. Calvin taught that only certain persons, the elect, were chosen by God to be saved, and these could be saved only by God's grace.
[Definition of Presbyterian church] a Protestant denomination based on the doctrines of John Calvin. . .	
Calvinist	one who follows the religious teachings of John Calvin. Calvin taught that only certain persons, the elect, were chosen by God to be saved, and these could be saved only by God's grace.
See also Calvin in this glossary.	
Cambridge	Cambridge University, a famous university at Cambridge, England, founded in the 1200s.	
Camden	a city in southwest New Jersey, on the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was here that LRH held the First American ACC (6 October-13 November 1953) and the Second American ACC (17 November-22 December 1953).	
camel’s back, the one that broke the	(informal) the final thing that, when added to an unpleasant or bad situation, causes failure, ruin, etc.	
Camille'd	reference to a novel written in 1848 by Alexandre Dumas the younger (1824-1895).  The heroine, Camille, is a beautiful courtesan who is part of the fashionable world of Paris.  Scorning the wealthy Count de Varville who has offered to relieve her debts should she once more become his mistress, she escapes to the country with her penniless lover Armand Duval.  Here Camille makes her great sacrifice.  Giving Armand whom she truly loves the impression that she has tired of their life together, but actually at the request of his family, she returns to Paris.  The tale concludes with the ultimate tragic reunion of Armand and Camille, who is dying of tuberculosis.	
Campbell, John W. "Astounding" Jr.	the editor of the magazine "Astounding Science Fiction" from 1938 until the early 50s. He was a director of the first Dianetics Foundation in New Jersey until 1951.	
Campbell, Jr., John W.	a famous science fiction editor who became a director of the first Dianetics Foundation in New Jersey until 1951.	
Camper and Nicholson	a company in England that designs and builds fine, beautiful yachts.	
Canadian Mounted Policeman	a member of a constabulary (a police force organized like an army) organized in 1873 as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian Far West and especially to prevent Indian disorders. In 1904 the name was changed to the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and in 1920 to its present title, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.	
Canberra	the capital city of Australia, in the Australian Capital Territory.	
candy stripes	diagonal, colored stripes like those on a stick of candy.	
Canned	(informal) prepared in advance.	
Canned heat	alcohol or paraffin fuel packaged to be used in small cans for heating, as with chafing dishes or in portable stoves. Due to its alcoholic content, it has been used by some hobos, bums, etc., in place of liquor.	
Cans, put (something) in the	(slang) record or film (something).  Used when referring to cinema film which is stored in large metal containers called cans.	
capacitugs	a made-up word	
Cape Canaveral	a cape on the east coast of Florida, United States; since 1947 it has been the chief US launching site for long-range test missiles and manned spaceflights. With the advent of manned spaceflight, just months before this lecture, it was then the scene of considerable activity.	
Cape Finisterre	a cape in the northeastern part of Spain, above Portugal.	
capitalism	the economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution, as land, factories, railroads, etc., are privately owned and operated for profit, originally under fully competitive conditions.	
capitalist	a person who has capital (any form of wealth employed or capable of being employed in the production of more wealth), especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.	
Capitol Hill	the United States Congress.  This expression comes from the fact that the US Capitol building, which is occupied by Congress, is located on a hill in Washington, DC.	
captain’s chair	a chair which has a rounded back formed by a heavy rail resting upon vertical spindles and coming forward to form the arms.	
carbon-brush	(electronic) of or pertaining to a current-carrying brush (a conductor serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a machine, generator or other apparatus) made of carbon, carbon and graphite, or carbon and copper.	
cards and spades	(slang) a liberal advantage. The term comes originally from the card game called casino; in this game, a player may grant his opponent an advantage before play is begun; granting "cards and spades" would be giving one's opponent a considerable number of points in advance. 	
Carla	a destructive hurricane that struck the Texas coast on September 11, 1961.	
Carnegie, Dale	American lecturer and author; writer of the book called How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936). His ideas were based originally on public speaking—later he extended them to include salesmanship and psychology.	
carrick bend	a kind of knot used for joining two ropes.	
Carroll, Lewis	pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), English author, mathematician and photographer. He is the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and other works of fantasy and nonsense.	
carrot	something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive. An allusion to the proverbial method of tempting a donkey to move by dangling a carrot before it.	
Carter, Nick	fictional detective, who was both a character in, and the pen name of the authors of, a series of dime novels published in the United States by Street and Smith in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These Nick Carter novels sold some 4 million copies of over 1,000 titles and inspired radio plays and movies.	
Caruso	Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), an Italian operatic tenor. The beauty, range and power of his voice made him one of the greatest of all singers.	
Casablanca	a seaport in West Morocco, Africa, where Arabic is the official language.	
cask hitch	a kind of knot used to secure a rope to a barrel. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
Castro	Fidel Castro (1926- ), Cuban revolutionary and premier of Cuba since 1959.  He led the revolution that overthrew the dictator of Cuba, who had the support of the United States.  Castro then presided over his country's transformation into a communist state. 	
cat jumps, the way the	the course of events; what is going to happen. A variation of see how the cat jumps, await the course of events, but see what is going to happen before you pass an opinion, support a course of action or commit yoursel£	
Cat Society	a made-up name for a society.	
cat will be out of the bag, the	(slang) a secret will have been found out. The expression, cat's out of the bag goes back to the 8th century when it was illegal to sell and eat pork. Pork lovers had to purchase their pigs in bags under the cover of darkness. Frequently, dishonest farmers would place a cat in the bag instead of a pig so when the unsuspecting pork lover returned home, he was incredibly surprised when he literally let the cat out of the bag	
cat, line of	(informal) a Variation of breed of cat: type; sort; variety.  Example: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.	
cat-and-mousing	(colloquial) behaving like a cat toying with a mouse, specifically repeatedly challenging an opponent while waiting to strike.	
Catapad	a made‑up word. 'A burmapad, a catapad, a matapad, a bootapad, so forth," you say, "you know, there must be something wrong with this line plot because I can't understand it." ‑R2 and R3: Current Auditing Rundown (21 Feb. 63)	
catatonia	(psychiatry) a condition in which a person becomes rigid and unconscious.	
catatonic schiz	See catatonic schizophrenia	
catatonic schizophrenia	(psychiatry) a very fancy word which means the condition of lying still, stiff and never moving. Catatonic refers to a seizure in which a person becomes rigid and unconscious. Schizophrenia means ”a severe mental disorder in which a person becomes unable to act or reason in a rational way.”	
catburrs	a made-up word.	
catch (someone) out	(colloquial) cause notice to be taken of (someone) due to error, inconsistency or unacceptable action.	
catch-a-lots	a made-up name for a team in a game.	
caterwump	a made-up word.	
catfootedly	noiselessly, stealthily.	
Catherine of Aragon	(1485-1536) first wife of King Henry VIII. A papal dispensation had to be obtained for her to marry Henry in 1509, as she was the widow of Henry's older brother. Henry used this alleged irregularity as an excuse for getting the marriage annulled (though he had to break with Rome to do so) in order to marry Anne Boleyn in 1533.
See also Boleyn, Anne in this glossary.	
cat's breakfast	(slang) a mess. A variation of dog's breakfast.	
caught (something) up	showed (something) to be in error.	
Cavalier, The	The Laughing Cavalier, a painting by Dutch painter Frans Hals (1580-1666).	
Cavite	a city in southwestern Luzon (the largest of the islands in the Philippines).	
ceiling bounce osie	a made-up name for an abnormal or diseased condition.	
cell	any of the smallest organisational units of a group or movement (as of the Communist Party).	
Celtic	of a group of tribes who dominated central Europe in the sixth and fifth century B.C. They came originally from southwest Germany and spread to the British Isles, France, Spain, Italy and parts of Asia.	
Censor	(psychoanalysis) a Freudian concept of a part of the mind responsible for repression of ideas, impulses and feelings, which prevents conscious knowledge of them. See also Freudian in this glossary. Of course, we're getting‑ ‑down past the Freudian censor, and a good thing, I would say. ‑Routine 3M Data (14 Feb. 63)	
central	a Telephone exchange, especially the main one, or the Telephone operator.  Used figuratively in this lecture.	
chaff, separate the wheat from the	separate what is valuable from what is worthless. This expression comes from removing the chaff (the outer covering) from grain when one is making flour.	
chain lightning	a kind of lightning which appears to zigzag, but which actually follows a winding path like a river.	
Chaldea	a region in the southern part of Babylonia, the ancient empire in southwest Asia which flourished from 2100-538 B.C. The Chaldeans were famous for studying the stars to foretell the future. Many present forms of fortunetelling were practiced by the priests and scholars of ancient Chaldea.	
Chaldean	of Chaldea	
chalk (something) up	write (something) down; record (something); credit (something).	
chalk it up	(slang) put it to (something's) credit.	
Chancellor of the Exchequer	the minister of finance in the British government, a member of the Cabinet.	
Chanel No. 5	a brand of perfume, manufactured by Chanel Company (founded in 1924) in Paris, France.	
chap	(informal) a fellow; a man or boy.	
Chapel	a building at Saint Hill, known as the chapel, where the students on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course audited each other, watched TV Demos and attended the lectures given by LRH. Oh, well, it's awful murky in the chapel in there sometimes. ‑ When Faced with the Unusual Do the Usual (7 Mar. 63)	
Chaplin, Charlie	Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977), an English filmmaker and actor of the early twentieth century; Chaplin did most of his work in the United States. In his silent film comedies, he created the beloved character, the Little Tramp, who wore a shabby black suit, derby hat and floppy shoes, and walked with a cane. In a film he made in 1928, "The Circus," (a movie where he portrays a circus hand who becomes a clown by accident) there is a famous sequence where Chaplin does a tightrope act during which the safety device breaks and he is attacked by three escaped monkeys.	
Charcot	Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), French neurologist; known for his work on hysteria and hypnotism.	
Charles V	(1500-1558) Holy Roman emperor (1519-1556) and king of Spain (1516-1556). In addition to Spain, his empire included Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Hungary, much of modernday Italy and the Spanish possessions in the New World.	
Chary or Cheeky, Dr.	a humorous made-up name for a doctor.  Chary means not taking chances; careful; cautious.  Cheeky means saucy; impudent; insolent.	
checks, pass in (one's)	(slang) die.  A Variation of pass in (one's) chips, an allusion to the American game of poker, in which a player may at any time drop from the game and pass in his chips to the banker in exchange for cash.	
Chelsea	a section of London, England, where many artists and writers live.	
chemical recorder	a type of recorder, such as those used in telegraph equipment, consisting of a metallic wire resting upon a moving, chemically treated tape. Electric current passes through the wire onto the tape causing discoloration of the tape with the message being recorded as long and short lines.	
Chestnut Lodge	short for Chestnut Lodge Hospital, a mental institution in Rockville, Maryland.	
Chew Tobacco League	a made‑up name for a league.	
chewed	(slang) talked.	
Chicago	one of the largest cities in the United States, located in northeastern Illinois on the shore of Lake Michigan.	
Chichester	a town in southern England.	
chichi	(slang) pretentious; affected (pretending in an artificial way to impress people).	
chilluns	(dialect) children.	
chimney, up the	(slang) crazy; mad.	
chin, take it on the	(slang) endure suffering or punishment.	
chin-chin	(slang) light conversation; chitchat.	
chine	the line of intersection between the sides and the bottom of a flat or V-bottom hull on a boat.	
Chinee	(slang) singular form of Chinese: a native of China.	
Chinese situation	reference to the dispute between Communist China and the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which erupted into open quarreling before the world in 1963. The Chinese accused the Soviets of tearing up agreements, arbitrary treatment, deviation, chauvinism and other anti-Marxist activities. Both sides began to denounce the other in the press, and the dialogue between the two countries remained harsh through the end of the year. Late in the year, the president of the United States warned a press conference that in the 1970s an aggressive and powerful Communist China might be the greatest menace to international peace and security.	
chips are in, when the final	(colloquial) a Variation of when the chips are down, when a situation has reached a stage at which action or a decision of great importance must be taken.  The expression comes from betting games where a player puts chips or money on the table to show how much he is willing to risk.  When all the chips are down, the players have placed their bets, but it is still unknown who will win and who will lose.	
chips, pass in (one's)	(slang) die. The allusion is to the American game of poker, in which a player may at any time drop from the game and pass in his chips to the banker in exchange for cash.	
chitter-chatter	a coined word meaning to talk lightly and rapidly, especially of trivial matters.	
chittering	talking lightly and rapidly, especially of trivial matters; chattering.	
chop	very critical or insulting remarks; cutting remarks.	
chopped up	cut into pieces. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
chopping (someone) up	giving very critical or insulting remarks about (someone).	
Christ	a strong exclamation of surprise, disbelief, dismay or the like.	
Christ Save Us	a made-up name for a song	
Christ, by	(colloquial) a mild exclamation expressing surprise, wonder, puzzlement, pleasure or the like.	
Christ-almighty	(colloquial) an exclamation of any strong feeling.	
Christ-awful	(informal) extremely dreadful or shocking.	
Christian Seience	a religion and system of healing founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866, emphasizing the belief that a thorough spiritual understanding of God as the all‑powerful source of all that is good and true ean destroy sin, sickness and the like without material aid.	
Christian, Mr.	Fletcher Christian, the leader of a mutiny against Captain William Bligh on the ship Bounty.
See also Bligh, Captain in this glossary.	
Christianity	the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.	
Christophe	Henri Christophe (1767-1820), Haitian revolutionary general; king of Haiti (1811-1820).	
Christ's sakes, for	(colloquial) an expression of impatient annoyance or surprise, especially in questions or requests.	
Chrysler Building	the second tallest building in New York City at the time of this lecture. It was completed in 1929. It is 1,046 feet high and has 77 stories and terminates in a needlelike spire. It houses the New York offices of the Chrysler Corporation and other business organizations.	
Chuck	a Scientologist in California at the time of this lecture; a former student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.	
chuck (one's) weight around	(colloquial) give orders or (one's) opinions freely, especially to impress other people.  A Variation of throw (one's) weight around.	
chucking (one's) cookies	(slang) vomiting.	
chugging	traveling or moving while making chugs, dull explosive sounds, made by or as if by a laboring engine. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
chump-a-chump	a made-up word.	
chutes, hit the	(slang) abandon an effort, project, relationship, etc. Used figuratively in this lecture to mean ”die.” The expression comes from the aviation usage of jumping from an airplane with a parachute.	
CID	abbreviation for Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard.	
cigar store Indian	a wooden image of an American Indian in a standing position, formerly placed in front of cigar stores as an advertisement.	
CinemaScope	(trademark) name of a motion-picture medium in which the use of a special lens on both a standard camera and projector gives the images greater depth when projected on a flat screen about 2M2 times as wide as it is high.	
circles, goes around in	(informal) uses the long method or takes a long time to do or obtain something.	
cireumlocutor	a made-up name for a control on a spaceship.	
Citadel de Christophe of Cap-Haitien	a mountain fortress near Cap-Haitien (a seaport in northern Haiti).  Built under the direction of Christophe in the early 1800s, it is a huge, massive structure perched on top of the highest and most inaccessible peak in the area.
See also Christophe in this glossary.	
citizen out of, make a	convince, especially by forceful or harsh means.	
citizen, become a	been convinced, especially by forceful or harsh means. A variation of make a believer out of.	
citizenitis	a made-up name for a disease.  A citizen is a member of a state or nation and -itis is a suffix meaning an inflammatory disease or inflammation of (a specified part or organ).	
citizens, become	become convinced, especially by forceful or harsh means. A variation of make believers out of 	
Civil War	American Civil War, a conflict lasting four years (1861-1865) in the United States between eleven Southern States, which asserted their right to withdraw from the United States, and the states and territories of the North, which were determined to maintain the Union.	
clam, happy as a	in a very happy manner. From the phrase happy as a clam at high tide, which comes from the fact that clams, considered a delicacy in America, are gathered only at low tide. In other words, a clam would be happy at high tide because it was not being gathered for food.	
clapstick	(motion pictures) a small board with a hinged stick attached that is clapped down at the beginning of the filming of a shot for use later in synchronizing sound and image in the editing of the film.  Also called a clapboard.	
clasamatus	a made-up name for a biological classification.	
classed	assigned a class. Class, when referring to vessels of commerce, means the character assigned to a vessel, depending on the design of the vessel, the quality of the materials employed, and the outfit and equipment, all of which should be up to the minimum standards required for a particular type of vessel. To ensure that the condition and seaworthiness of classed vessels are maintained they are examined periodically and upon the result of such survey depends the continuance of the class.	
clean	purged of remaining pockets of enemy resistance. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
clear as a bell	(colloquial) very clear.	
Cleopatra's obelisk	one of Cleopatra's (queen of Egypt 51-49 B.C. and 48-30 B.C.) Needles, two obelisks of red granite erected in Egypt more than 3,300 years ago. one obelisk was 69 feet tall, 7M2 feet thick at the base and weighed 200 tons.	
click to its name, hasn't got a	has no reaction at all. A variation of not have a penny to one's name, have no money at all.	
clobbing	a coined term meaning moving or going.	
clock, fix (one's)	punish, injure or ruin (one).	
clock, fix (someone's)	punish, injure or ruin (someone).	
clot	(colloquial) a fool; a chump (a foolish, stupid or gullible person).	
cloud ten, on	(colloquial) entertaining visionary notions and so having no distinct idea about the matter in question.  A Variation of have (one's) head in the clouds.	
clue, have no	(informal) are completely uncertain of what to do, what is correct, etc.	
clue, haven't got a	(informal) are completely uncertain of what to do, what is correct, etc.	
clunk	(slang) an old and worn-out machine, especially a car.	
Coach and Horses	the name of a former London pub.	
Coast Guard	the government organization whose work is protecting lives and property and preventing smuggling along the coasts of the United States. The Coast Guard also saves lives of persons wrecked at sea and patrols the navigable waterways. It is under the navy in wartime and under the Department of Transportation in peacetime.	
cobalt 60	a radioactive form of cobalt, a hard, lustrous steel‑gray metallic element.	
Coca‑Cola	(trademark) the brand name of a popular American soft drink.	
cocked hat, knock (someone or something) into a	(colloquial) beat or defeat (someone or something) completely; be of much higher quality or value than.  A cocked hat was a type of three-cornered hat worn in the eighteenth century.  It was made by folding the edge of the round hat worn in the seventeenth century into corners.  The phrase first meant to change something completely and later to defeat someone or something completely.	
cocked hat, throw (something) into a	(colloquial) beat or defeat (something) completely; be of much higher quality or value than. A cocked hat was a type of three-cornered hat worn in the eighteenth century. It was made by folding the edge of the round hat worn in the seventeenth century into corners. The phrase first meant to change something completely and later to defeat someone or something completely.	
cockeyed	(slang) foolishly; absurdly.	
cocktail	suitable for wear on semiformal occasions. This comes from the fact that semiformal attire is worn to a cocktail party (a party, especially one intended for social conversation, at which alcoholic drinks called cocktails are served).	
cocktail party	a party, especially one intended for social conversation, at which cocktails (alcoholic drinks) are served.	
coco, fell on (one's)	(colloquial) a variation of fell on (one's) heads failed to be successful. Coco is slang for head.	
Coffee and cakes	(slang) small wages; pittance	
coin, opposite sides of the	opposite or reverse aspects; opposite points of view.	
Coke	trademark for Coca-Cola (the brand name of a popular American soft drink).	
Colchester	a city in eastern England, near the North Sea.	
cold cocked	(slang) struck so as to make unconscious.	
Coldstream	(British army) short for British Coldstream Guards, a body of picked foot-soldiers for special service as a guard. Given this name in 1670 as they were the regiment which crossed the Tweed River (river running between Scotland and England) at Coldstream, Scotland into England and played a significant part in the restoration of Charles II. Their uniform consists of a scarlet tunic with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder-straps, blue trousers and a high, rounded bearskin cap.	
collar, burning under the	(colloquial) angry, excited, worried, confused, etc. A Variation of hot under the collar.	
Collier's magazine	a US weekly magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier (1846-1909).	
color bar, run the	a variation of draw the color line: observe a color line, a social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation as between white and black people.	
color wheel	a chart showing a continuous circle of colors, normally consisting of twelve hues (yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red, red-violet, violet, blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green).  The sequence of the colors is that of the rainbow or natural spectrum, and their relative positions on the circle are used in determining types of color harmonies.  See diagram below.
yellow
 yellow  yellow-orange
 green  range
 blue-green  red-orange
 blue  d
 blue-vi  d-violet
  violet	
Colorado River	the chief river of the arid southwestern United States, which flows from the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. The course of the river cuts through deep canyons, including the Grand Canyon.	
Columbia University	a university in New York City, New York.	
Columbus	Christopher Columbus (ca. 1446-1506), Italian explorer who believed that the Earth was round, and that trade routes with Asia could be established by sailing westward.  In August 1492, with eighty-seven men and three ships (Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria) he set sail for the west and discovered the Western Hemisphere.	
come hell or high water	(colloquial) whatever may happen.	
come off of it	(slang) stop pretending, bragging, kidding; stop being silly.	
coming-out party	(informal) a social debut (the formal presentation of a girl to society).	
Commandments	(Bible) short for Ten Commandments: the ten laws forming the fundamental moral code of Israel, given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.	
comment?	(French interjection) what?	
commie	(informal) communist.	
Commissar Zero	a made-up name for a person. A commissar is the head of a government department in the Soviet Union.	
communism	a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.	
communist	a person who advocates communism: a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.	
Communist Party	a political party advocating the principles of communism.
See also communist in this glossary.	
communistic	advocating or having characteristics of communism, a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.	
complex	(psychology) an idea or group of repressed ideas associated with a past emotional disturbance so as to influence a person's present behavior to a great or excessive degree. Used loosely in this lecture.	
Comptometer	(trademark) a machine formerly made by Victor Technologies that added, subtracted, divided and multiplied mechanically.
a calculating machine.  From the name of a machine invented in 1887 by D. E. Felt, American inventor, designed to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.	
Compur shutter	(photography) a German-made between-lens shutter (a device for opening and closing the hole in front of a camera lens to expose the film) of high quality and precision.	
Condon	Edward Uhler Condon (1902-1974), American physicist; director of the US Bureau of Standards (1945-1951).	
cone down to (something)	come down to (a point), as of a cone.	
coned in, being	coming to a point.	
cones	comes to ä point, like a cone.	
cones down to (something)	comes down to (a point), as of a cone.	
Confederacy, the	the group of eleven Southern States that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861; the Confederate States of America.
See also Civil War in this glossary.	
Confederate	of or belonging to the Confederacy: the group of eleven Southern States that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861.  Used humorously in this lecture in reference to the fact that the Confederacy never issued a seven-dollar bill, and the money that they did issue became worthless after their defeat in 1865.	
Confederate army	the army of the Confederacy: the group of eleven Southern states that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861.	
Confederate forces	the army of the Confederacy: the group of eleven Southern States that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861.	
conflugence	a made-up word.	
conflusions	a made-up word.	
Confucius	(ca. 551-479 B.C.) an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher whose philosophy of ethics stressed two virtues: the rules of proper conduct and benevolent love.  Confucius taught many other virtues, including loyalty, faithfulness, wisdom, rightness and self-cultivation.  These virtues he summed up in his ideal of the true Gentleman, or "the princely or superior man."	
con-game	(slang) short for confidence game meaning to swindle someone by first gaining their confidence. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
Congo	a country in central Africa, on the equator: a former Belgian colony, 1908-1960. It gained independence from Belgium in 1960, but the new Republic of the Congo was soon torn by ethnic and personal rivalries. The ensuing civil war, which involved United Nations forces, Belgian troops and US and Soviet support of opposing factions did not end until 1963. The country's name was changed to Zaire in 1971.	
conked out	(slang) failed suddenly in operation.	
Conservatism	the principles and practices of the Conservative Party, in Great Britain, a major right-wing political party. It came into being in 1832 and advocated the defense of the Church of England and protection of agricultural interests. Later, it strongly supported imperialism. After World War II, it led Britain into the European Common Market and continued the social programs initiated earlier by the Labor Party.	
Constantine	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
Constitution	short for the Constitution of the United States: the fundamental law of the United States, composed in 1787 by the Constitutional Convention. It went into effect March 4, 1789.	
Constitutional Convention	the convention in Philadelphia (1787) at which the Constitution of the United States was composed and written down. It was attended by representatives of each of the former Colonies (the British colonies which formed the original thirteen States of the United States), except for Rhode Island.	
Conway, Peggy	a Scientologist working in South Africa in the late 1950s.	
coo	(British slang) an interjection used to express surprise or amazement.	
Cook County	the name for a county in three US states. Used in this lecture without reference to any specific one.	
cook, what makes (one)	(colloquial) what causes (one) to behave or think as he does, or what causes (a machine, political system, etc.) to work. A variation of what makes (one) tick.	
cooked	(slang) excited, stimulated.	
cooked (someone's) books	changed the written details or records of what a business, organization, person, etc., has spent and earned, especially in order to take money unlawfully.	
cooked up	(colloquial) made-up; invented.	
cookie crumbles, that is the way the	(slang) such is life; such are the buffetings (blows or shocks) of fate.	
cooking	(slang) taking place, developing or happening	
cooking with gas	(slang) succeeding, doing very well; acting or thinking correctly.	
Cook's tour	a complete and detailed viewing, especially when regarded as excessive. From the British travel agency Thomas Cook and Sons.	
Coolidge, President	Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), president of the United States 1923-1929. Coolidge was renowned for using few words; he announced his retirement from the presidency in one sentence: "I do not choose to run for president in 1928."	
coonbat	a made-up word.	
Cooper Special	a race car made by Cooper Industries (a British car company founded in 1947).	
Cooper, Gary	(1901‑1961) US motion‑picture actor, mainly associated with Westerns (films about cowboys, Indians, cattle, etc., during the period from the 1850s to 1890s in the US).	
copacetic	(slang) completely satisfactory; okay.	
copperplate	a fine, elegant style of handwriting.	
Corbli'	(British slang) an intezjection used to express surprise or excitement. A variation of gorblimey (derived from "God blind me"). Yeahum‑Marjorie, my wife., wrote to me and said he'd been up, you see, and so on, and that was the thing that made me ‑that was the moment when I wondered, "Corbli'll " you know, "what did he , 11 . " ‑TV Demo: Rudiments and Havingness Session and Short Lecture (20 Mar. 63)	
Corcoran	the Corcoran Gallery of Art, a gallery that exhibits American art; located in Washington, DC.	
cork, blown its	(informal) become ruined; ended suddenly.	
corl-blam	(informal) a euphemistic variation of goddamn, an exclamation of any strong feeling, especially of disgust or irritation.	
corn	something that is inane, fatuous or sappy.	
corn around	(slang) a Variation of mess around, engage in idle or purposeless activity.	
cornea of the thrombosis	a made‑up name for a disease. The cornea is the transparent outer coat of the eyeball, covering the iris and pupil. Thrombosis is the blockage of an artery by a clot of blood.	
Cornwall	a county at the southwest tip of England.	
cotton-picking	(slang) damned; confounded.	
council house	(British) a town hall; a building belonging to a town, used for the town's business, and often also as a place for public meetings.	
count, by the	(slang) in a prescribed way; mechanically. A variation of by the numbers.	
count, going down for the last	being utterly defeated; ruined. From the count of ten made over a downed boxer.	
Coventry	a city in central England. Some of its major industries are automobile and aircraft manufacturing, iron and brick molding, and the production of bicycles and electrical appliances.	
Coventry	a city in central England. Some of its major industries are automobile and aircraft manufacturing, iron and brick molding, and the production of bicycles and electrical appliances.	
Coventry, sent to	(informal) punished by a group of people by their refusing to speak or associate with one as a result of having offended them or broken some rule. This expression dates from the time of the English Civil War of the seventeenth century between King Charles I and Parliament. Coventry, a city in central England, was a Parliamentary stronghold. The soldiers of the king were so disliked by the citizens there that when they were captured in neighboring towns, they were sent to Coventry, where it was known that the people would ignore them, not speak to them and carry on as if they were not there.	
cowboy in the black hat	a villain. In early black-and-white American cowboy movies, the villain always wore a black hat while the hero always wore a white hat.	
cowboy in the white hat	a law-abiding, morally upright, and heroic person, as distinct from the villainous black hat.
See also cowboy in the black hat in this glossary.	
cow's breakfast	a humorous variation of dog's breakfast.
See also dog's breakfast in this glossary.	
cows come home, until the	(colloquial) for a long time.	
cow's dinner	a variation of the phrase dog's breakfast.
See dogs breakfast in this glossary.	
cow's dinner	(slang) a variation of the phrase dog's breakfast, a mess.	
Crane, Stephen	(1871-1900) an American writer and war correspondent who is most known as the writer of the novel Red Badge of Courage.
See also Red Badge of Courage in this glossary.	
crap game	a gambling game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3 or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.	
crash, with a	(colloquial) using all possible resources, effort and speed.	
crash-wagon	an emergency vehicle equipped for aid after an airplane crash, automobile accidents, etc.; an ambulance.	
Crawley	a town in West Sussex, England, just a few miles from East Grinstead.	
Crazy Avenue	a made‑up name for an avenue.	
crazy, like	(colloquial) very much, hard, fast, etc.	
créme de la créme	(French) the very best; the choicest parts or members. The phrase literally means cream of the cream.	
cricket, merry as a	(colloquial) very happy.	
cripe	(slang) an exclamation of annoyance, disgust, etc.	
Cronus	(mythology) the youngest Titan, who led the Titans in a revolt and ruled the world. He fathered the great gods of Greek mythology, including Zeus.
See also Titans in this glossary.	
cropper, came a	(informal) failed; were struck by some misfortune.	
cropper, run a	(informal) fail; be struck by some misfortune.	
crosses up	(slang) mixes up; confuses; leads astray; deceives.	
crosswise, looked at (someone)	(slang) committed the smallest fault; did any trivial thing out of the ordinary. A variation of looked at (someone) cross-eyed.	
crossword	like a crossword puzzle, an arrangement of numbered squares to be filled in with words, a letter to each square, so that a letter in a horizontal word is usually also part of a vertical word.	
crown	a knot formed by tucking the strands of a rope's end over and under each other to lock them and prevent them unraveling.	
crown attorney	a lawyer in England who practices in criminal cases.	
crown jewels	the jewels which are the hereditary regalia (emblems of royalty) of the crown or royal family of any country.	
crunch, with a	(colloquial) with sudden force or effectiveness. A variation of with a bang.	
cry, füll	the most exciting, noisy or important part of a chase, attack, etc. Referring to hunting dogs, which make a characteristic noise when they get the smell of the animal that is being hunted. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
crystal ball	a ball of rock crystal or glass typically used by fortunetellers to gaze into and predict the future.	
crystal receiver	an early radio receiver that used a crystal device instead of vacuum tubes to separate the signal from the carrier wave. These required exceptionally strong signals and were incapable of separating closely adjacent radio stations.	
crystal-balling	a coined word for the practice of gazing into a large glass ball (crystal ball) and claiming to see images, especially of future events.	
Cuba	anisland country on an island in the West Indies, south of Florida. In 1959, uder the leadership of Fidel Castro (1927- ), Cuba became the only communist state in Latin America and a firm ally of the USSR.  In 1961 it was the site of the Bay of Pigs invasion, an attempt to oust Castro's government.  This attack was approved by the United States president, John F. Kennedy.  In 1962 the USSR began secretly building missile launching sites in Cuba which the US demanded be dismantled.
 See also Kennedy in this glossary.	
Cuban invasion	reference to the Cuban missile crisis: a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. On 22 October, President John F. Kennedy of the United States announced the existence of these missile sites. The United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that the Russians remove the missiles.	
cube, by the	by an extremely large ratio; used figuratively in reference to cubing a number, which is to multiply a number by itself three times. For example, 5 cubed is 5 x 5 x 5 = 125.	
cubist	of or pertaining to cubism: a movement in art, especially of the early 20th century, characterized by a separation of the subject into cubes and other geometric forms in abstract arrangements rather than by a realistic representation of nature.	
cuff, on the	agreeing to pay later; to be paid for later on; on credit.	
curiosa	a curiosity; something curious, strange, rare or novel.	
curls (one's) hair	(slang) shocks or appalls (one).	
Curtis steam turbine	an engine driven by the pressure of steam against the curved vanes of a wheel on a shaft which was invented by Charles Gordon Curtis (1860-1953), and widely used in electric power plants and marine propulsion.	
curve on (someone), throwing a little bit of a	(colloquial) taking (someone) by surprise.	
curve, around the	a variation of the phrase around the bend, insane; crazy.	
curve, throw (someone) a	(colloquial) take (someone) by surprise.	
curves, thrown a couple of	(informal) misled or deceived; lied to.	
Custer	a person similar to George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), US general killed, along with all of his soldiers, in a battle with the Sioux Indians on the Little Bighorn River.	
cut and bang	(informal) a Variation of cut and dried, settled or decided; unlikely to change.	
cut and run	(informal) abandon an unfavorable situation.	
Cutsbin, Doctor	a made-up name for a doctor.	
cutting (something) to ribbons	examining (something) very closely and criticising severely. A variation of tearing to pieces.	
Cutwin, Doctor	a made-up name for a doctor.	
cyan	a blue-green color.	
cylinders, missing on most	not operating properly. From an automobile engine where one or more spark plugs fail to ignite (miss) and so do not cause an explosion in the cylinder properly or at the right time. The more this occurs, the worse the car will run.	
da	(dialect) the.	
da Vinci	Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scientist. His versatility and creative power, as well as the richness and originality expressed in his drawings, paintings, etc., mark him as one of the great minds of all time.	
dagging	walking in a slovenly way; trailing or dragging, especially in the dirt, mud or mire.	
Daily Express, The	one of the leading English newspapers, established in 1900.	
Daily Mail, The	a London newspaper first printed in 1896.	
Daimler	an elegant, high-quality car manufactured by Daimler Motor Company of England, founded in 1896.	
Dakota	an airplane manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company; it was one of the most widely used aircraft for military and civilian transport during and for years after World War II.	
Dallas	a large industrial and commercial city in northeastern Texas. President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed on a visit to this city on November 22, 1963.	
damn it	(colloquial) an expression of annoyance or dissatisfaction, etc.	
damn well	(informal) certainly or without doubt; emphatically.	
damps out	reduces or stops.	
dang	(colloquial) damn; used to make a statement more intense.
(colloquial) an exclamation of disappointment, irritation, frustration, etc.	
Daniel	(Bible) a prophet who, during the captivity of the Israelites in Babylon in the sixth century B.C., continued to pray to his God against the express command of the king. He was thrown into a lions' den to be devoured but per the story in the Bible, God sent an angel to protect him and he emerged miraculously unharmed the next day.	
Dantes	a reference to Dante: originally Durante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet who wrote The Divine Comedy, an epic recounting an imaginary journey by the author through hell, purgatory and paradise.	
Darius, His Majesty's	Darius I (?-486 B.C.) king of ancient Persia (now called Iran) from 521-486 B.C. Around 512 B.C. Darius seized part of Europe, including two Greek colonies which rebelled against Persian rule in 499 B.C.	
Dark Ages	the Middle Ages, especially the earlier part from about A.D. 476 to about the end of the tenth century: so called from the idea that this period in Europe was characterized by intellectual stagnation, widespread ignorance and poverty, and cultural decline.	
Dark Horse Nebula	the Horsehead Nebula, a dark cloudlike mass in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.	
Dartmoor Scrubs	a prison located on a bleak plateau in southwestern England. It was opened in 1809 as a station for receiving French prisoners of war.	
Darwin	a seaport in and capital -of Northern Territory, in northern Australia. 
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist and author; originated theory of evolution by natural selection. By natural selection, any characteristic of an individual that allows it to survive to produce more offspring will eventually appear in every individual of the species, simply because those members will have more offspring.	
Darwinian	of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist and author who originated the theory of evolution by natural selection. This theory holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that the forms which survive are those that are best adapted to the environment. They’re dramatizing its Darwinian implant that's up the line up here. -PTPs, Overts and ARC Breaks (10 Nov. 64)	
Darwinian theory	the theory of evolution by natural selection developed by Charles Darwin (1809-1882).  This theory holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that the forms which survive are those that are best adapted to the environment	
das	(German) the.	
Das Kapital	a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based. English translation is The Capital.	
dat	(dialect) that.	
dat's	(dialect) that is.	
de	(dialect) the.	
de Camp, L. Sprague	(1907‑ ) a well‑known American science fiction writer.	
de Gaulle, General	Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) the president of France 1959-1969.	
De Mille, Cecil B.	(1881-1959) American film director. He entered the film industry in 1913, founded the Paramount Company and pioneered the production of lavish and spectacular films.	
dead	absolutely; completely.	
dead body of (someone), over the	(colloquial) against the strongest resistance of (someone).	
dead body, over (one's)	(colloquial) against the strongest resistance of (one).	
dead horse to death, beating a	(colloquial) continuing to try to get satisfaction from something that cannot or can no longer give it.  From a person who beats a horse to make it go even though it is dead, thus doing something that is completely useless.	
Dead Man Bend	a made-up name for a curve in a road that is very dangerous	
deader than a doornail	(slang) very dead, completely and absolutely nonresponsive.	
dead‑on	(informal) exaetly right, accurate or pertinent.	
dealing them off the top of the deck	giving them out one after the other in a totally predictable manner. An expression taken from dealing in card games.	
dealt off the bottom of the deck	given out without (one's) awareness or conscious knowledge.  An expression taken from a method of dealing in card games whereby the dealer covertly gives certain players a playing card from the bottom of the deck instead of from the top.	
dealt off the top of the deck	given out one after the other in a totally predictable manner.  An expression taken from dealing in card games.	
death dues	something due, owed or naturally belonging to someone due to the death of another.	
Death lesson	a reference to stories dreamed up and distributed in England in 1961 which claimed children were being taught to imagine themselves dead.	
death lessons	stories dreamed up and distributed in 1961 which claimed children were being taught to imagine themselves dead.	
death on	(informal) disliking or strongly against.	
Death Valley	a desert region in eastern California and southern Nevada; the location of the lowest point below sea level in the Americas. It receives less than 2 inches of rain a year and has recorded some of the world's highest temperatures.	
death, beat (something) to	(colloquial) deal with or discuss (something) until it is no longer in any way interesting A variation of flog to death.	
Decca	a brand of electronic equipment.	
deck court-martial	a military trial or court of little formality, usually held with just one officer, for judging minor offenses. In the Navy these would be held by the Deck Officer (the officer on watch and representing the captain).	
deck sailor	a common sailor most of whose duties are performed on the main deck.	
déclassé	(French) reduced to or having low or lower status.	
deep end, going off the	acting excitedly and without careful thinking.	
deep six, gave (someone) the	(slang) disposed of (someone); rejected (someone). The term is originally nautical and meant to throw someone overboard or give someone a burial at sea, suggesting throwing someone into water six fathoms deep.	
Delhi	a city in north-central India. New Delhi, the nation's capital, is a division of Delhi.	
Delilah	(Old Testament) the Philistine lover of Samson (an Israelite servant of God whose principal aim was to free the Israelites from the yoke of the Philistines). She tricked him into telling her that the secret of his strength lay in his uncut hair and so she cut his hair while he slept and then called for the Philistines who captured and blinded him. During captivity his hair grew back and he eventually pulled the Philistines' banquet hall down on their heads.	
delta craft	flying craft that are triangular‑shaped, like the Greek capital delta (A).	
dementia praecox	a psychiatric term meaning schizophrenia (also a psychiatric term) which is a major mental disorder typically characterized by a separation of the thought processes and the emotions, a distortion of reality accompanied by delusions and hallucinations, a fragmentation of the personality, motor (involving muscular movement) disturbances, bizarre behavior, etc. The word schizophrenia comes from Greek, meaning split mind.	
Dementia Praecox Boulevard	a made‑up name for a boulevard. Dementia praecox is a psychiatric term meaning schizophrenia	
democracy	government in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives; rule by the ruled.	
Democrat	(politics) a member of the Democratic party, one of the two major political parties in the US, founded in 1828. This party is generally inclined to favor the rights of States over those of the Federal government. 	
demon rum, the	(slang) alcohol or liquor.	
Demosthenian	like or similar to that of Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.), statesman and greatest orator of ancient Greece. He is said to have overcome a childhood stutter by forcing himself to speak with pebbles in his mouth.	
Dennison	short for Dennison Manufacturing Company, a company that manufactures paper products.	
Denny	a Melbourne staff member at the time of this lecture. Actually, what happened is, is we finished training up Ross Turnbull and Denny was already holding the fort out there, and Ross Turnbull has been straightening up things in Melbourne very nicely and doing a beautiful job. ‑R3M.‑ How to Find Goals (19 Mar. 63)	
densitometer	(photography) an instrument for measuring a negative's density (relative degree of opaqueness).	
Dental Association	an organization of dentists whose purpose is to improve public health and promote the science and art of dentistry.	
Department of Justice	the department of the US federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws.  It includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.	
der	(German) the.	
dere	(dialect) there.	
Descartes	Ren6 Descartes (1596-1650), French mathematician and philosopher.  He is often called the father of modern philosophy.  He discarded the authoritarian systems of the scholastic philosophers and began with universal doubt.  He believed that only one thing cannot be doubted: doubt itself.  Therefore, the doubter must exist.  This is the kernel of his famous assertion "I think, therefore 1 am." From this seed of certainty, Descartes expanded knowledge, step by step, to admit the existence of God (as the first cause) and the reality of the physical world which he held to be entirely divorced from the mind.	
dese	(dialect) these.	
desk sergeant	the police official on duty at the reception desk.	
Detroit	the largest city in the state of Michigan, in the United States. As the center of automobile production, it is often referred to as the "Motor City" or "Motown."	
devil of it, for the	(colloquial) only as a form of pleasure, excitement, etc., especially (of a dangerous or criminal action) for no good reason.	
devil out of, chews the	(slang) defeats or thrashes thoroughly. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
devil with (it)	(colloquial) I, we, etc., do not care about (a person or thing).	
devil, as the	(colloquial) exceedingly.	
devil, how the	how (used emphatically as an expression of impatience, irritation, strong surprise, dismay or vexation).	
devil, like the	(colloquial) very much, very hard, very fast, etc.	
devil, raise any	(informal) start an argument.	
devil, raise the	(colloquial) make a great disturbance.	
devil, raised so much the	(colloquial) made a very great disturbance.	
devil, raised the	(colloquial) made a great disturbance.	
devil, raises the	(colloquial) makes a great disturbance.	
devil, raising the	(colloquial) making a great disturbance.	
devil, the	(colloquial) an intensifier of no very precise meaning. 
(informal) an expression of impatience, irritation, strong surprise, dismay or vexation.	
devil, what the	what (used emphatically). 
(colloquial) an expression used in emphatic answers to statements that the speaker disbelieves or feels anger at.	
devil's own time	(informal) something that is difficult to do.	
devil's own time, took the	(colloquial) took an excessive amount of time.	
Devon	a county, also known as Devonshire, of southwest England, on the English Channel.	
devotion or penance	some of which employ whirling dances and the chanting of religious formulas to produce a collective ecstasy.	
DEW line	abbreviation for Distant Early Warning line, a net of distant early warning radar stations located at about sixty-nine degrees latitude ranging from northwestern Alaska to northeastern Canada. In 1959 agreements were made by the US with Canada to take over the manning of the Distant Early Warning line designed to prevent any surprise attack across the region of the North Pole and for cooperation with Canada in atomic defense.	
Dexedrine	(trademark) brand name of a drug used as a stimulant (any drug that temporarily speeds up the activity of the heart or some other organ).	
dey	(dialect) they.	
dialectic materialism	in logic, "dialectic" is the action and reaction between opposites, out of which a new synthesis (harmony of the two opposites) emerges. This was an idea originated by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831). "Materialism" is a philosophy which maintains that there is nothing in the universe but matter, that mind is a phenomenon of matter and that there is no ground for assuming a spiritual first cause. "Dialectical materialism" was an adaption of these ideas by German revolutionary leader and founder of modern socialism, Karl Marx (1818-1883), into his own "general laws of motion which govern the evolution of nature and society." He held that a conflict of opposites in human society is the evolutionary process by which a classless society would eventually be reached.	
Diamond Dick	reference to Deadwood Dick, a popular dime novel hero of the 1890s, created by Edward L. Wheeler. Once a bandit, Deadwood Dick became a stage driver and detective. Deadwood refers to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota in the US.
See also dime novel in this glossary.	
Diana	Diana Hubbard, the eldest daughter of L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard. 	
Dianazene	a formula combining nicotinic acid with other vitamins and minerals which was developed to make the intake of nicotinic acid more effective in handling radiation.	
diapason	either of two principal stops in an organ.  Open diapason is a stop that gives full, majestic tones.  Stopped diapason is a stop that gives powerful, flutelike tones.	
diaphragm	a device to regulate the amount of light entering the lens of a camera, microscope, etc.	
dibble	(figurative) employ oneself in a dilettante way; work on and off at.	
dicey	(informal) unpredictable; risky; uncertain.	
Dick	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture. Dick, go to the back of the room there and ring up "05. " ‑When Faced with the Unusual, Do the Usual (7 Mar. 63)	
Dickens	Charles Dickens (1812-1870), a prolific English novelist of the late nineteenth century whose books are noted for picturesque and extravagant characters in the lower economic strata of England at that time.  After his first novel was published in 1836, he never stopped writing.  He was always busy, writing for hours every day on novels, short stories and magazine articles.
the works of Charles Dickens 	
dickens, raise the	(colloquial) make a great disturbance. A variation of raise the devil.	
Dienststelle	(German) agency; office.	
diesel oil	a combustible petroleum distillate used as fuel for diesel engines.	
Diesel, Rudolf	(1858-1913) a German inventor born in Paris. In 1892, he patented an internal combustion engine (later known as a Diesel engine) in which the fuel is ignited by heat following compression. He produced his first successful engine in 1897. In 1913, he disappeared at sea.	
dig (someone) in	fix (someone) firmly in a position.  Used figuratively.	
dime novel	a cheap, sensational novel which was first sold in 1860 for a dime. The quality of this type of novel dropped in the 1880s and was eclipsed by other series, pulp magazines and comic strips in the 1890s.	
dip	to lower and then raise again the ensign (flag carried by a ship as an insignia of her nationality) as a mark of courtesy to a passing vessel.	
diplomate	a person who has received a diploma, especially a doctor, engineer, etc., who has been certified as a specialist by a board within the appropriate profession.	
Dir Mat	short for Director of Materiel, the staff member, at the time of this lecture, who handled all materiel matters, supplies, transport, construction, maintenance and cleaning in a Scientology organization.	
dish out	(informal) give in large quantities. 
(slang) distribute; issue.	
dished	(colloquial) hindered; obstructed. 
(slang) totally ruined.	
Dixie	a lively song about the Southern states of the United States, written in 1859 by Daniel D. Emmett (1815-1904). It was used to build enthusiasm for the South during the Civil War.	
Doakes, Joe	any man, the average man. A variation of John Doe.	
Doakes, Joe Aloysius Q.	a made-up name for an average man.	
Doakes, Mr.	a made-up name for a person. 	
dock strike	reference to a month-long strike in March and April 1962 of three unions representing unlicensed seamen on the Pacific Coast of the United States. The strike was called over the wage and benefit provisions of a new contract being negotiated between the labor unions and management. Management wanted to give a 12 percent pay increase over three years, while the labor unions wanted an 18 percent increase in this time.	
dodger	(nautical) a shield, as of canvas, erected on a flying bridge (a small structure over the main bridge of a ship, for use in navigating) to protect persons on watch from wind, flying spray, etc.	
does for	(slang) kills.	
Dog Hollow	a made-up name for a place.	
dog it off	(nautical) twist the end of a rope round another rope or a spar in order to maintain a temporary grip.  Used figuratively in this lecture.	
dog lie, let a	a variation of let sleeping dogs lie, let well alone;	
dogged out	(slang) was a failure. 
very tired.  A Variation of dog-tired.	
doggo	(British slang) in hiding; quiet and unobtrusive; low-profile.	
dog's breakfast	(slang) a mess. 	
Dogs Breakfast Street	a made-up name for a street.
See also dogs breakfast in this glossary. 	
dog's chance, hasn't got a	(informal) has no chance (of something).	
doitiest	(New York dialect) dirtiest.	
doll	something excellent; a cherished and valuable object. 
(slang) a person or thing that is remarkable or extraordinary.	
doll, like a	(colloquial) perfectly. Variation of like a charm.	
dollar, bet (one's) bottom	be absolutely assured; count on it.	
Don	Don Breeding, a person who did research and helped LRH on development of the E-Meter.	
Don Quixote	the hero of a novel written in the seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist and poet). Don Quixote (don is a Spanish title of honor), loses his wits from reading too many romances and comes to believe that he is a knight destined to revive the golden age of chivalry and as such has many adventures. At one point in the story, his inability to distinguish reality from imagination leads him to attack a windmill thinking it is a giant.	
doodle-daddle	engaged in aimless or foolish actions. 	
doodle-daddled up	a coined term meaning full of useless stuff and nonsense.	
doodle-daddles	a coined term for aimless, foolish actions.
a coined word meaning marks, designs, figures, etc.	
doodle-daddling	a coined term meaning acting or moving aimlessly.	
doodle-dads	a coined word meaning aimless, foolish actions.	
doodle-gun	a made-up name for a type of gun. Doodle is a mark, design, etc., made in doodling.	
Doré, Gustave	(1833-1883) French illustrator and painter famous for his masterly and imaginative illustrations of classics, such as Dante's Inferno and Cervantes' Don Quixote.  In Doré's time, illustrations were reproduced using a hand-printing process which required an etching as the original from which prints could be made.	
Dormaphone	a record player device which played data to an individual while he slept, the idea being that he would retain the data when he awoke. Dorma means "sleep," phone means "sound."	
Dostoevski	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (1821-1881), Russian novelist who won recognition both inside and outside Russia.  He probed more deeply into the mind than any previous novelist, especially into the abnormal and criminal mind.
See also Brothers Karamazov, The in this glossary.	
double (it) in brass	(informal) do two different things (with it); make (it) useful for two purposes.	
double Dutch	(slang) language that cannot be understood, especially overly technical jargon. 	
double in brass	(informal) do two different things; be useful for two purposes.	
double-barreled whirl-devil	a coined term Tom double-barreled, double, twofold and dust devil, a small whirlwind that swirls dust, debris and sand to great heights.	
double-fisted	(slang) crude and clumsy; lacking in finesse.	
double-rooted whizzle	a made-up phrase.	
Dover	a seaport in southeastern England; the point nearest France.	
down for the third time, go	(slang) drown after having come to the surface for air three times.  The term comes from an actual belief held that a drowning person would rise to the surface for air three times before he would finally sink.  Used figuratively in this lecture.	
down for the third time, goes	(slang) drowns after having come to the surface for air three times. The term comes from an actual belief held that a drowning person would rise to the surface for air three times before he would finally sink. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
down for the third time, gone	(slang) drowned after having come to the surface for air three times. The term comes from an actual belief held that a drowning person would rise to the surface for air three times before he would finally sink.	
down-at-the-heels	a person who is poorly kept up or dressed, shabby, not neat; a sloppy person.	
Drake, Charlie	(1925- ) diminutive British IV comedian with a high-pitched voice and tendency to acrobatic slapstick. His real name is Charles Springall.	
dramatis personae	the characters in a play or story (used here to refer to people present in the incidents of the aberree).	
draw, quick on the	very quick.  From the image of a Western gunfighter drawing a gun.	
drawing a wider bow	(figurative) a coined term meaning to include a greater sphere. From the action of pulling the string of a bow further back in order to increase the range of an arrow shot from it.	
drawing board	a flat, smooth board on which paper, canvas, etc., is fastened for making drawings.	
dream, like a	(colloquial) perfectly.	
dream, like a startled	(colloquial) variation of like a dream meaning perfectly.	
dream, like a well-oiled	(colloquial) perfectly. A variation of the phrase like a dream.	
dress parade	a formal parade of soldiers or sailors in dress uniform (a military uniform worn on formal occasions).	
dried (one's) ears	(informal) showed (one) how to do something. A variation of dry behind the ears, experienced; knowing how to do something	
drink, drive (one) to	(informal) annoy (one) so much that he begins to drink alcohol heavily as an escape.	
driv the snakes out of Eire-land	reference to Saint Patrick, the patron of Ireland and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the famous legends about him is that he charmed the snakes of Ireland down to the seashore so that they were driven into the water and drowned.	
drive (someone) off (one's) hinges	cause (someone) to become irrational or hysterical; madden (someone). A variation of the phrase drive (someone) up the wall.	
drive (something) home	cause (something) to be fully understood.	
drive it home	cause (something) to be fully understood.	
drives home	causes (something) to be fully understood.	
Drool, Jules	a made-up name for a painter.	
druidism	the religion or rites of the Druids, members of a priesthood in ancient Gaul (region in western Europe consisting of what is now mainly France and Belgium), Britain and Ireland who are said to have studied nature and the physical world, predicted the future, engaged in priestly sacrifices under oak trees and acted as teachers and judges.	
Druids	members of a priesthood in ancient Gaul (region in western Europe consisting of what is now mainly France and Belgium), Britain and Ireland who are said to have studied nature and the physical world, predicted the future, engaged in priestly sacrifices under oak trees and acted as teachers and judges.	
drunker than a skunk	(slang) very drunk.	
DTs	abbreviation for delirium tremens: a violent delirium (temporary state of extreme mental excitement, marked by restlessness, confused speech and hallucinations) resulting chiefly from excessive drinking of alcoholic liquor and characterized by sweating, trembling, anxiety and frightening hallucinations. Delirium tremens comes from Latin, and means literally "trembling delirium."	
duck	(slang) move (in or out) quickly.	
duck, like a ehot	with great rapidity or without hesitation; most willingly.	
ducks and drakes with, play	throw away idly or carelessly; handle or use recklessly. From the game of ducks and drakes, which consists of tossing flat stones, shells, etc., along the surface of water so they bounce several times before sinking	
duded up	(slang) dressed up, with showy ornamentation added.	
Duford, Harold	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
dumb bunny	(slang) a naive and unwary person.	
dumb-ox	like a dumb ox, a stupid, sluggish person, especially a hulking one.	
Dunkirk	a city on the northern coast of France which was nearly bombed out of existence during World War II. In 1940 it was the scene of the evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied troops, cut off from retreat on land by the Germans. A fleet of almost 1,200 British and French ships carried the Allied soldiers from Dunkirk to the coast of England. One of the most heroic and most memorable actions in naval history, it lasted from May 26 until June 4.	
Dunkirk	a city on the northern coast of France which was nearly bombed out of existence during World War II. In 1940 it was the scene of the evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied troops, cut off from retreat on land by the Germans. A fleet of almost 1,200 British and French ships carried the Allied soldiers from Dunkirk to the coast of England. One of the most heroic and most memorable actions in naval history, it lasted from May 26 until June 4.	
Dunlap	short for Dunlap Rubber Company, an American manufacturer of rubber products, such as automobile tires.	
Durham University	reference to Duke University, a university located in Durham, North Carolina, established in 1838.	
dust (something) off	(informal) dismiss (something) as unimportant or inconsequential; make light of (something)	
dusted (something) off	(informal) dismissed (something) as unimportant or inconsequential; made light of (something).	
dusted (something) off	(informal) dismissed (something) as unimportant or inconsequential; made light of (something).	
Dutch	the brand name for a type of cleanser used in scouring pots, sinks, etc. It is made by Greyhound-Dial Corporation of Phoenix, Arizona.	
Dutch, High	the Dutch language as spoken in the Netherlands.	
Dutch, Low	a dialect of Dutch spoken in America by immigrants from the Netherlands.	
Dutton's	a textbook on navigation and nautical astronomy by Captain Benjamin Dutton (1883-1937), prepared for the instruction of midshipmen (student officers) at the US Naval Academy. First published in 1926.	
Dymaxion geometry	a mathematical system devised by Buckminster Fuller. Dymaxion means "yielding maximum performance from available technology." The system is based on forces balanced against each other and on the way that certain figures fit together to make forms. It is used in architecture and philosophy.
See also Buckminster Fuller in this glossary.	
'e	(dialect) he.	
E = MC² 	a mathematical equation derived by Albert Einstein as part of the general theory of relativity. The equation is energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared (multiplied by itself).
See also Einstein in this glossary. You could have fifty thousand monkeys writing on fifty thousand typewriters for 2 a long time, and sooner or later one of them is going to write E = mc² , see? - Cycles of Action (13 Oct. 64)	
ead	(dialect) head.	
'ead	(dialect) head.	
'eads	(dialect) heads.	
eager beaver	(slang) a person characterized by much industry; a person eager to do work or extra work.	
eake	something which surpasses all others; an unusual or extraordinary thing.	
eapitalistie	practieing capitalism, the economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution, as land, factories, railroads, ete., are privately owned and operated for profit, originally under fully competitive conditions.	
'ear	(dialect) hear.	
ear, on its	in a state of excitement, upheaval, etc.	
ear, put a bug in (someone’s)	(dialect) headache.	
earisipulus	a made-up name for a disease.	
Earp, Wyatt	(1848-1929) a law officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as a United States marshal in Dodge City, Kansas and took part in a famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881.	
ears should go up, (one's)	(informal) (one) should come to interested attention; (one) should begin to listen closely. A variation of prick up (one's) ears.	
ears, flap (one's)	(colloquial) listen attentively.	
ears, up to (one's)	(slang) to a very great extent; totally. A variation of up to (one's) eyeballs.	
East Germany	a former nation in north central Europe, officially known as the German Democratic Republic. It was formed out of land in the zone of Germany occupied by the Soviet Union after World War II.	
East Indies	the islands of the Malay Archipelago. The Dutch possessions in this group were called the Netherlands Indies and are now known as the Republic of Indonesia.	
Eastbourne	a resort town in southern England, on the English Channel.	
Eastman	reference to Eastman Kodak Company, a large manufacturer of photographic equipment, film and supplies, founded by George Eastman (1854-1932), American inventor and industrialist. 	
easy street, on	(slang) in a condition of solvency, ease and tranquility.	
E-boat	short for enemy boat, a British name for a small, speedy type of surface torpedo boat. The term was used especially in World War II to refer to enemy (German) boats of this kind.	
ecclesiasticism	devotion, especially excessive devotion, to the principles or interests of the church.	
Eddy, Mary Baker	a reference to the book Science and Health, published in 1875 by Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), which asserted that matter was an illusion and that "Spirit" (i.e., God) was everything. "The starting-point of divine Science," Mrs. Eddy states, "is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind." Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science, a church and religious system emphasizing healing through spiritual means as an important element of Christianity. Science and Health is the only authorized Christian Science textbook
See also Christian Science in this glossary	
Edgar	a Saint Hill staff member at the time of these lectures.	
edge, go off the deep	get into difficulty or trouble. A variation of the expression in deep water.	
Edinburgh	the capital of Scotland, located in the southeastern part of the country.	
Edison	Thomas Edison (1847-1931), American inventor. Among his inventions, of which he patented over a thousand, are the phonograph, the microphone and the light bulb.	
Edmonds, Jenny	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of the lecture.	
Edwardian	of or pertaining to the dead-end (characteristic of the slums or slum life) kids of mid-20th century London, who took their name from the costume characteristic of the Edwardian period, that was, with variations, their uniform: tightly buttoned, knee-length coat with soft, black-velvet collar; double-breasted, pearl-gray waistcoat (vest); and tight trousers. 
See also Edwardian period in this glossary.	
Edwardian period	a time in twentieth-century British history: the first decade of the century, when Edward VII, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, was king. The Edwardian period was known for elegance and luxury among the rich and powerful in Britain, but also for moral looseness and for a general failure to prepare for some of the challenges of the twentieth century—particularly World War I, which broke out four years after the death of King Edward. [Definition of Edwardians: . . . (characteristic of the Edwardian period) . . .] Edwardians: persons wearing clothes of Edwardian style; Teddy boys. The name comes from the costume (characteristic of the Edwardian period) that is, with variations, their uniform: tightly buttoned, knee-length coat with soft, black-velvet collar; double-breasted, pearl-gray waistcoat (vest); and tight trousers.
See also Edwardian period and Teddy boy in this glossary.	
E-flat	(music) a musical scale having E-flat (the note a half step below E) as the keynote (the lowest, basic note or tone of a musical scale).	
eggs, on	very cautiously.	
Egypt	an ancient empire, west of Israel, that was centered on the Nile River. Egypt exists today as a country in northeastern Africa.	
Egyptian	a native of Egypt, an ancient empire, west of Israel, that was centered on the Nile River. Egypt exists today as a country in northeastern Africa.	
eighteen ways from the middle	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
Einstein	Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist, US citizen from 1940: formulated the theory of relativity; awarded 1921 Nobel prize for physics.  Although complete understanding of his theory of relativity requires a knowledge of the most exotic branches of mathematics, these are some of its basic points: (1) Time is not an absolute.  The faster a body moves, the slower its clock runs.  A minute on Earth may pass in fifty-nine seconds or sixty-one seconds on planets traveling at speeds different from that of Earth. (2) The speed of light remains constant in all frames of reference.  Whether you are moving toward a light source or away from it, the light will still reach you at the same speed (186,000 miles per second). (3) All motion is relative.  Therefore, there can be no such thing as absolute rest. (4) Moving bodies acquire mass as they increase in speed.  The faster a body travels, the heavier it becomes.  As a body approaches the speed of light, it adds mass very rapidly.  If it were to reach the speed of light, its mass would become infinite. If this were true it could be seen that no body could ever travel faster than the speed of light.  The additional weight acquired by an accelerating body would make penetration of the light barrier impossible. (5) Mass and energy are mutually convertible.
See also theory of relativity in this glossary.	
Einsteins	persons similar to Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist, US citizen from 1940: formulated the theory of relativity; awarded 1921 Nobel prize for physics.	
Eisenhower	Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), US general and 34th president of the United States (1953-1961): commander of Allied forces in Europe (1943-1945; 1951-1952). He was responsible for the execution of the Normandy Campaign in France (June-August 1944).
See also Normandy landing in this glossary.	
Eisenhower	Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), US general and 34th president of the United States (1953-1961): commander of Allied forces in Europe (1943-1945; 1951-1952).  In France on 31 January 1945, Private Eddie Slovik was shot by a firing squad for desertion.  He was the first American to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.	
Ektachrome	a 16-millimeter color film made by Eastman Kodak.
See also Eastman in this glossary.	
El Alamein	a city in northern Egypt located on the Mediterranean Sea which was the site of a major battle during World War II between Allied and German troops. The Allies won the battle.	
Eleanor	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
Eleanor hates war, James hates war	a derisive reference to a statement made by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (thirty-second president of the US from 1933 to 1945) in a speech he made in 1936:
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounds. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward 24 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." 
On December 7, 1941, Congress, at the request of President Roosevelt, declared war on Japan entering the United States into World War II. Eleanor was the wife of Franklin Roosevelt, and James was his father.	
electric shock	the psychiatric practice of delivering an electric shock to the head of a patient in a supposed effort to treat mental illness.  There is no therapeutic reason for shocking anyone and there are no authentic cases on record of anyone having been cured of anything by shock.  The reverse is true.  Electric shock causes often irreparable damage to the person in the form of brain damage and impaired mental ability.	
electric shock machine	a mechanism used in the psychiatric practice of delivering an electric shock to the head of a patient in a supposed effort to treat mental illness. There is no therapeutic reason for shocking anyone and there are no authentic cases on record of anyone having been cured of anything by shock. The reverse is true. Electric shock causes often irreparable damage to the person in the form of brain damage and impaired mental ability.	
electric shocking	engaging in the psychiatric practice of delivering an electric shock to the head of a patient in a supposed effort to treat mental illness. There is no therapeutic reason for shocking anyone and there are no authentic cases on record of anyone having been cured of anything by shock. The reverse is true. Electric shock causes often irreparable damage to the person in the form of brain damage and impaired mental ability.	
electrical-shock	pertaining to the psychiatric practice of delivering an electric shock to the head of a patient in a supposed effort to treat mental illness. There is no therapeutic reason for shocking anyone and there are no authentic cases on record of anyone having been cured of anything by shock. The reverse is true. Electric shock often causes irreparable damage to the person in the form of brain damage and impaired mental ability.	
electrosis	a coined word from electro-, electric and -osis, condition; process.	
Elizabeth	a city in northeastern New Jersey.  Residential suburb of New York City and location of the first Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, 1950-1951.	
Elizabeth Foundation	the first Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, located in Elizabeth, a city in northeastern New Jersey in the United States.	
Elizabeth, New Jersey	a city in northeastern New Jersey. Residential suburb of New York City and location of the first Dianetics Research Foundation, 1950-1951.	
Elizabethan times	the forty-five years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), a time of notable triumphs in literature (William Shakespeare rose to prominence while Elizabeth was queen) and war (the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a fleet of over a hundred ships sent by King Philip II of Spain to conquer England in,1588).	
Elliot	Jim Elliot, a person who was involved with LRH in the early development of the E-Meter.	
Elmhurst	a residential city seventeen miles west of Chicago.	
'elp	(dialect) help.	
embalming juice	a preserving fluid injected into the blood vessels of a corpse.	
embayed	enclosed, as if in a bay.	
Emerson	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803‑1882), one of America's most influential authors and thinkers, also a minister and noted lecturer.	
Empire Laundry	a name for a laundry.	
Empire State Building	a skyscraper completed in 1931 in New York City. It was for many years the tallest building in the world. It is 1,250 feet high and has 102 stories. It acquires its name from the nickname for New York State, "the Empire State."	
Empress Eugenie hat	a small hat, popular in the early 1930s, with the brim rolled back on either side, worn tilted sideways and to the front and often trimmed with one long ostrich plume in the side roll. The hat was named for Empress Eugenie (1826-1920) who was the wife of Louis Napoleon and empress of France (1853-1871).	
en passant	(French) in passing; by the way.	
Encyclopaedia Britannica	a comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects, arranged alphabetically. It is the oldest continually published reference work in the English language (1st edition printed 1771).	
end-all	the central and all-important part.  A Variation of be-all and end-all.	
Engelsisms	reference to the systems or beliefs of Friedrich Engel (18201895), a German socialist of the nineteenth century who was a lifelong associate of Karl Marx and collaborated with him in spreading communism.	
ENIAC	the first large-scale electronic digital computer (uses numbers to perform calculations) ever built. The first one was completed in 1946. ENIAC is derived from the initial letters of the full name of this computer: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.	
ensealed	closed or fastened with a seal. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
Epsom Downs	a racetrack in southeastern England, near London. That puts you a hurdle that Epsom Downs steeplechasers up here would balk at.—Rudiments (24 Aug. 61) 	
Ercatchers	a made‑up word.	
'ere	(dialect) here.	
Erector Set	(trademark) a set of metal pieces, nuts, bolts, etc., and tools, specially designed for constructing small models of buildings, machines or other engineering apparatus.	
erg	(physics) a unit of work or energy.
a made-up name for a person: a humorous reference to the practice of naming scientific discoveries after real people.	
ergs	(physics) units of work or energy.	
erican Psychologieal Assoeiation	an association of psychologists and educators whose purpose is to advance psychology as a practiee.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
erk	(British slang) a worthless, stupid person; jerk.	
Ernst, Paul	(1866-1933) German writer, dramatist and critic. Author of translations of old Italian tales, original short stories and narrative poems.	
Erxes	a made-up name for a planet.	
Eskimo	pertaining to a people living in the arctic regions of North America and northeastern Asia. Eskimos are short and stocky, and have broad, flat faces, yellowish skin and black hair.	
espanoles	(Spanish) natives or inhabitants of Spain.	
Esquire	a popular US periodical for men.	
Essex-on-Kent	a made-up name of a place, using the names of two neighboring counties in southeast England, Essex and Kent, and the British way of naming towns. Example: Clacton-on-Sea, a town by the sea in southeast England.	
ESSO	the trademark for "Standard Oil of Ohio" at the time of the lecture.	
et	(US colloquial) eaten.	
ether	a drug used to produce anesthesia, as before surgery.	
Ethiopian	a native of Ethiopia, a republic in east Africa. Ethiopians are dark-skinned people and thus an Ethiopian would be difficult to see in the dark.	
Ethiopian war	the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 by Mussolini's (Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945, founder and leader of the Fascist Party and premier of Italy 1922-1943) Italy wherein the Ethiopian feudal chiefs continued violent resistance while the Italians massacred hundreds of nobles, clergy and commoners in an effort to repress Ethiopia by terror.	
ETU	abbreviation for the Electrical Trade Union, the labor union of the electrical trade in England.	
E-type	reference to the Jaguar XKE, a model of sports car first produced in 1960 by Jaguar Limited, a British car manufacturer based in Coventry, England.	
Eudipitus Lipupsis		
even, get	(slang) take revenge.	
Everest	Mount Everest, a mountain in south Asia, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalaya Mountains; highest mountain in the world.	
Excalibur	an unpublished work written by L. Ron Hubbard in the late 1930s. It was a text on the physiological aspects and the philosophical postulates of problems connected with life and human behavior. Most of it has been released in HCOBs, PLs and books.	
Exnoo	a made-up name for a planet.	
Explorers Club	a private club based in New York City and founded in 1904 with the main object of promoting the science of exploration and dedicated to the search for new knowledge of the Earth and outer space.	
eye, in a pig's	(slang) absolutely not; never.	
eye, stuck (one) in the	Variation of caught (one's) eye, attracted (one's) attention.	
eyelash, at the drop of an	(informal) with very little cause or urging. A variation of the expression at the drop of a hat.	
eyes, let (someone) have it right in the	(informal) make a strong impression on (someone); surprise (someone) greatly.  A Variation of hit (someone) between the eyes.	
F	abbreviation for Form.	
F-24-Rs	a made-up electronic word.	
F4R	a made-up electronic term.	
faculty psychology	an early school of psychology that explained the various mental processes by reference to corresponding "faculties" (senses or perceptions), such as knowing, feeling, judgment, duty, etc. As an example, the process of thinking was explained by reference to the faculty of "understanding" or of "reason."	
Fairfax	a county in Virginia, United States.	
fait accompli	(French) an accomplished fact; a thing already done.	
fakirism	the ascetic (having to do with unusual self-denial and devotion or severe discipline of self for religious reasons) practices of Hindu fakirs (those who sometimes perform extraordinary feats, such as lying upon sharp knives or nails).	
fall flat on (one's) fate	(informal) fail utterly.	
fall from grace	lose favor, especially because of a bad or foolish action.	
fall into (one's) lap	come within (one's) reach, or into the power of (one).	
fallen on their heads	(colloquial) failed to be successful.	
falling off of the wagon	ceasing to be good. A variation of the phrase off the wagon, meaning drinking liquor again after having stopped for a while.	
falling off the marijuana wagon	(slang) smoking marijuana after previously stopping. A variation of the phrase fall off the wagon, to begin drinking liquor again after a period of abstinence.	
falling on their heads	(colloquial) failing to be successful.	
family way, in a	(colloquial) pregnant.	
fan jobs	(slang) propeller-driven aircraft.	
fan‑job	(slang) propeller‑driven.	
Fanny Hill	an elegant, flowery work of pornography describing the activities of a London prostitute, written by John Cleland (1709-1789).	
Farber, Evans	a Scientologist in the 1950s.	
faschinating	a humorous pronunciation of fascinating	
fast-talk	persuasively talk.	
Father, Son and the Holy Ghost	the doctrine of Christianity that there is one God and three divine persons in the one God: the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Ghost (also called Holy Spirit).	
FBI	abbreviation for Federal Bureau of Investigation, a US government agency established to investigate violations of federal laws and safeguard national security.	
FCDC	abbreviation for Founding Church of Scientology, Washington, DC (District of Columbia).	
FCTU Communist Dedicated Antipeople's Local Union Number 49	a made-up name for a trade union.	
FDA	abbreviation for Food and Drug Administration, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services whose stated purpose is to protect the public against impure and unsafe foods, drugs and cosmetics
See Food and Drug Administration in this glossary.	
FDR	initials of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882-1945) thirty-second president of the US from 1933 to 1945.  During World War II (1939-1945), Roosevelt began the research project which produced the atomic bomb, a weapon that after his death brought a quick but highly controversial end to the war.  He died a few weeks before Germany surrendered and before the end of the war with Japan.	
Fear	a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, first published in July 1940 in Unknown magazine. It is a terrifying tale of a man who loses four hours of his life and begins to go mad as he tries to remember what happened.	
Federal	(US history) a supporter or soldier of the central government of the United States during the American Civil War.	
Federal Boys Institute	a coined word from FDA and -osis, an abnormal or diseased condition.
See also FDA in this glossary.	
Federal Boys Institute	a humorous alteration of Federal Bureau of Investigation, a branch of the US Department of Justice, responsible for investigating violations of federal law	
Federal Church, Incorporated	a made-up name.	
Federal Drug Addicts	a humorous reference to the Food and Drug Administration.
See Food and Drug Administration in this glossary.	
fella	(slang) fellow.	
fellas	(slang) fellows.	
feller	(informal) fellow.	
Fernando Valley	the San Fernando Valley, in southern California, northwest of central Los Angeles and partly included in the city of Los Angeles. It is a farming area and has many suburban residential communities.	
Ferrari	a type of racing sports car.  It was first manufactured by Enzo Ferrari in 1947.	
fess up	(informal shortening of "confess") admit or concede, especially freely.	
fhddles around	muddles around; acts confused.	
fiddled	(British informal) falsified.	
Field	Oliver Field, the head of the American Medical Association’s Department of Investigations in the 1960s. From this position he flooded falsehoods about Scientology into the press, magazines, radio and TV.	
Fifth Avenue	a fashionable street in central New York City, in the state of New York, United States.	
Fill	(photography) short for fill light: a light used to eliminate or soften shadows caused by the main source of illumination.	
Fillmore, President	Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), thirteenth president of the United States (1850-1853).	
FiMh Amphibious Force	a part of the United States Navy which operated in the Pacific between 1943 and the end of World War II. It took part in all major battles in the Pacific. Amphibious means having to do with the joint undertakings of sea-fighting and land-fighting forces acting against enemy-held islands, ports or coastal areas.	
fine‑feathered	thorough, complete.	
fine-toothed dictionary, went over (something) with a	a Variation of the phrase went through (something) with a fine-toothed comb, examined (something) very thoroughly.	
fine-toothed Ron, gone through (something) with a	a humorous variation of the phrase gone through (something) with a fine-toothed comb, examined (something) very thoroughly.	
fingers exactly on (something), had one's	(informal) had (something) expressed or named exactly.	
fire drill	(informal) a confused mess. A fire drill is a practice drill for a company of firefighters, the crew of a ship, etc., to train them in their duties in case of a fire. Fire drill on most ships is usually so bad it is a slang term for a confused mess.	
fire drilled	(slang) in a confused mess. A fire drill is a practice drill for a company of firefighters, the crew of a ship, etc., to train them in their duties in case of a fire. Fire drill on most ships is usually so bad it is a slang term for a confused mess.	
fire, playing with	meddling with something dangerous.	
fireball	(slang) an ambitious, efficient and fast worker; a very active person.	
firehold	a thing that holds or contains fire.  An allusion to hell or any place suggesting hell.	
Firestone	Harvey Samuel Firestone (1868-1938), American industrialist; organised Firestone Tire & Rubber Company (1900), which became a leader of the rubber industry and one of the largest tire manufacturers in the United States.	
first base, get to	(informal) succeed in the initial phase of a plan or undertaking.  The phrase comes from the sport of baseball, where a base is one of four stations, laid out in the form of a diamond, which must be touched by a player after hitting the ball.  First base is the first of these stations the player must reach.	
first cousin	anything or anyone closely related to or resembling another.	
First National Bank	a common name for a bank in the United States.	
First World War	the war (1914-1918) between the Allies (Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, Italy, Japan, etc.) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc.)	
fish, price of	the issue at hand. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as the price of eggs, the price of tea in China, etc.)	
Fishbein, Morris	(1889-1976), editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (1924-1949) and mouthpiece for vested interests in the field of medicine.	
fish-end tails	humorous reference to a swallow-tailed coat, a man's coat for formal wear with an open front and two long, tapering tails.	
fishes out	(figurative) gets information by careful inquiry or subtle methods.	
five pound notes	pieces of paper currency equal to 5 pounds in the United Kingdom.	
five-card stud	a card game with wagering where each player is dealt two cards—one, face down and the other, face up. The player with the highest card showing opens the betting. Then a second round of cards is dealt face up, and the player showing the highest combination opens the betting. Play continues in this manner, with betting after each round until each player has five cards (four face up and one face down, known only to him). The best five-card hand wins.	
fiver	(slang) a five-dollar bill.	
Flanders	a region in northwestern Europe on the North Sea which in general is flat and low. There was continuous fighting in the area during World War I (1914-1918) in which parts of it were devastated.	
flank speed	the maximum possible speed of a ship.	
flat broke	(slang) entirely without funds: completely and utterly broke.	
Fleet Street	an old street in central London, where several newspaper and printing offices are located. It is now synonymous with journalism and the newspaper world.	
Flemish school	an art school pioneered in the 1300s by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The colors were very finely graded and the pictures had a smooth glossy surface. The Flemish artists paid careful attention to effects of light and shade, with subtle variations to show how light falls from a single source upon the objects of the room.	
flickety-flock	a coined term from flick, a light, quick stroke, jerk, or snap.	
flip (one's) wig	(slang) lose (one's) self-control; go berserk.	
flipperoo	a coined word from flip (a somersault, especially one performed in the air), and -eroo (a humorous slang suffix added to nouns). Used figuratively to mean a complete turnaround (as if one had done a flip).	
flit	a made-up name for a medical instrument.	
flobbling	moving heavily or clumsily, with a dull, heavy sound. A variant of the word flop.	
flogwheels	a made-up word coined from flog, to beat with a stick, whip, etc., and wheels.	
floob	a coined word combining flub (a mistake or blunder) and boob (a stupid or foolish person).	
florins	any of various European or South African silver or gold coins.	
flounder, deader than a	(slang) very dead, completely and absolutely nonresponsive. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as deader than a doornail, deader than a herring, etc.)	
flowing around with	digging into and upsetting	
flubber-jubber	a made-up term coined from flub, a mistake or blonder.	
flumph	a made-up word for a date.	
flushes, hot	sensations of waves of heat passing over the body, often experienced by women during menopause.	
fly by the seat of (one's) pants	(slang) of or having to do with proceeding or working by instinct and improvisation, without formal guides or instructive experience.	
fly cops	(from middle 1800s British) detectives; plainclothes police officers. Probably from the slang word fly "clever; shrewd," because of the presumed intelligence of detectives.	
fly, on the	(slang) hastily in passing; without preparation or forethought.	
flying into the face of	acting in defiance of (authority, custom, etc.). 	
flying right	(slang) being honest and useful; doing the ethically or socially proper thing; living or acting according to ethical standards.	
fly-shoes	a made-up term for shoes which would work like the pads on the bottom of a fly's feet.  When the fly walks on a smooth place the pads flatten out against the surface so closely that they hold on.  Due to this a fly can even walk upside down on a ceiling without falling.	
fog, in a	(colloquial) dazed; confused; baffled; perplexed.	
folds up	ceases to function.	
Food and Drug Administration	a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services whose stated purpose is to protect the public against impure and unsafe foods, drugs and cosmetics.	
Food and Drug Nonsense	a humorous alteration of Food and Drug Administration.
See also Food and Drug Administration in this glossary.	
foofaraw	(slang) stir or fuss over something trivial.	
Fooler	something or someone that tricks; deceiver.	
fooling around	(colloquial) spending one's time aimlessly	
Foolish Drug Administration	humorous reference to the Food and Drug Administration in the US.
See also FDA in this glossary.	
foot in the door, get (one's)	(colloquial) gain (one's) entrance into an organization, group, activity, etc., especially one into which such entrance is difficult to obtain. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
foot, gotten off on the wrong	(colloquial) made a bad start; began with a mistake.	
football pool	the combined wagers of bettors on a football game that may be won or from which winnings are taken.	
foot-pounds	units of energy. One foot-pound is equal to the amount of energy required to raise a weight of one pound a distance of one foot.	
for ever and aye	for ever; to all eternity.	
Force 8	pertaining to a measurement for the strength of the wind on the Beaufort scale (a scale of wind force ranging from 0, calm, to 12, hurricane).	
Ford	a car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company, one of the largest automobile companies in the world.
the name of an inexpensive, mass-produced car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford (1863-1947), American industrialist, pioneer automobile manufacturer, organizer and president of the Ford Motor Company, one of the largest automobile companies in the world.
	
Ford Foundation	a large private trust which was established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford. Its original aim supposedly was to found a scientific study of man.	
Ford Motor Company	a US automobile manufacturer; one of the largest automobile companies in the world.	
Ford, Edsel	(1893-1943) president of Ford Motor co. until his death in 1943. In 1958, during the presidency of his son, Henry Ford II, the Ford Motor co. put a car on the market named after Edsel Ford. The "Edsel" was one of the biggest flops in the automotive industry, resulting in a loss of $250 million in two years for the Ford Motor co. Reference here to Edsel Ford is in regards to Henry Ford II under whom the "Edsel" was such a failure.
See also Ford Motor Company in this glossary.	
Fordham	a town in southeastern England.	
Fordson	a made-up name for a tractor.	
forefoot	the front end of the keel (the bottom-most part of a ship) where it joins the stem (the foremost member of the ship's framework).	
forever and aye	for ever; to all eternity.	
form 6892B‑hup	a made‑up name for a form.	
Formosa	former Portuguese name of Taiwan, an island in the Pacific Ocean near the mainland of southern China. The island was settled by the Portuguese in the 16th century. Japan had control of the island from 1895 until 1945. In 1949, communists took over the government of mainland China, and the nationalists, who had been in control of China, moved their seat of government to Taiwan and became known as the Republic of China. The United States supported and aided this government.	
fort, hold the	maintain the existing state of affairs; defend one's position against attack or criticism.	
fort, holding the	(colloquial) keeping things in operation; remaining on duty, etc.	
forte main	strength or force. In French, forte means "strong" and main means "hand."	
forty-niner	a person who went to California in the gold rush of 1849.	
Foster, Stephen	(1826-1864) an American songwriter. He wrote the words and music to some of the country's perennially favorite songs including "My Old Kentucky Home," "Oh! Susanna," "The Old Folks at Home," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Beautiful Dreamer."	
foul up	(slang) delay	
Foundations	short for Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundations, the first organizations of Dianetics. The original Foundations were located in Elizabeth, New Jersey and later in Wichita, Kansas.	
four hundred, the	the inner circle of New York society, the 61ite. The term originated in 1892 when only 400 guests were invited to a ball given by Mrs. William Astor since her ballroom had space for only that number.
See also Astor, Mrs. William in this glossary.	
four-striper	(slang) a naval captain, wearing four stripes as insignia.	
Fourth London	short for Fourth London Advanced Clinical Course given by LRH from 3 October to 5 November 1955.	
Fourth of July	a legal holiday in the US; the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It is celebrated with fireworks. Also called Independence Day.	
Fowler and Allen	persons who ran a British instruments firm, known as Instrumentations, that was involved in making E-Meters.	
fox and the grapes	one of Aeso 's Fables. A fox tries many times to pluck p some grapes that dangle invitingly over his head, but he cannot reach them. As he slinks away in disgust, he says, "Those grapes are probably sour anyway." The moral of the story is: "Every man tries to convince himself that the thing he cannot have is of no value."
See also Aesop in this glossary.	
fox who loses his tail	reference to a fable in which a fox who lost his tail in a trap talks about the virtues of being tailless and suggests that all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. The story comes from Aesop's Fables, by Greek writer Aesop (620?-560 B.C.), which contains stories largely concerned with talking animals illustrating human vices, follies and virtues.	
frame of mind	way of thinking or feeling; disposition; mood.	
frame of reference	a structure of concepts, values, customs, views, etc., by means of which an individual or group perceives or evaluates data, communicates ideas and regulates behavior.	
Francis-Barnett	the brand name of a line of British motorcycles manufactured between 1919 and 1964.	
Franco-Berlin Wall unity	a reference to the Franco-German Treaty on Mutual Consultation and Cooperation, signed by France and West Germany on 22 January 1963. It provided for cooperation in foreign affairs, defense, education and information through periodic meetings of ministers and other government officials. The ”Berlin Wall” refers to the fortified barrier of concrete and wire erected in the city of Berlin, Germany in 1961 which divided the city into a communist section and a noncommunist section (just as the country was similarly divided between communist East and noncommunist West) to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West. The wall was finally torn down in 1990 and free passage between the two sections of the city was allowed once again.	
Frankie the Limper	humorous reference to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-second president of the United States (1933-1945). In the summer of 1921 he was stricken with infantile paralysis, which left him paralyzed from the waist down. With the aid of treatments, he was finally able to walk with the support of steel braces strapped from his hips to his feet.	
Franklin, Ben	Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), patriot, diplomat, author, printer, scientist and inventor of the eighteenth century.	
Franklin, Benjamin	(1706-1790) famous American statesman, scientist and philosopher. Franklin was the deputy postmaster general of the American colonies from 1753-1774. Although the Saturday Evening Post has Benjamin Franklin on its logo, the only connection of this magazine and Benjamin Franklin is that it was begun in the building and with some of the equipment of the defunct Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper which was edited by Franklin 1729-1748.	
Frazer's Golden Bough	a comprehensive work on comparative religion and mythology by Sir James George Frazer (1854‑1941), Scottish scholar and anthropologist. Its opening passages describe an ancient Italian folk custom regarding the King of the Wood: Near Lake Nemi (a lake near Rome) in Italy was a sacred grove of the goddess Diana. In it was a special golden tree. To become a priest of Diana and King of the Wood one had to succeed in pulling down a bough of this tree and thus earn the right to duel to the death with the current King of the Wood. If he won he would then assume the position until another, stronger aspirant came along and succeeded in killing him, becoming in his turn the King of the Wood. Frazer's initial intent was to trace the source of this legend. Drawing from similar traditions and rituals of other peoples, his work expanded and tied together (sometimes incorrectly) many myths and legends from around the world.	
freakeries	a coined word meaning sudden capricious turns of mind; whim.	
Fred	a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course Instructor at the time of this lecture.	
freewheeling	(slang) independence of action and initiative. From the feature of certain 1930s cars permitting them to coast freely without being slowed by the engine.	
French Guyana	a French overseas department (administrative district) in northeast South America on the Atlantic Ocean.	
French Revolution	the revolution that began in France in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the French royal family and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's seizure of power in 1799.	
French, excuse (my)	(informal) forgive (me) for using offensive language. Often used humorously.	
fresh as a daisy	(informal) very fresh.	
Freud	Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian physician and neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis, a system of mental therapy developed in 1894. It depended upon the following practices for its effects: The patient was made to talk about and recall his childhood for years while the practitioner brought about a transfer of the patient's personality to his own and searched for hidden sexual incidents believed by Freud to be the only cause of aberration. The practitioner read sexual significances into all statements and evaluated them for the patient along sexual lines. Each of these points later proved to be based upon false premises and incomplete research, accounting for their lack of result and the subsequent failure of the subject and its offshoots.
See also psychoanalysis in this glossary.	
Freud, Papa	a humorous reference to Sigmund Freud.
See also Freud in this glossary.	
Freud, Sigmund	(1856-1939), Austrian physician and neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. A system of mental therapy developed in 1894 which depended upon the following practices for its effects: The patient was made to talk about and recall his childhood for years while the practitioner brought about a transfer of the patient's personality to his own and searched for hidden sexual incidents believed by Freud to be the only cause of aberration. The practitioner read sexual significances into all statements and evaluated them for the patient along sexual lines. Each of these points later proved to be based upon false premises and incomplete research, accounting for their lack of result and the subsequent failure of the subject and its offshoots.	
Freudian	of or having to do with Sigmund Freud.
See also Freud in this glossary.	
Freudian analysis	also called psychoanalysis. A system of mental therapy developed in 1894 by Sigmund Freud
See psychoanalyst in this glossary.	
Freudian analyst	one who practices psychoanalysis.
See Freud and psychoanalysis in this glossary.	
Freudian dream analysis	(psychoanalysis) a technique in which the practitioner assumes that dreams have psychological meaning and attempts to arrive at an interpretation of them for the patient.	
Freudian subconscious	(psychoanalysis) the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc., of which the individual is not conscious but which influence his emotions and behavior. In actuality, the "unconscious" is the sum of all a man's bad experiences and nothing more mysterious than that. In Dianetics and Scientology it is called the reactive mind.	
Freudians	followers of Sigmund Freud.
See also Freud in this glossary.
persons practicing the system of mental therapy developed by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian physician and the founder of psychoanalysis.
See also psychoanalyst in this glossary.	
freund	(German) friend.	
from A to izzard	completely, thoroughly, all the way. Izzard is a dialectic form of the letter Z.	
from the word go	(slang) from the very beginning .
(colloquial) from the start.	
Fromberg	a town in south central Montana, US.	
front and center	a command to present oneself at once. From the position in front of a military formation where a singled-out soldier presents himself or herself.	
front burner, on the	being actively considered. The opposite of on the back burner. From the custom in cooking of placing pots not requiring immediate attention toward the rear of the stove.	
front up to	stand face to face with, meet face to face, look straight at, face, confront.	
frugals	things sparingly supplied or used. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
fruitcake	(slang) crazy or eccentric; nuts.	
fry (someone's) hair	(slang) shock, frighten, horrify or amaze (someone).  A Variation of the phrase curl (someone's) hair.	
fubbles	a coined term from the slang word fubb, meaning "messes up beyond all belief"	
Fuchs	Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988), German physicist.  He played a part in the development of the first atomic bombs and worked at the Harwell Atomic Energy Establishment from 1946 until 1950, when he pleaded guilty to having supplied secret information to the Russians and was sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment.	
fud	(slang) short for fuddy-duddy, a fussy, ineffectual person.	
fugged up	in a fog; in a state of mental dimness and confusion; blurred, bewildered.	
full-dress parade	characterized by exhaustive thoroughness. From the idea of a military unit parading in full-dress uniform.	
Fuller, Buckminster	(1895-1983) American author, builder and designer. He devised a mathematical system called Dymaxion geometry. Dymaxion means "yielding maximum performance from available technology." The system is based on forces balanced against each other and on the way that certain figures fit together to make forms. It is used in architecture and philosophy.
See also Dymaxion geometry in this glossary.	
fumble and punch	(informal) a Variation of the term hunt and peck, a crude method of typewriting done by searching out each individual letter and striking it with an index finger.	
fumble-bum	a made-up term coined from fumble, to handle (a thing) clumsily, and bum, poor in quality.	
fumes	(informal) shows, or gives way to anger, annoyance, etc.	
fun-house	of or pertaining to an amusement park building that is specially constructed and has devices for surprising and amusing the patrons walking through.	
fur flying	things being done quickly. Referring to animals or birds that are fighting and losing pieces of fur or a few feathers.	
fuzz-wuzz	a made-up word.	
G-2s	the personnel of the military intelligence section of the Army or Marine Corps.	
gabutnicks	a made-up name for a currency.	
Gadzooks	an archaic interjection used as a mild oath.	
Galbatty	humorous reference to Galbally, a member of Victoria State Parliament in Melbourne, Australia, who in 1963 instigated an inquiry into Scientology organizations in Victoria. Batty is slang for ”insane” or ”crazy”.	
Galbraith	John Kenneth Galbraith (1908‑ ), American economist, born in Canada. He was the economics adviser to President Kennedy (19171963) and the author of The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. The ‑ Affluent Society describes the economic conditions in the United States after World War 11, and puts forward the theory that governmental taxation and regulation is necessary to preserving the economy in today's society.	
Galen	(ca. A.D. 130-200) Greek physician whose works were for centuries the Standards for anatomy and physiology. Though Galen gave good descriptions of some of the human body's different parts and their functions, his observations and conclusions on the circulation of the blood were far from correct. Even when more correct statements were put forward by other physicians, these were not accepted over Galen's observations for many years, but were' discarded as incorrect.	
Galileo	Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist who proved that objects with different masses fall at the same velocity. He was one of the first persons to use a telescope to examine objects in the sky. Authorities of the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo to renounce his belief in the model of the solar system proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus. Galileo had to assert that the earth stands still, with the sun revolving around it.	
gallbladder	a sac attached to the liver in which excess gall is stored until needed (gall is a bitter, yellowish liquid secreted by the liver to aid digestion).	
galley	a long, low, usually single-decked ship propelled by oars and sails, used especially in ancient and medieval times: the oars were usually manned by chained slaves or convicts.	
galley-west, knock (him)	(informal) knock (someone) into a state of unconsciousness, confusion or disarray.  Possibly from an old sailors' game "building the galleass" (galleass: a war galley) where a new sailor (the victim) would be hit in the face with a mop dipped in a slop bucket knocking him "galleass" (to the deck of the galleass).	
galloping consumption	a made-up name for a disease causing a wasting away of the body (consumption).	
Gallup	George Horace Gallup (1901-1984), American statistician. He founded the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935 at Princeton, New Jersey, and originated there the Gallup Polls, statistical surveys of public reactions to nearly every conceivable issue.	
galumphed	marched on exultingly with irregular bounding movements. The word was invented by Lewis Carroll as part of a poem in the book	
galumphing	marching on exultingly with irregular bounding movements. The word was invented by Lewis Carroll as part of a poem in the book	
Gamages	a large department store in London, England.	
gamaniac	a coined word from maniac, a mentally ill person who behaves in a wild way; a lunatic.	
gambler	(slang) a cheap, flashy person.	
game, at (that) stage of the	at (that) time during an activity; at (that) point.	
gang agley	(Scottish) gone awry or wrong.	
Garand Markets	semiautomatic rifles (those which automatically eject and reload bullets but require a trigger pull for each bullet fired) invented by John Garand (1888-1974). This rifle, M-1, was adopted in 1936 as the official US Army rifle.	
Garbage	humorous reference to Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945), German politician. He was the district leader of the Nazi party in Berlin (1926).	
garden-variety	ordinary; commonplace.	
Gare Nord	a non-Parisian pronunciation of Gare du Nord (Station of the North) one of the four biggest train stations in Paris, France that is the origination point of trains going to regions and countries north of Paris.	
Garland, Judy	(1922-1969) American film actress and singer. The child of vaudeville performers she started on stage at the age of five. Unable to stand the pace of her own success she began seeing a psychiatrist at the age of 21. She was married five times and made a number of suicide attempts, dying in 1969 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills.	
Gautama Siddhartha	a religious philosopher and teacher who lived in India around 563‑483 B.c. and was the founder of the Buddhist religion.
Also called the Buddha.
See also Buddhism in this glossary.	
Gawp	(slang) stare open-mouthed; gawk or gape.	
gawping	(slang) staring open-mouthed; gawking or gaping.	
geared up	adjusted or adapted to a particular system, situation, etc.	
gee‑whiz	an exclamation of approval, surprise, mild disapproval, emphasis, etc. 	
gee-whizzer	(informal) something arousing or characterized by surprise, wonder, or triumphant achievement.	
geez	(informal) an exclamation or mild oath. Now, when the pc gets down along the line, he says, he'll start‑may start telling you, "Geez, you know, this is awful fundamental." ‑R2 and R3: Current Auditing Rundown (21 Feb. 63)	
gegangen	(German) gone	
gen	(British slang) inside information; lowdown.	
gen (someone) in	(British slang) provide (someone) with inside information; give (someone) the lowdown.	
gen, give you the	tell you the news, give you the detailed information.	
gendarmerie	(French) police station.	
general court	short for General court-martial: a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.	
General Grant tank	the British version of the M3 medium tank, a 31 ton tank developed during World War II.	
General Motors	a major American automobile manufacturer.	
General Sherman tank	a World War II US Army tank weighing about 31 tons and carrying a 75-millimeter gun as its main armament.	
Genghis Khan	a Mongolian emperor and general of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia.	
George	a made-up name for a preclear.
(slang) excellent great; superb.  And this is very george indeed.	
George III	(1738-1820) king of England (1760-1820) whose policies provoked the American Revolution (war for American independence from Britain, 1775 to 1781). on July 4th 1776 the American Declaration of Independence was printed and the thirteen colonies that were previously part of England became the United States.	
George Washington Bridge	a large bridge of 3,500 feet built in 1931. It spans the Hudson River in New York City.	
German 1	one of a series of courses teaching German at different levels.	
German graph	a graph which shows one source breaking down into two sources which break down into four sources which break down into eight sources and so on.  It is also called a German schema.	
German schema	a graph which shows one source breaking down into two sources which break down into four sources which break down into eight sources and so on. 	
Geronimo	a cry often yelled by parachutists as they start their jump.  Adopted from the Indian name "Geronimo," an American Apache Indian chief	
Gestetner Limited	a manufacturer and distributor of a variety of duplicating machines and related supplies.	
gets on top of	(colloquial) becomes or is able to control or deal with (a difficulty, one's work, etc.) successfully.	
getteth	a humorous variation of the word "get," adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
Gettysburg	a battle fought on July 1-3, 1863 near the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in which troops of the Confederate States fought a daring battle but were defeated by the Union army. It is considered the turning point of the American Civil War.	
ghost‑shirt	a white shirt worn by the Sioux Indians during the ghostdance, a ritual central to the messianic religion instituted circa 1870 among the Paiute Indians by their prophet Wovoka (1856‑1932). The religion, which prophesied the end of white expansion westward and the return of land to the Indians, spread to most of the western Indians. The ritual was danced for five successive days and was accompanied by hypnotic trances. The Sioux performed the ritual prior to their massacre at Wounded Knee (the last of the major Indian wars in 1890)‑wearing ghost shirts that they thought would protect them from bullets.	
Gib.	short for Gibraltar: British territory on a small peninsula at the southern tip of Spain, including a port and naval base. It consists mostly of a rocky hill (Rock of Gibraltar).	
gibberingly	unintelligibly; without meaning	
gibblings	a made-up word rhyming with dribblings.	
Gibbon, Edward	(1737-1794) English historian who wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a history which has become one of the classical works of historical literature in the English language. The work is divided into three periods and covers a total of thirteen centuries.	
gib-gab	(colloquial) talk or chatter a lot.	
gilding the lily	attempting to improve someone or something that is already attractive, especially in a manner that spoils the object's original worth or appearance.	
gilhoolies	a made-up word.	
gills, green look around (one's)	(informal) a look on (one's) face as though he is going to be sick or vomit.	
Gilpen, Charley	a made-up name for an auditor.	
gimmagahoogits	a made-up word.	
gimme	(colloquial) give me.	
gimping	(slang) limping	
giveth	a humorous variation of the word "give," adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
glare fight	a contest back on the whole track wherein two individuals tried to stare each other down by directing flows of attention units at one another. The winner of the glare fight was the person who got the most attention units out in the least possible time and drove his opponent into apathy.	
glare fights	contests back on the whole track wherein two individuals tried to stare each other down by directing flows of attention units at one another. The winner of the glare fight was the person who got the most attention units out in the least possible time and drove his opponent into apathy.	
Glen Ullin	a town in southwest North Dakota, US.	
glibly	in a readily fluent manner, often thoughtlessly, superficially or insincerely so.	
Glip, Johannes Q.	a made-up name for a preclear.	
gloozle	a made-up word.	
glove, hand in	very intimately associated; closely together.	
gluff-wuff	a made-up word. I don’t care if it's total strangers and the guy says gluff-wuff. - Comments on Clay Table TV Demo (4 Nov. 64)	
Glu‑Klocks	a made‑up name.	
glumpsluks	a made‑up word.	
glunsping	walking in a glum, sullen or sulky manner.	
gluteus maximus	(facetious) the buttocks.	
Glutz, Mamie	a made-up name for a person.	
Glutz, Miss	a made-up name for a person.	
G-men	(slang) short for Government men, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.	
go live	become active; cause the E-Meter to react.	
go out colder than ice	(informal) go completely unconscious.	
go, from the word	(slang) from the very beginning.	
go-arounds	an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
gobbledygookitis	(humorous) a made-up name for a disease.  From gobbledygook and -itis, a suffix meaning inflammatory disease or inflammation of (a specified part or organ).	
God	(colloquial) an expression of disappointment, disbelief, weariness, frustration, annoyance or the like.	
God almighty	(colloquial) an exclamation used to express strong feeling or excitement.	
God help us all	a coined expression for something which would inspire the plea "God help us all!" from its observer.	
God help you	(informal) a phrase expressing a warning, plea, etc.	
God knows	(colloquial) only someone more powerful than man can possibly know or realize (usually used to express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something).	
God out of, the living	completely or thoroughly. A Variation of the common phrase, beat the living daylights out of, meaning "to defeat or thrash thoroughly." This portion of the phrase is often used in similar constructions when referring to handling or doing something completely. And acknowledge the living God out of every answer, see. -Technology and Hidden Standards (2 Mar. 65)	
God, by	(slang) an exclamation of surprise.
(colloquial) a mild exclamation expressing surprise, wonder, puzzlement, pleasure or the like.	
God, good	(colloquial) an expression used to show surprise, disbelief, etc.	
God, honest to	(colloquial) an expression used to emphasize one's sincerity or truthfulness.	
God, in the name of	(colloquial) an expression used to show surprise or annoyance in questions, requests, etc.	
God, my	(colloquial) an expression of surprise, shock or dismay.	
God, thank	(colloquial) an expression used to express one's joy or thankfulness, especially after one has been saved from something unpleasant.	
God-’elp-us	a coined expression for something which would inspire the plea ”God help us!” from its observer. (‘elp is a dialectical form of help.)	
God’s green earth, under	(informal) on earth; in the world.  A Variation of the phrase under the sun.	
God’s sakes, for	an exclamation expressing impatience, annoyance or surprise, especially in questions or requests.	
God‑awful	extremely objectionable or awful.	
God-awfully	(slang) extremely objectionably or awfully.	
goddamn	(informal) an exclamation of any strong feeling, especially of disgust or irritation.	
goddamned	(informal) an exclamation of any strong feeling, especially of disgust or irritation.	
god-darn	(informal) an exclamation of any strong feeling, especially of disgust or irritation.	
Godfrey	(interjection) an expression used to show surprise, anger, etc.	
God-help-us	a coined expression for something which would inspire the plea "God help us!" from its observer.	
Godhelpus, Ermaltrude	a made-up name for a witch that L. Ron Hubbard used to tell his children stories about at the time of the lecture.	
God-knows-what	(colloquial) a coined word meaning something only someone more powerful than man can possibly know or realize (used to express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something). From the expression God knows.	
God's green earth, under	(informal) on earth; in the world. A variation of the phrase under the sun.	
God's sakes	an exclamation expressing impatience, annoyance or surprise, especially in questions or requests.	
God's sakes, for	a mild oath used to express impatient annoyance or surprise, especially in questions or requests.	
goil	(dialect) girl.	
goiter	an enlarged thyroid gland (that gland which secretes a hormone that regulates body growth and development), often visible as a swelling in the front of the neck.	
Gold Star Mothers	members of the American Gold Star Mothers, an organization of women who lost their sons in World Wars I and II.  It received its name from the custom of placing a gold star on a service flag in honor of men killed in war.  The organization was founded in 1928 and maintains national headquarters in Washington, DC.	
Golden Gate Bridge	a long suspension bridge across the Golden Gate, a strait that connects San Francisco Bay (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) with the Pacific Ocean.	
goldfish bowl	(slang) a place or situation where one is exposed; a venue without privacy.  Used in this lecture in reference to the courseroom in which the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course was held.	
goldfish-bowling	the action of observing or watching (something) publicly.	
Goldwater, Barry	(1909- ) American businessman and politician.  Born in Phoenix, Arizona, he was a pilot in World War II and Senator for Arizona from 1953 to 1965, and from 1969 until 1987.  He was selected as the Republican candidate in the 1964 United States presidential election, running against the incumbent, Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), who was a Democrat.  Johnson won the election by a decisive margin.	
golly	(informal) a mild exclamation expressing surprise, wonder, puzzlement, pleasure or the like; euphemistic alteration of	
golly, by	a mild exclamation expressing surprise, wonder, puzzlement, pleasure or the like; euphemistic alteration of by God.	
golly, my	(informal) a mild exclamation expressing surprise, wonder, puzzlement, pleasure or the like; euphemistic alteration of "my God."	
Gomez	Juan Vicente Gomez (1864-1936), Venezuelan dictator. He maintained his power by one of the most bloodthirsty and unscrupulous tyrannies in South American history.	
gone dog	one of various colloquial phrases that start with ”a gone” and denote someone who is hopelessly done for or in a hopeless situation.	
gone skid	declined or became downgraded; met with failure. A variation of the phrase hit the skids.	
gone to hell in a balloon	(slang) deteriorated badly or rapidly; gone downhill. A variation of the phrase go to hell in a handbasket.	
gonna	(colloquial) going to.	
good as gold	very well behaved.	
good God	(colloquial) an expression used to show surprise, disbelief, etc.	
good heavens	(colloquial) an exclamation of surprise or protest.	
good Lord	(colloquial) an expression showing surprise, disbelief, etc.	
good roads, good weather	a calm, friendly or warm state.	
good show, a	(colloquial) an action that deserves approval.	
Goodgief	a made-up name.	
good-oh	(British colloquial) good (used as an expression of approval, agreement or admiration).	
goodygumps	a made-up name.	
goof ball	(slang) silly, foolish or incompetent.	
goof up	(slang) make a mistake or blonder.	
goofball	(slang) silly, foolish or incompetent.	
goofy	(slang) stupid or silly.	
goojagodgets	a made-up word.	
Goosens, Eugene	(1893-1962) English conductor and composer. He conducted many orchestras including the Sydney (Australia) Symphony Orchestra (from 1947).	
goose-step	march in a straight-legged style used by the armies of several nations, but associated particularly with the army of Germany under the Nazis. The term is sometimes used to suggest the unthinking loyalty of followers or soldiers.	
goose-stepping	marching in a straight-legged style used by the armies of several nations, but associated particularly with the army of Germany under the Nazis. The term is sometimes used to suggest the unthinking loyalty of followers or soldiers.	
goosey	(slang) touchy; jumpy; sensitive.	
goovey	a coined word meaning thick or sticky; like goo.	
goozlum 	a made-up word.	
gor	(British slang) an interjection used to express surprise or excitement. A contracted Variation of gorblimey (derived from "God blind me").
(colloquial) a euphemism for god.	
gorblimey!	(British slang) an interjection used to express surprise or excitement.	
Gordian knot	a knot tied by a Greek king (Gordus). According to legend, whoever loosed it would rule all Asia. Alexander the Great, per some accounts, undid the Gordian knot by cutting through it with his sword. By extension, to "cut the Gordian knot" is to solve quickly any very complex problem, or to get to the heart of a problem.	
Gordon's Gin	brand name of one of the world's best known types of gin originating from England.	
Gorgon	in Greek mythology, a frightful maiden with wings and claws, and serpents instead of hair, who had the power to turn to stone all who met her gaze.	
Gosh	extremely objectionable or awful. Gosh is a euphemism for God.	
Gotbucks	a made-up name for people with a lot of money.	
Gotbucks, Mrs.	a made-up name for a person with a lot of money.	
Gotlumbosis, Mrs.	a made-up name for a pc	
gottdammt	(slang) goddamned. A variation of the German word gottverdammt.
See also verdammt in this glossary.	
gowed in	(slang) intoxicated with a narcotic. Gow is from the Chinese word for "opium."	
grace of, by	by virtue of, "thanks to."	
Graham	Philip L. Graham (1915-1963). A publisher from 1946 to 1961. He committed suicide on the 3rd of August 1963.	
grain	(photography) any of the small, separate particles of light-sensitive material emulsified and desposited on photographic film.  The size of the particle limits the possible enlargement of the image and affects the speed of exposure.	
Grand Canyon Suite	an orchestral piece of music by American composer and arranger, Ferde Grofe (1892-1972).	
Grand Central Station	one of the two major train stations in New York City, New York, US.  It takes up one full city block, is multi-storied and has over 600 trains arriving at or leaving it each day.	
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg	a constitutional monarchy in western Europe and one of the smallest countries of the continent.  It is 999 square miles, bordered on the west and north by Belgium, on the east by Germany and on the south by France.	
grandfather clock	the well-established name for the once commonly used pendulum floor clock, having a case as tall as, or taller than, a person. Its name derives from the song 'My Grandfather's Clock!' written in 1878 by Henry Clay Work (1832-1884).	
Grant	Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), commander of the northern armies in the United States Civil War and 18th president of the United States.	
Grant, Cary	(1904-1986) a debonair British-born leading man in many popular movies from 1932 through 1966.	
granted, take for	consider as true, already settled, requiring no special attention, etc., accept as a matter of course.	
grape	short for grapeshot: a cluster of small iron balls formerly fired from a cannon. Named for its resemblance to a cluster of grapes.	
grappled	engaged in a struggle or close encounter (with).	
grass grow underneath your feet, let the	(informal) be idle or lazy; waste time.	
grave, into a	into the condition or state of being dead.	
great day in the morning	(colloquial) a variation of Great Scott, an expression showing surprise, disbelief, etc.	
great guns	(informal) very fast or very hard.	
Great Okay	a coined term denoting the hypothetical proposition of a total acknowledgment which, when given, would cause everything (i.e. the entire physical universe) to vanish. "Great Okay" is a humorous take-off on "great Amen," an expression used in a poem (and later a song with the same lyrics) A Lost Chord, by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864). The poem is about a troubled person who, while idly playing the organ, accidentally strikes a beautiful chord which brings calm and quiets her troubles. "But I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen." She searches again for the chord but can't find it, and thinks that perhaps she will hear it again at death.	
Greek fire	an incendiary (causing or designed to cause fires) material used in medieval warfare, described as able to burn in water.	
green	(slang) money, especially ready cash.	
green earth, under God's	(informal) on Earth; in the world.  A Variation of the phrase under the sun.	
green in the face, until (one) is	(colloquial) endlessly or until (one) is tired out without having gained the desired result.	
green with envy	very jealous.	
Greenwich Village	a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan, inhabited and frequented by artists, writers and students. Formerly a village.	
Gregerty, Butch	a made-up name for a person.	
Gregg	John Robert Gregg (1867-1948), American educator, author and inventor of the Gregg system of shorthand. In 1888 he introduced his shorthand system in England and later brought it to the United States. His system uses symbols to represent sound through the use of short and long strokes, as different from the Pitman system which uses light and shaded strokes.
See also Pitman in this glossary.	
Gresham, James Robert	an official in the Puerto Rican government who helped Ron with his mineralogical expedition done on the island between October 1932 and April 1933. He also held the position of secretary of the Explorers Club in the mid-1930s. 
See also Explorers Club in this glossary.	
Grey diesel engines	a type of ship diesel engine manufactured by an English company, Grey Marine Diesel.	
Greyhound	of the Greyhound Bus Lines: one of the leading intercity bus systems in the US.	
grips with, come to	(informal) begin to deal with or gain an understanding of (a problem, situation, etc.).	
groove, in the	(slang) in good form; working smoothly and well.	
groove, on the	(slang) in good working order; working smoothly and well.	
grooved	settled into a routine of work, habit, etc.	
grooved in	settled into a routine of work, habit, etc.	
groozergruffs	a made-up word.	
ground glass	(optics) glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light. A reflex camera has a ground glass in the bottom of it.	
ground wave	a radio wave that follows the curvature of the earth near the ground.	
ground, ride (something) into the	(colloquial) do (something) too long or too often; overdo. A variation of the phrase run into the ground.	
ground, went to	found (something) after making a search.	
Grundig	a large company in Bayern, Germany, that produces communications equipment (such as TV cameras and radios).	
Guadalcanal	the largest island of the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean. During bitter fighting in World War II, US forces seized the island and its airstrip, Henderson Field, from Japanese troops.	
Guardian, The	the Manchester Guardian, a newspaper in Manchester, England at the time of this lecture.	
gucky	(slang) of or like any thick, viscous, sticky or slimy substance. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
guffball	a made-up word.	
gugfrog	a made-up word.	
guilt complexes	(psychology) largely unconscious ideas and feelings related to the belief that one has committed offenses or that one is to blame for things, strongly influencing the individual's behavior.	
guilt of another hue	a variation of the phrase a horse of another (or a different) color, quite a different matter, question or point.	
Guk	a combination of vitamins (E, B. calcium, C, etc.) taken by a preclear to help in auditing	
Gulch, Mamie	a made-up name for a person.	
Gulf	short for the Gulf of Mexico, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between Mexico and the US state of Florida.	
gullet, punch it down (one's)	(informal) force (one) to do or agree to (something not wanted or liked).	
gumboot	of a type of rubber boot, usually extending to the calf or knee.	
gumps	a made-up word.	
gums, beating my	(slang) talking excessively or ineffectively.	
gun	(slang) an important person.	
gun (something) up	(slang) set (something) at a high speed, accelerate (something), etc.	
Gun Moll	(slang) a female thief or criminal.	
gun up	(slang) set at a high speed, amplification, etc.	
gun, under the	under pressure, as to meet a deadline or solve a problem.
(colloquial) settled into a routine of work, habit, etc.	
gunned-up	(slang) set at a high speed, amplification, etc.	
gunner's mate	an assistant to a gunner (a navy officer in charge of a ship's guns).	
Gurdjieff	George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1872-1949), Russian-born teacher.  He became a follower of Sufism after travels in Asia, which he then practiced and taught in an institute he founded in France.	
guts, hate (one's)	(colloquial) hate (one) very much.	
guts, hated (one's)	(colloquial) hated (one) very much.	
Guy Fawkes	of Guy Fawkes Day: an event taking place in England on the 5th of November each year commemorating the arrest of Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), an English conspirator who, on the 5th of November 1605, took part in a plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament to kill King James I. The day is celebrated with fireworks and bonfires burning his effigy.	
Guy Fawkes celebration	an event taking place in England on the 5th of November each year commemorating the arrest of Guy Fawkes (15701606), an English conspirator who, on the 5th of November 1605, took part in a plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament to kill King James I. The day is celebrated with fireworks, and bonfires burning his effigy.	
Guy Fawkes Day	an event taking place in England on the 5th of November each year commemorating the arrest of Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), an English conspirator who, on the 5th of November 1605, took part in a plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament to kill King James I. The day is celebrated with fireworks, and bonfires burning his effigy.	
Guys hospital	a large general hospital in London, England.	
GW	abbreviation for George Washington University: a large university (where L. Ron Hubbard studied engineering during the 1930s) located in Washington, DC, capital of the US.	
Gyppo		
H.	an allusion to Jack Horner (the character of the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner") in reference to Jack Horner, a person who had his certificates removed in 1960 for out-ethics and being connected to a decertified person.
See also pie, putting his thumb in in this glossary.	
Hace calor, no?	(Spanish) it's warm, isn't it?	
Hackton	short for Black Hackton, the individual who made man, the earth, the heavens, etc., according to the Apache Indians.	
had it	(colloquial) suffered or are about to suffer the loss of one's life, effectiveness, chance to do or get something, etc.	
had it, have	(colloquial) have suffered or are about to suffer the loss of one's life, effectiveness, chance to do or get something, etc.	
had it, have	(colloquial) have suffered or are about to suffer the loss of one's life, effectiveness, chance to do or get something, etc. All of a sudden you examine your fingernail and you're had it, see?—Value of Rudiments (31 May 62)	
had one's head	a coined phrase meaning punished someone.	
hades, hasn’t got a chance in	(colloquial) has no chance at all. Hades, in Greek mythology, is the home of the dead, beneath the earth. It is used colloquially to mean hell.	
Haig & Haig	a brand of Scotch whiskey (liquor).	
hair (almost) stand on end	(informal) the hair on one's head (almost) rise stiffly upwards as a sign or result of great fright or horror. "	
hair goes up	a variation of the expression one's hair stands on end, meaning the hair on one's head rises stiffly upwards as a sign or result of great fright or horror.	
hair has been standing on end, (one's)	the hair on (one's) head has been rising stiffly upwards as a sign or result of great fright or horror.  Used figuratively in the lecture.	
hair on end	(informal) the hair on one's head rising stiffly upwards as a sign or result of great fright or horror.	
hair out, tearing (one's)	showing sorrow or anger; feeling defeat.	
hair's breadth	a very short distance or small amount (used to indicate how close something is to something else).	
hakim	(in Arabia, India and other Moslem countries) a wise or learned man; a doctor.	
half crown	a former silver or cupronickel (an alloy of copper and nickel) coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence. Its use was phased out after decimalization in 1971.	
Half Decayed Flowers club	a made-up name for a club.	
half-baked	(informal) not thought out or studied thoroughly; not worth considering or accepting	
half-seas over	(slang) drunk; intoxicated; inebriated. The expression literally comes from the condition of a ship stranded on a reef or rock when the seas break over her deck. In this condition she is unable to take any action to ease her situation. The expression has passed into the English language to describe the situation of a person incapacitated by drink and incapable of steering a steady course.	
Halifax, from Hell to	a coined expression meaning all over or everywhere. Historically, Halifax was (and is) a town in north central England whose name came to be a euphemism for hell in such phrases as "go to Halifax." Also, the name appears in an old beggars' and vagabonds' "prayer" that goes "From Hull, Hell and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us." It is said that Hull (a seaport in England) was to be avoided because the beggars had little chance of getting anything there without doing hard labor for it, and Halifax because anyone caught stealing cloth there was beheaded without further ado.	
Halifax, from here till	a coined expression meaning all over or everywhere. Historically, Halifax was (and is) a town in north central England whose name came to be a euphemism for hell in such phrases as "go to Halifax." Also, the name appears in an old beggars' and vagabonds' "prayer" that goes "From Hull, Hell and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us." It is said that Hull (a seaport in England) was to be avoided because the beggars had little chance of getting anything there without doing hard labor for it, and Halifax because anyone caught stealing cloth there was beheaded without further ado.	
Halifax, from here to	a coined expression meaning all over or everywhere. Historically, Halifax was (and is) a town in north central England whose name came to be a euphemism for hell in such phrases as "go to Halifax." Also, the name appears in an old beggars' and vagabonds' "prayer" that goes "From Hull, Hell and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us." It is said that Hull (a seaport in England) was to be avoided because the beggars had little chance of getting anything there without doing hard labor for it, and Halifax because anyone caught stealing cloth there was beheaded without further ado.	
Hallow’s Eve	Halloween: a festival celebrated on October 31st each year. Its name means "holy evening" because it comes before All Saint's Day, the day set aside by the Roman Catholic Church to honor all saints who had no special day of their own. In modern times it is celebrated with pranks and parties, and with customs that are a mixture of many beliefs.	
Halpern, Dick	a student on the Briefing Course at the time of these lectures.	
Halpern, Richard	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of these lectures.	
Hamilton, Alexander	(1755-1804) a soldier and political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; a founding father (one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence) of the United States. Hamilton advised George Washington (first president of the US) in the Revolutionary War and was a leader in the drafting of the Constitution. He later served under Washington as the first secretary of the treasury in the new government.	
Hamlet	a tragedy by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan period. The play is about a young prince who avenges the murder of his father. Act 1, Scene 3, as quoted by LRH, has the following passage in it:
"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."	
Hammarskjold, Dag	Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarsyold (1905-1961), Swedish political economist and (from 1953-1961) secretary general of the United Nations.	
hammer and pound	force (something) upon or instill (something) by constant, persistent and emphatic repetition.	
hammer and sickle	the Communist emblem of the Soviet Union, consisting of a hammer (representing industrial workers) with its handle across the blade of a sickle (representing agricultural workers) and a star above.	
hammer and tongs	(colloquial) with all one's might; very vigorously.	
Hammett, Dash	Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), famous American writer of detective stories and movie scripts.	
Hammurabi, law of	reference to a Babylonian legal code of the eighteenth century B.C. or earlier, instituted by Babylonian king Hammurabi. It dealt with criminal and civil matters and was noted for its cruel and swift penalties. For example if a man knocked out the eye of another man, he could lose his own eye as punishment.	
hamper, drop into the	present themselves (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hamper, dropped out of the	presented itself (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hamper, fall out of the	present itself (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hamper, fall right out of that	present itself (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hamper, falls out of the	presents itself (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hamper, fell out of the	presented itself (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hamper, fell out of this	presented itself (as an answer, idea, condition datum, etc.).	
hamper, shaken out of the	(informal) presented (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.).	
hand and fist	(colloquial) a Variation of hand in glove.
See glove, hand in in this glossary.	
hand in glove	in intimate association or partnership; in close agreement or cooperation.	
handed in (one's) chips	(slang) died. The allusion is to the American game of poker, in which a player may at any time drop from the game and pass in his chips to the banker in exchange for cash.	
hang fire	delay firing. After the trigger is pulled, a gun sometimes doesn't go off. This is called a "hang‑fire" or delayed fire if it then goes off late.	
hang up	become stuck, blocked or impeded
(slang) become a source of annoyance, difficulty or burden; become an impediment; snag	
hanged, when the last dog has been	(colloquial) when there are no other options remaining. A Variation of the expression there are more ways of killing a dog than by hanging, meaning there is more than one way of achieving your objective.	
hang-fire	delayed firing. After the trigger is pulled, a gun sometimes doesn't go off This is called a "hang-fire" or delayed fire if it then goes off late.	
hanging fire	delaying firing After the trigger is pulled, a gun sometimes doesn't go off. This is called a "hang-fire" or delayed fire if it then goes off late. Used figuratively in reference to something which is slow in occurring or something which does not bring about the result one might expect.	
hanging up	becoming stuck, blocked or impeded.	
hangover	something remaining behind from a former period or state of affairs.	
hangs up	becomes a source of annoyance, difficulty or burden; becomes an impediment; snags.	
hangy	sticky; blocked; impeded.	
happy as a clam	in a very happy manner. From the phrase happy as a clam at high tide, which comes from the fact that clams, considered a delicacy in America, are gathered only at low tide. In other words, a clam would be happy at high tide because it was not being gathered for food.	
happy as clambakes	a variation of happy as a clam at high tide, very happy, which comes from the fact that clams, considered a delicacy in America, are gathered only at low tide. In other words, a clam would be happy at high tide because it would not be being gathered for food. A clambake is a picnic at which clams steamed or baked with chicken, corn, etc., are served.	
happy as clams	in a very happy manner. From the phrase happy as a clam at high tide, which comes from the fact that clams, considered a delicacy in America, are gathered only at low tide. In other words, a clam would be happy at high tide because it would not be being gathered for food.	
Harch 13th Amnesty	an amnesty announced on the 13th of March 1963 in HCO PL 13 Mar. 63, AMNESTY. For more information this policy letter can be found in OEC Volume 1.	
Hardy, Thomas	(1840-1928) English novelist and poet, author of over ten novels and seven volumes of poetry.  His view of life was one in which he saw man as subject to forces he could neither understand nor control.	
harmonic	one of two or more manifestations or actions which are, themselves, different yet are related in terms of some quality or qualities. For example, laughing because one was embarrassed would be a lower harmonic of laughing because something was funny.	
harmonics	two or more manifestations or actions which are themselves different yet are related in terms of some quality or qualities. For example, laughing because one was embarrassed would be a lower harmonic of laughing because something was funny.	
harp at (someone)	talk to (someone) very much or too much.	
Hartrampff's Vocabulary	the title of a book of synonyms.	
Harvard	Harvard University, the oldest university in the United States; located at Cambridge, Massachusetts.	
Harvey	William Harvey (1578-1657), English physician and discoverer of the mechanics of blood circulation.	
Hashshashin	Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah (died ll24), also known as the Old Man of the Mountains; founder of the Assassins (from Arabic hashshashin, or addicts of the drug hashish), a secret order of religious fanatics in Persia (now called Iran).	
hat tip	uncovering of the head as a mark of reverence.	
hat, pick (something) out of the	(informal) get (something) as if by magic; invent; imagine.	
hat, pulls (something) out of the	(informal) gets (something) as if by magic; invents or imagines (something).	
hatch	(slang) the throat as used for drinking.	
hath	(archaic) have.	
hats, hold your	(slang) get ready to hear something shocking or amazing.  A Variation of hang on to your hats.	
hats, talking in their	(informal) talking without real knowledge, saying things that are incorrect or foolish. A variation of the phrase talking through one's hat.	
Hauser, Gayelord	Benjamin Gayelord Hauser (1895‑1984), German‑born nutritionist, advocate of natural foods for general health, weight reduction and curative effects. Some of his books include Eat and Grow Beautiful (1936) and Look Younger, Live Longer (1950).	
hausfrau	(German) a housewife.	
hawk, watching (something) like a	(informal) watching (something) very closely, especially in order to catch it doing something, to put a stop to something, etc.	
hawsepipes	iron or steel pipes in the bow of a vessel through which an anchor cable passes.	
hay out of, make a lot of	(informal) profit from or take advantage of (something) while one has the chance, especially to have a good time while one can.	
hay, making	(informal) profiting from or taking advantage of (something) while one has the chance, especially to have a good time while one can.	
Hayakawa	Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906- ), US university teacher and president, known for his writings and lecturing on the theories of Alfred Korzybski and general semantics.
See also Korzybski in this glossary.	
haystack, needle in the	a very small article amidst a mass of other things.	
Hayward, Susan	(1918-1975) a leading American film star from the late 30s to the 60s. She acted in over 58 movies.	
H-bomb marchers	reference to demonstrators against the use of nuclear weapons. They held demonstrations and marches in many countries, including the United States. During 1961 there were repeated demonstrations in England, specifically against the stationing of United States missile submarines at British bases.	
head, fall on (one's)	(colloquial) fail to be successful. A variation of fall flat on one's face.	
head, fall on their	(colloquial) failure to be successful.  A Variation of fall flat on one's face.	
head, has got rocks in (one's)	(slang) is stupid or foolish.	
head, knock in the	(informal) put an end to.	
head, knocked in the	(slang) eritieized severely; dispraised.	
head, raised its ugly	showed itself publicly; appeared.  A Variation of the phrase showed its head.	
head, throw (one) in over his	(slang) make (one) certain to fail or meet with disaster.	
head, way over (one's)	(slang) in or into a condition too difficult for (one) to understand. You've listed this pc way over his head. ‑Clearing Technology (15 Nov. 62)	
headin’ fo'	(dialect) heading for.	
heads flying, there are	(slang) people are being dismissed, punished, ruined, etc.	
heads, over their	(slang) beyond one's comprehension, ability or resources.	
heads, take their (heads) off	a coined phrase meaning produce a shocking sensation.	
heads, throwing them in over their	(slang) making it too difficult for them to understand.	
headscreen	a small opaque or translucent panel, usually mounted on a portable boom stand, used to shade selected areas of the subject to obtain a desired lighting effect or to protect the camera from light that could cause flare or light fog.	
Health and Education and Welfare	a former department of the US government (1953‑1979) that administered federal programs dealing with health, education, welfare and income security.	
heart would bleed, (your)	(colloquial) you would be very sorrowful.	
heat treatment	the use of heat to treat disease or aid recovery from injury, with the purpose of stimulating the flow of blood to the injured area. This is thought by the medical profession to help tissues heal more rapidly.	
Heath	Edward Richard George Heath (1916- ), a British politician; Conservative Party leader (1965-1975); prime minister (1969-1974).	
heaven and earth, move	try every way; do everything you can.	
heaven knows	(informal) a Variation of the expression God knows, meaning "maybe God knows but 1 don't know and no one else knows." (Usually used to express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something.)	
heaven, in the name of	(colloquial) an exclamation used to express surprise or annoyance in questions, requests, etc.	
heavens	(colloquial) an expression of disappointment, disbelief, weariness, frustration, annoyance or the like.	
heavens on earth	an exclamation of surprise or protest.	
heaven's sakes	(colloquial) an expression of impatient annoyance or surprise.	
heavens, good	(colloquial) an exclamation of surprise or protest.	
heck was a pup, (since; till)	(slang) for a long time. "since the devil was young"; since long ago.	
heck, what the	(slang) whatever (an expression used to show surprise or annoyance). Heck is a euphemism for hell.	
hedgehogs	fortified positions "bristling" with guns pointing in all directions. From the idea of a hedgehog (animal) with sharp spines on its back which bristle when the animal curls up to protect itself.	
Hegel	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher, who held that what was truly real in the world was mind or spirit, not material things. Hegel argued that history showed a gradual unfolding of this mind. In 1801 he wrote a dissertation in which he asserted some numerological accounts of the distances and number of the planets.	
Heifetz, Jascha	(1901-1987) naturalized American violinist, he was born in Vilna, Lithuania. An amazing child prodigy, he graduated from the Vilna music school at the age of eight and became a pupil of Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. After giving concerts in St. Petersburg, Odessa, Kiev, Berlin and Leipzig, Heifetz came to America, where his New York debut in 1917 helped to establish him as one of the greatest violinists of all time, celebrated especially for his phenomenal technique and sense of style.	
heil Hitler	(German) hail Hitler: a familiar salutation to Adolf Hitler when he acceded to supreme power in Germany in 1934.  Often used derisively of one adopting dictatorial methods or attempting dictatorial policies.
See also Hitler in this glossary.	
Heinies	(slang) German people. From Heinrich, an extremely common German name.	
hell and gone, way to	(slang) very far from any given place.	
hell broke loose, all	(colloquial) everything became completely confused, noisy, etc.	
hell froze over, till	(colloquial) forever.	
hell hath no ARC breaks . . .	an allusion to the proverb hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, meaning no one is angrier than a woman who has been rejected in love.	
hell hath no fury	an allusion to the proverb hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, meaning no one is angrier than a woman who has been rejected in love.	
hell hath no snowball able to resist the fury	(slang) a coined phrase from hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, a woman who has been scorned in love by a man will try to get revenge on him in some way, and a snowball's chance in hell, no possibility whatever.	
hell in a balloon, going to	(slang) deteriorating badly and rapidly. A variation of the phrase go to hell in a hand basket (or a bucket).	
hell is breaking loose, all	(colloquial) everything is becoming completely confused, noisy, etc.	
hell is going to break loose, all	(colloquial) everything is going to become completely confused, noisy, etc.	
hell of a	(slang) very remarkable, awful, admirable, distressing, etc.	
hell of an	(slang) very remarkable, awful, admirable, distressing, etc.	
hell on wheels	(slang) extremely demanding, fast-paced, aggressive, effective or the like.	
hell or high water, come	(informal) no matter what happens; whatever may come.	
hell out of it, the	(informal) completely or thoroughly. From the common phrase beat the hell out of, meaning ”to defeat or thrash thoroughly,” this portion of the phrase is often used in similar constructions when referring to handling or doing something completely.	
hell raised	(colloquial) caused noisy trouble or fighting; shown one's disapproval of someone or something very loudly, etc.	
hell to pay	(slang) a very large fuss with dangerous implications; violent repercussions.	
hell with you, the	(informal) an exclamation expressing disgusted rejection of someone.	
hell with, to	(informal) an exclamation expressing disgusted rejection of something ".	
hell would have broken loose, all	(slang) things would have become very turbulent, dangerous, noisy, etc.	
hell, as	an intensifier meaning very or extremely.	
hell, goes to	(colloquial) becomes utterly ruined.	
hell, how the	(slang) however. An expression often showing surprise or annoyance.	
hell, like	(informal) very much, very hard, very fast, etc.
not so, untrue; an interjection indicating the speaker's lack of belief in what he heard.	
hell, only hope in	(colloquial) the only hope or chance at all.	
hell, raise	(colloquial) cause noisy trouble or fighting; show one's disapproval of someone or something very loudly, etc.
(colloquial) cause trouble.	
hell, raised	(colloquial) caused noisy trouble or fighting; showed one's disapproval of someone or something very loudly, etc.	
hell, raises	(slang) beyond their comprehension, ability or resources.
slang) creates an uproar.	
hell, raising	(colloquial) causing noisy trouble or fighting; showing one's disapproval of someone or something very loudly, etc.	
hell, shot to	(colloquial) utterly ruined.	
hell, the	(informal) an intensifier used to express surprise, anger, impatience, etc.	
hell, what the	(slang) whatever (used to introduce emphatic questions, often showing surprise or annoyance).	
Hellespont	previous name of Dardanelles, a narrow strait (84 to 4 miles wide) between Europe and Turkey joining the Aegean Sea with the Marmara Sea (a sea in northwest Turkey).	
hellfire and brimstone	promise of damnation and punishment; raising of visions of fire and brimstone, as the fire of hell.	
hells bells	an exclamation of impatience, anger, emphasis, etc.	
hell's bells	(slang) an exclamation of impatience, anger, emphasis, etc.	
hell's going to break loose, all	(colloquial) everything is going to become completely confused, noisy, etc.	
helluva	(slang) very remarkable, awful, admirable, distressing, etc. A variation of hell of a.	
hem and haw	(colloquial) make sounds as if one is clearing the throat, or groping around in speech, while searching for the right words.	
hemming and hawing	making sounds as if one is clearing the throat, or groping around in speech, while searching for the right words.	
Henny Penny and the sky was falling	reference to Henny Penny, also known as Chicken Little, a folk tale handed down by word of mouth through hundreds of years.  The story is about a chicken who, while walking down the road one day, passed under an oak tree from which an acorn dropped and hit her on the head.  She looked around and couldn't find what hit her and decided that the sky was falling.	
Henry the VIII	(1491-1547) a king of England in the early sixteenth century. With the support of his parliament he established himself as the head of the Christian church in England, in place of the pope, after the pope refused to allow his marriage with Catherine of Aragon to be dissolved.
See also Catherine of Aragon in this glossary.	
hens, leading order of	a variation of the phrase pecking order, a sequence of authority in an organization or social order. From a dominance hierarchy seen, especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.	
Hepsibah, Mrs.	a made-up name for a preclear.	
Herald Tribune	the name of a newspaper.	
Herbie	the name of a Course Supervisor at Saint Hill at the time of the lecture.	
Hercules	a mythical Greek hero of fabulous strength and courage who, after completing 12 heroic feats assigned to him (including killing several legendary monsters), became immortal.	
Herring	humorous reference to Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), a German statesman who participated with Hitler in an abortive attempt in Munich, Germany, to seize the government and then fled to Italy. He returned in 1927 and became an active leader in the Nazi party.
See also Hitler in this glossary.	
heuristic	based on experimentation, evaluation or trial-and-error methods.	
HEW	abbreviation for Health, Education and Welfare.
See Health and Education and Welfare in this glossary.	
hexadiagonal	variation of hexagonal; of or having the form of a hexagon (a flat figure with six angles and six sides).	
H‑factor	abbreviation for hope factor.	
Hickok, "Wild Bill"	(1837-1876), a frontier settler and United States marshal of the nineteenth century, known for his pursuit of some of the worst outlaws of the old West	
Higgenbottem	a made-up name.	
high C	(like) a pitch having a relatively high frequency.	
high old time 	(informal) a most enjoyable time.	
highway department	a state department responsible for the supervision of a designated system of highways.	
hill of beans	(slang) something of little significance, importance, or benefit; something insignificant or inconsequential. A variation of the phrase doesn't amount to a hill of beans.	
Himalayas	a mountain range in Asia, extending east through Pakistan, India, China (Tibet), Nepal and Bhutan. It contains the world's highest mountains, including Mount Everest (the highest peak in the world).	
Hiroshima	a Japanese city on which the United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on August 6, 1945.	
hit-and-miss	haphazard or random.	
Hitler	Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler's military advances contributed to starting World War II. He is known for killing millions of Jewish people in the belief that they would contaminate the German people. In rising to power in Germany, he fortified his position through murder of real or imagined opponents and maintained police-state control over the population. He led Germany into World War II resulting in its nearly total destruction. 	
Hitler Youth movements	activities of people whose beliefs are inspired by or reminiscent of the Hitler Youth, an organisation set up by Hitler to win the loyalty of future generations. All German boys and girls had to join it. They marched, exercised, learned Nazi beliefs and worked on farms. The Nazis taught children to spy on anyone suspected of opposing Hitler, even their own parents.
See also Hitler in this glossary.	
Hitlerize	a coined word from (Adolf) Hitler and -ize act in a specified way. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler's military advances contributed to starting World War II. He is known for killing millions of Jewish people in the belief that they would contaminate the German people.	
Hitlers	(informal) an intensifier used to express surprise, anger, impatience, etc.	
hiya	(interjection) a shortened form of how are you?	
Hobbema	Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), Dutch landscape painter.	
Hobbs Barracks	the name of army barracks near East Grinstead at the time of the lecture.	
hobbyhorse	a pet idea or project)	
Hobson-Jobson	a term which comes from "O Hasan, O Husain!" (ritual cry of mourning for Hasan and Husain, grandsons of the Moslem prophet Mohammed who were killed in battle). British troops in India heard these words and called it Hobson-Jobson. The word has come to mean a corruption of a foreign expression translated into English, or any corruption of a word or expression.	
Hobson-Jobsoned	corrupted (a word or expression, or a foreign expression) when translated into English. It comes from "O Hasan, O Husain!" (ritual cry of mourning for Hasan and Husain, grandsons of Mohammed who were killed in battle). British troops in India heard these words and called it Hobson-Jobson. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
hog Latin	a humorous variation of pig Latin; a jargon code following one simple rule: each pig Latin word is formed by moving the first letter to the end of the word and adding the letters 'ay'. Examples: dog becomes ogday and catcher becomes atchercay.	
hog, go the whole	(informal) go to the limit; do something thoroughly.	
Hollywood	a section of Los Angeles, California, once the site of many US film studios; hence, the US film industry or its life, world, etc. It was also home to Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)
See also Monroe, Marilyn in this glossary	
Holmes, Sherlock	the best known of all fictional detectives, created by English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Holmes's extraordinary powers of memory, observation, and deduction enable him to solve mysteries and identify criminals in cases that leave all other detectives baffled. His companion is Dr. Watson, who records his exploits.	
holy cats	an interjection showing astonishment, emphasis, etc.	
Holy Roller	a religious denomination that expresses religious emotion by shouting and moving about during services of worship.	
Holy Rollers	a religious denomination that expresses religious emotion by shouting and moving about during services of worship.	
Holy Rollers of God Help us	a made-up name for a religious sect. Holy Rollers are members of a religious sect that express religious emotion by shouting and moving about during services of worship.	
holy suffering catfish	(slang) a coined exclamation used to express surprise, wonder or confusion.	
Home	Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home (1903- ), Conservative Party leader in England and prime minister (1963-1964).	
homing-in pigeon	a coined phrase combining "homing in" and "homing pigeon." "Homing in" means directing or being directed as by radar to (a destination or target). A "homing pigeon" is a pigeon trained to find its way home from distant places.	
Homo sap	short for Homo sapiens: a human being.	
honest‑to‑God	(colloquial) genuine; real; authentic.	
honest-to-God	(colloquial) genuine; real; authentic.	
honest-to-goodness	(colloquial) genuine; real; authentic.  A Variation of honest-to-God.	
honey	(slang) something remarkably fine.
(slang) a difficult problem or task.	
hook	(golf) a hit ball that follows a path which curves away to the left of a right-handed player or to the right from a left-handed player.	
hooking into the rough	(golf) hitting the ball to his left into a part of the golf course where grass, weeds, etc., grow uncut. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Hooklaville	a made-up name for a town.	
hoolagaroo	a made-up word.	
Hooper rating	a percentage indication of the number of radios or television sets tuned to a particular program at a particular time (named after Claude E. Hooper, American statistician).	
Hoosegow University	a district of Los Angeles, California, where many motion pictures and television films are made.	
Hoosegow University	a made-up name for a university.  Hoosegow is slang for a jail.	
hootch dancer	a belly dancer; a woman who performs an erotic oriental dance involving abdominal contortions.	
Hoover, Herbert	(1874-1964) a political leader of the twentieth century who was US president from 1929 to 1933.  He had been in office only a few months when the Great Depression (the great slowdown in the American economy from 1929 to the early 1940s) began.  In the late 1940s, he was head of a commission to make the federal government more efficient.	
Hoover, J. Edgar	(1895-1972) director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-1972).
See also FBI in this glossary.	
hop	(slang) narcotic drugs, especially opium.  Used humorously in this lecture.	
hoppity-guppitting	a made-up word to express quick, light forward motion.	
Horace	Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.), Roman lyric poet and satirist.	
Horlicks	a brand of old-fashioned beverage made from wheat flour, malted barley extract and powdered milk.	
hornblende	See "Anamorphic schists are often found most closely blended with hornblende" in this glossary.	
Horner, Jack	a person who had his certificates removed in 1960 for out-ethics and being connected to a decertified person.	
Horney	Karen Horney (1885-1952), German-born American psychiatrist connected to the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.  She was the founder of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the author of several books on psychiatry and psychology.	
Horney, Karen	(1885‑1952) German‑born American psychiatrist connected to the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. She was the founder of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the author of several books on psychiatry and psychology.	
horse (one) rides, a	(colloquial) a subject or pastime that (one) has excessive devotion to. A variation of the phrase ride a hobbyhorse.	
horse (someone) up	work or haze (someone) cruelly or unfairly. From the nautieal term horsing up, the action of using a horsing iron to caulk the deck of a wooden vessel. A horsing iron is a broad‑bladed, dull‑edged chisel with a long wooden handle. It is held in position along a deck seam by one man while another man drives it in hard using a heavy wooden mallet to consolidate the oakum between the planks.	
Horse Guards	a cavalry brigade of the British Army attached as a special guard to the royal household.	
horse of a different hue, another	quite a different matter, question or point. A variation of the phrase a horse of another (or a different) color.	
horse of another hue	quite a different matter, question or point. A variation of the phrase a horse of another (or a different) color.	
horsed between two horses	a coined phrase meaning caught between one thing and another. From horsed, set astride, and between two horses, thus, mounted with one foot in the stirrup of one horse and the other foot in the stirrup of another horse.	
horsepower	capacity to achieve or produce; strength or talent.	
horsetail switch	a piece taken from the long, flowing part of a horse's tail that can be swished about.	
hot	charged; possessing harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive mind. 	
hot and cold running	operating in all conditions and circumstances.	
hot and heavy	(informal) in an intense, vehement or passionate manner.	
hot as skyrockets	(slang) very hot indeed. A skyrocket is a firework that explodes high in the air in a shower of colored sparks.	
Hot Boy Mind Biscuit Company	a made-up name for a company.	
hot potato, drop (something) like a	(slang) divest or get rid of (something) very quickly.	
hot potato, dropped like a	(slang) divested or gotten rid of very quickly.	
hot seat	(informal) an uncomfortable situation or position; an unpleasant or difficult duty, office or the like.	
hotchpotch	(British) hodgepodge; jumbled mixture; mess.	
hottest	(slang) best; most satisfactory.	
hot-water bottle	a container for holding hot water, usually made of rubber. It is used in the treatment of certain ailments, chiefly to relieve pain.	
Houdini	reference to Harry Houdini, the stage name of Erik Weiz (1874-1926), an American magician famed for his ability to escape from straitjackets, chains, handcuffs and locked chests.	
hound	hunt or chase with or as with hounds; chase or follow continually; nag	
house in order, getting (one’s)	making sure that (one’s) affairs are under control and that there is nothing wrong.	
House of Conunons	the lower house of the parliament of Britain. It includes representatives from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all elected by the people. The leader of the House of Commons is the Prime Minister of Britain.	
Howe	Sir William Howe (1729-1814), an English army officer who commanded the British at the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.
See also Bunker Hill, battle of in this glossary.	
Howerd, Frankie	(1921- ) a well-known English comedian who appeared on television and the radio at the time of this lecture.	
Hoyle, according to	according to the rules or authority; correctly. Edmond Hoyle (1672‑1769) was an English authority and writer on card games.	
Hub rink organ	a giant Wurlitzer pipe organ located in the Hub skating rink in Chicago.
See also Wurlitzer in this glossary.	
huba-hubung	a made-up word	
Hudsmith, Phil	an English Scientologist living near Saint Hill at the time of the lecture.	
Hudson Bay Company	an English company in the area of Hudson's Bay (a large inland sea in northern Canada) organised by a group of English businessmen in the seventeenth century to obtain furs in North America for the British market.	
hula skirt	a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.	
Humber	the brand name of a British car manufactured by Humber Limited, based in Coventry, England.	
humble pie, eating	(slang) admitting that one is wrong or saying that one is sorry for something that one has said or done.	
Hume	David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher and historian. Hume was known for his skepticism. He maintained that all knowledge was based on either the impressions of the senses or the logical relations of ideas.	
humps	the most difficult, time-consuming or dangerous parts or periods.	
Humpty Dumpty	an egg in an old nursery rhyme, represented by a short, squat person, who fell from a wall and broke into pieces. The entire rhyme is:
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again."	
Hunahs	a made‑up name for a tribe.	
Hundred Years' War	a war between France and England that lasted from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth. The kings of England invaded France, trying to claim the throne. Toward the end of the war, Joan of Arc ([ca. 1412-1431] French military leader) helped rally the French, who finally drove the English out.	
hung	stuck; blocked; impeded.	
hung fire	delayed firing After the trigger is pulled, a gun sometimes doesn't go of£ This is called a "hang-fire" or delayed fire if it then goes off late.	
hung up	stuck; blocked; impeded.	
Hungarian thing	a reference to the revolution that broke out in October 1956 in Budapest, Hungary, when bands of students and workers rebelled against the communist government. The country was briefly controlled by the rebels until Russian tanks rolled in and crushed the revolution. A new communist government was then set up.	
Hunha Kapunah Unah Unahs	a made‑up name for a tribe.	
hunt and punch	(informal) done as if hunting and pecking, a crude method of typewriting done by searching out each individual letter and striking it with an index finger. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
hunt-and-punchy	(informal) as if hunting and pecking, a crude method of typewriting done by searching out each individual letter and striking it with an index finger.	
hurdy-gurdy	an early instrument played by turning a crank so that a wheel striking strings in turn caused music. Used in the lecture in reference to the automatic character of the instrument.	
Huskie	a thirty-foot sea skiff (a light rowboat, especially one with a small sail) owned by LRH in the late 50s.	
Huxley, Aldous	(1894-1963), an English author of the twentieth century best known for his novel Brave New World .
See also Brave New World in this glossary.	
Hyde Park	a public park of 364 acres in the West End district of London.	
hyperagitated	excessively or abnormally agitated.	
hyperbolid	(geometry) an alteration of hyperboloid, a three-dimensional geometric solid.	
hypnotized bird	a reference to the state of mesmerism some animals go into when confronted by a snake. While it is sometimes believed that snakes hypnotize their prey, the state actually occurs from curiosity or fear, not hypnotism.	
hypochondria	abnormal anxiety over one's health, often with imaginary illnesses and severe melancholy.	
hypodermicizing	injecting (someone) with a medicine or drug as a treatment. Coined from hypodermic, the forcing of a medicine or drug under the skin with a needle, and the suffix -ize, to treat with.	
I burn my candle at both ends. Some say it isn't nice	reference to a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay entitled A Few Figs from Thistles. A part of the poem reads:
"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light.”	
I Will Arise	a made-up name for a group.	
I Will Arise Societies	a made-up name for societies.	
I Will-Arise Holy Rollers	a made-up name for a religious sect. Holy Rollers are members of a religious sect that express religious emotion by shouting and moving about during services of worship.	
IBM	International Business Machines Corporation, a leading US business machine and computer manufacturer.	
ICBM	abbreviation for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Used humourously in this lecture.	
ICI	abbreviation for Imperial Chemical Industries, a major British chemical manufacturer. 	
IDB	reference to the IDB, Ilicit Diamond Buying Act, which limited the trade of diamonds to licensed buyers and imposed severe penalties for thievery.	
if'n	(dialect) if.	
igualdad	(Spanish) equality.	
Ilford	Ilford Photographic Corporation, a British company established in 1879.  It manufactures photographic equipment and supplies.	
Immelmann	an aerodynamic maneuver in which an aircraft changes direction and gains altitude by making a half loop and a half roll. It was developed by Max Immelmann (1890-1916), German aviator in World War I. He was regarded as founder of the German technique of air combat. 	
immersionism	a humorous variation of impressionism, a style of painting associated mainly with French artists of the late nineteenth century. Impressionist painting attempts to convey the impression gained from the direct observation of nature. Concerned principally with the study of light and its refractions, short brush strokes of bright colors are used in immediate juxtaposition (put side by side or close together) to represent the effect of light on objects.	
impervium	a made-up name for a material that is unable to be penetrated, coined from the word impervious.	
in the name of common sense	(colloquial) a phrase used to express surprise or annoyance in questions, requests, etc. "	
in the name of God	(colloquial) an expression of surprise or annoyance in questions, requests, etc. ".	
Indian rope trick	a magic trick in which the magician makes a rope seem to suspend in midair and either goes up the rope and disappears or sends other things up which disappear.	
inferiority complex	(psychology) a strong and persistent feeling of inferiority; great lack of self-confidence.	
Infernal Ravening	a humorous alteration of Internal Revenue, a division of the US Department of the Treasury, established in 1862. It is responsible for the assessment and collection of federal taxes other than those on alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives. It collects most of its revenues through the individual and corporate income tax. (Also see the words infernal and ravening in a dictionary.)	
infiltrusions, capacitate without rectifying them on the	a humorously made-up electrical phrase.	
Ingersoll	Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), American lawyer and writer.  He was well known as an orator, lecturer, and religious controversialist, being best known for his attacks on the Bible.	
inkstone	a stone containing iron sulphate used in making ink. When lamp-black (a fine soot) is mixed with gum on the inkstone, iron sulphate is imparted into the mixture. The more iron sulphate contained in the ink the less it fades.	
Inland Revenue	(British) the department of the government dealing with the collection of taxes on domestic goods and incomes.	
inshallah	if Allah (God) wills it.	
inspection arms	a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.	
interesante	(Spanish) interesting.	
Internal Revenue	a division of the US Department of the Treasury, established in 1862.  It is responsible for the assessment and collection of federal taxes other than those on alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives.  It collects most of its revenues through the individual and corporate income tax. 	
International Harvester	a tractor manufactured by International Harvester, one of the largest manufacturing concerns-in the world, best known for farm implements.	
International Harvesters	tractors manufactured by International Harvester, one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the world, best known for farm implements.	
Interstate Commerce	abbreviation for International Business Machines Corporation, a leading US business machine and computer manufacturer.	
invigilator	(British) one who watches students during an examination.	
IRA	abbreviation for Irish Republican Army, a secret organization in Ireland that originally fought for Irish independence from Britain. After the 1921 division of Ireland into Northern Ireland, which remained united with Britain, and the Irish Free State, now called the Republic of Ireland, the IRA took as its goal the uniting of the entire island under the Republic. The IRA continues to pursue this goal; membership, however, is illegal in the Republic.	
ironsides	a strong person with great power of endurance or resistance.	
irregular verb	a verb whose past form is made by adding some other ending than -ed or d (as in regular verbs). For example the irregular form of sing is sang.	
Iskander the Great of the Two Horns	the Persian name for Alexander the Great (356‑323 B.C.). The "two horns" referred to his headdress, as worn during the fourth century B.C., consisting of a helmet with two horn‑shaped protrusions coming out of the top.
See also Alexander in this glossary.	
'it	(dialect) hit.	
ITV	abbreviation for Independent Television, an alliance of 15 independently owned and operated British television stations that was founded in 1956 as a rival operation to the British Broadcasting Corporation.	
ivory tower	a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs.	
ivory-towered	remotely placed or situated from worldly or practical affairs.	
I-Will-Arise Church	a made-up name for a church.	
izzard	reference to nazzard: an independent stop of a two and two-thirds foot length.  It has a high-pitched sound which is used in combination with other stops. 	
Izzybelle	a made-up name.	
Jack	reference to John F. Kennedy ("Jack" is a nickname for "John").
See Kennedy in this glossary.	
jackpot	the highest success or reward. Figurative reference to the action of hitting the jackpot, receiving money from a slot machine (a gambling device having a lever that is pulled to spin disks and turn up symbols, various combinations of which determine the results).	
Jackson, "Stonewall"	Thomas J. Jackson (1812-1863), a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He got his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run (the first battle of the American Civil War), where he and his men "stood like a stone wall."	
Jag	short for Jaguar, the brand name of a high-quality British car manufactured by Jaguar Limited, based in Coventry, England.	
Jaguar	the brand name of a high-quality British car manufactured by Jaguar Limited, based in Coventry, England.	
Jaguar, E-type	reference to the Jaguar XKE, a model of sports car first produced in 1960 by Jaguar Limited, a British car manufacturer based in Coventry, England.	
jailbird	a person who is or has been confined in jail; convict or ex-convict.	
Jan	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of the lecture.	
jann	(Moslem Legend) a supernatural being that can take human or animal form and either help or harm people. Also called a jinni.	
Japanese sign pens	felt tipped marking pens. The first commercial marking pens were made by the Japanese in the mid 1960s.	
jaundosis-lumbosis of the limburger	a made-up name for a disease of a made-up body part.	
jazaboos	a made‑up word.	
jazz chat	(slang) insincere, exaggerated or pretentious talk.	
jeez	an exclamation of surprise, dismay, emphasis, etc.	
jeez	(slang) an exclamation of surprise, dismay, emphasis, etc.	
Jefferson, Thomas	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the United States. Jefferson wrote and presented the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.	
Jefferson, Tom	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the United States. Jefferson wrote and presented the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.	
Jenner	Mr. Jenner, the estate bricklayer at Saint Hill Manor at the time of the lecture.	
Jenner, Mr.	the estate bricklayer at Saint Hill Manor at the time of the lecture.	
Jericho, the gates of	a figurative reference to Jericho, a city in west Jordan, whose impenetrable walls, according to the Bible, tumbled down miraculously when trumpets were sounded.	
jerry‑rig‑built	built cheaply and flimsily.	
Jersey	the largest of the Channel Islands. It is the southernmost island of the group and lies off the west coast of the Normandy peninsula in the British Channel. Jersey has an area of 43 square miles.	
Jervis Crack	a made-up name.	
jillion	a made-up word for a large number.	
Jim	See Elliot in this glossary.	
jim-dandy	(slang) a person or thing that is remarkable, wonderful, superior, etc.	
Joan of Arc	Jeanne d’Arc (ca. 1412-1431), a French military leader of the fifteenth century, a national heroine who at the age of seventeen took up arms to establish the rightful king on the French throne.	
Johannesburg	the largest city in South Africa, located in the northeastern part of the country.	
John	a staff member in Washington, DC at the time of the lecture.	
John and Mary of life, the	a coined expression meaning "usual, ordinary, day-to-day matters"; John and Mary being among the most common of names in English-speaking countries.	
John Q. Jones	a made-up name for an auditor.	
Johnny	a staff member in Washington, DC at the time of this lecture.	
Johnny to the root	(colloquial) a Variation of puppy to the root.
See puppy to the root in this glossary.	
Johnny-come-lately	late arrival or participant; newcomer.
(like) a recently arrived person or thing, especially as compared with the more seasoned.	
Johnny-on-the-spot	(informal) a person who is on hand to perform a service, seize an opportunity, deal with an emergency, etc.	
Johns Hopkins University	a university in Baltimore, Maryland, US, established in 1876. It offers degrees in engineering and medicine.	
Johnson	reference to Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862), a Confederate general in the US Civil War. Johnston was killed during an attack against General Grant.
See also Grant in this glossary.	
Johnson, Mr.	Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), United States president from 1963 to 1969.	
Johnson's poverty programs	a reference to the actions of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), thirty-sixth president of the United States (19631969) and member of the Democratic Party.  During his presidency he started several domestic programs, including one known as the War on Poverty.  It was a set of government programs designed to help poor Americans which consisted mainly of measures for job training and improvement of housing.	
Joint Chiefs of Staff	a high-level military advisory board in the Department of Defense, composed of high-ranking representatives of the army, navy, air force and marines. The Joint Chiefs are responsible for formulating military policy and recommending action regarding issues of national security and international relations.	
joker in the deck	(slang) a hidden cost, qualification, defeat, nasty result, etc. A joker is a playing card, usually imprinted with the figure of a jester. In some card games the joker is used as a wild card, which could create an unsuspected defeat if it were drawn and used by one's opponent.	
Joliet	nickname for Stateville Prison, near the town of Joliet, in the state of Illinois, United States.	
jolly	(British informal) extremely; very.	
Jonah	a person or thing whose presence is supposed to bring bad luck. From Jonah, an Israelite whom God had called to be a prophet but who refused to accept his mission and left on a sea voyage instead. Per the Old Testament God then raised a great storm as a sign of his anger with Jonah. The sailors, realizing that Jonah's disobedience had caused the storm, threw him overboard in an attempt to save their ship.	
Jones	Farmer Jones, a farmer who lived next door to Saint Hill on an adjacent property at the time of these lectures.	
Jones, Farmer	a farmer who lived next door to Saint Hill on an adjacent property at the time of these lectures.	
Jones, John	a made-up name for a person.	
Jones, John Paul	(1747-1792) a naval leader of the Revolutionary War, known for his attacks on British ships off the coast of England. When a British commander asked him to surrender his badly crippled ship during a battle, he replied, "I have not yet begun to fight"—and compelled the British ship to surrender as his own ship sank.	
Jordan, crossed the	gone into a dangerous and hard-to-handle area. A reference to crossing the River Jordan, a river in northern Israel, flowing south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. It has been the site of much conflict over territorial boundaries and religious beliefs from biblical times to the present.	
Jove, full‑armed from the brow oh	(Roman mythology) reference to the origin by Minerva, goddess of wisdom, arts, industries and prudent warfare, who was said to have sprung, full grown and dressed in armor, from the forehead of Jove, her father.	
Jubba-Jubba Pangawonga, Mr.	a made-up name for a person.	
Jub-bub	a made-up name.	
Judy O'Grady, the colonel's lady	an allusion to the lines:
"For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins!"
from a poem The Ladies by English writer Rudyard Kipling (18651936).	
Jugblug	a made-up name for a witch doctor.	
Juggernaut	a Hindu deity, considered to be a deliverer from sin. His image is carried on a large wagon in an annual procession in India. According to legend the wagon crushed worshipers who threw themselves under its wheels. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
juju	a spirit or god, worshipped by some West African tribes. The word was originally applied to objects which it was supposed the natives worshipped, and was transferred from the objects themselves to the spirits or gods who dwelt in them.	
Julia	a staff member in the United States at the time of the lecture.	
jumping the gun	starting ahead of time, as a nervous competitor in a race who starts before the gun is fired.	
jumps, over the	through various tests of endurance and ability. An allusion to steeplechase, in which a rider takes his horse through a course containing various obstacles to be jumped over.	
jumwims	a made-up word.	
Jung	Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychologist; one of the main psychiatric authorities of his time. He differed with Freud in regarding the libido (energy or driving force) as a will to live rather than a manifestation of the sex instinct, and holding that a neurosis is to be understood more by analysis of the patient's present problem and inadequate "adjustment" than by unearthing childhood fixations and conflicts. He divided all men into two classes—introverts and extroverts and laid tremendous stress on Druidism and wrote a great deal about it.
See also Druids in this glossary.	
Jungian	of or like Carl Gustav Jung (1875‑1961).
See also Jung in this glossary.	
Justinian	(A.D. 483-565) Roman emperor from 527 until his death. He was known chiefly for his codification of Roman law and construction of many churches, one of which, St. Sophia at Constantinople, is considered one of the wonders of the world.	
Ka-bob civilization	a made-up name for a civilization.	
kabub	a made-up word.	
kabutniks	a made-up word for a currency.	
Kahoona Kapuna Kapunas	a made-up name.	
Kaiser	(German) emperor. Reference to Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German emperor (1888-1918). On the outbreak of the first Russian Revolution (March 1917) the Germans, with the object of weakening Russian war efforts, smuggled one of the key revolutionaries (Vladimir Lenin) into St. Petersburg. Lenin set about overthrowing the provisional government and seized power in a second revolution in November, ultimately becoming virtual dictator in Russia. In November of 1918, Wilhelm abdicated and fled to Holland after Germany was defeated in World War 1.
See also Lenin in this glossary.
one of the largest aluminum-making companies in the United States (founded in 1946).	
Kaiser Bill	a humorous reference to William 11 (1859‑1941), Emperor of Germany (1888‑1918). (Kaiser is German for "emperor.") Through inept handling of his power and authority as emperor, he helped cause the circumstances leading to World War I and thereby the deaths of millions of men on the battlefields.	
Kaiser, Henry J.	Henry John Kaiser (1882-1967), American industrialist and founder of a number of industrial corporations including Kaiser Aluminum, one of the largest aluminum-processing organizations in the world.  He sat on the board of directors of Bank of America.  Its president, Amadeo Giannini, was one of the few bankers to contribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt's (1882-1945) election as US president.  During World War II, Kaiser was introduced to President Roosevelt by Giannini.  Although Kaiser's company had never built a ship before he met Roosevelt, his industries received contracts for building 35 percent of US ship tonnage during World War II.	
Kangarooland	a humorous reference to Australia. Kangaroos are native to Australia.	
Kansas	a state in the central part of the United States.	
Kant	Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher. He sought to determine laws and the limits of man's knowledge and form a division between what he considered knowable or common knowledge and "truth beyond human experience."	
Kant, Immanuel	Immanuel Kant (1724‑1804), German philosopher. He sought to determine laws and the limits of man's knowledge and form a division between what he considered knowable or common knowledge and "truth beyond human experience."	
Kanzarkansas	a humorously made-up name for a state, coined from two American states, Kansas and Arkansas.	
Kapluskov	a made-up word which rhymes with "Nov." (a shortened form of "November").	
karo tree	a tall (30 ft) tree-like shrub grown in California, US, where it is drought resistant.	
katakana	the simplest type of characters used in Japanese writing Katakana are square-shaped and look rather like printed English letters.	
Katanga	the former name of Shaba, a province of south Zaire.	
Kaye, Sammy	(1913-1987) the leader of a famous American jazz band. He hosted his own TV show in the 50s called "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye."	
Keaton	a pressman for the American Medical Association at the time of this lecture. Along with Oliver Field he created bad publicity for Scientology.
See also Field and American Medical Association in this glossary.	
Keeler	Leonardo Keeler (1903-1949), American criminologist. Invented and marketed a lie detector in the 1930s.
reference to the lie detector, invented and marketed by American criminologist, Leonarde Keeler (1903-1949) in the 1930s	
Keeley	Leslie E. Keeley (1832-1900), an American physician who held the view that alcoholism is a disease and not a vice. He was the originator of "Keeley treatment" for alcoholics and drug addicts which involved the injection of a gold compound into the body.	
Kennedy	John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), president of the United States from 1961 to 1963.  In 1961 he approved the Bay of Pigs operation, an invasion of Cuba by US-backed Cuban exiles with the aim of ousting the communist regime of Fidel Castro (1927- ). Most of the exiles were killed or taken prisoner and the operation was a disaster.  Kennedy's presidency ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963.
Robert Francis Kennedy (19251968), a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, who served as Attorney General during his presidency.	
Kennedy, Nikita	a humorous variation of the name John F. (Jack) Kennedy, interchanged with the name Nikita Khrushchev.
See also Khrushchev, Jack in this glossary.	
Kennedyite	one who believed in or supported John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), president of the United States from 1961 to 1963. His presidency ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963.	
Keokuk	a city located on the Mississippi River, in southeast Iowa, in the Midwestern United States. It has a population of about 13,000 people. Used in the lecture to mean a small out-of-the-way town. Used figuratively in these lectures.	
Keokuk	a city located on the Mississippi River, in southeast lowa, in the Midwestern United States. It has a population of about 13,000 people. Well, let's take this city office in the mythical town of Keokuk. -Programs (3 Nov. 64)	
Keokuk Central Office	a made-up name for an organization.  Keokuk is a city located on the Mississippi River, in the Midwestern United States and has a population of about 13,000 people.	
Keplin-Spreplin law	a made-up name for a law.	
Keplin-Spreplin law	a made-up, nonsensical mathematical or scientific calculation. 	
Keynes, Lord	John Maynard Keynes (1883‑1946), English economist and writer. His economic theories, Keynesian economics, advocate using government policies and programs to increase employment through vast government spending in times of recession.	
khatinkas	humorous reference to khat plants, evergreen shrubs whose twigs and leaves are sold in Arabian markets. A beverage is made from the twigs and leaves which has been used for centuries, with qualities similar to those of coffee and tea.	
Khrushchev	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971), Soviet leader; first secretary of the Communist Party (1953-1964); premier of Soviet Union (1958-1964). He led a campaign called de-Stalinization, to remove the influence of the late premier Joseph Stalin from Soviet society. He urged peaceful coexistence between his country and western nations. Within the Soviet Bloc, however, Khrushchev sent troops into Poland and Hungary in 1956 against persons who resisted the communist government. He also aided the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. He had Soviet military missiles installed there but removed them at the insistence of the United States. He was suddenly removed from power in October, 1964.	
Khrushchev, Jack	a humorous variation of the name Nikita Khrushchev, interchanged with the name John F. (Jack) Kennedy
See also Kennedy, Nikita in this glossary.	
Khrushki	a humorous reference to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (18941971), Soviet leader; first secretary of the Communist Party (1953-1964); premier of Soviet Union (1958-1964).	
kick (someone) in the teeth	(informal) give (someone) unexpected scorn or insult when praise was expected; reject (someone).	
kicked (something) off	(informal) began, launched or started (something).	
kiddie car	a toy vehicle for a small child, having three wheels and pushed with the feet.	
kid's stuff	(informal) something appropriate only for children.	
Kilauea	the crater on the east side of Mauna Loa, a volcano in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in south central Hawaii. It is two miles wide and the largest active crater in the world.	
kill two birds with one pc	a Variation of the expression kill two birds with one stone, meaning to accomplish two objectives with a single action.	
killer	(slang) an extremely successful, impressive, exciting, etc., person or thing.	
killers	(slang) things that are remarkable, wonderful, superior, etc.	
King Henry VIII	(1491-1547) a king of England in the early sixteenth century who was known for having six wives. With the support of his parliament he established himself as the head of the Christian Church in England. Though often headstrong and cruel, Henry made England an important power. He rebuilt the English Navy and fought several successful land battles with France and Scotland.	
King of the Wood	see Frazer's Golden Bough in this glossary.	
Kingville	a made-up name for a city.	
Kipling	Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), English writer.
See also "If" in this glossary.	
kitchen sink	the final item imaginable on any extensive list of usually disparate items.	
kitterwigit	a made-up word.	
Kleenex	(trademark) a soft tissue paper used as a handkerchief, etc.	
kleptomania	(psychology) an irresistible impulse to steal, stemming from emotional disturbance rather than economic need.	
knock	a hard stroke or thump.	
knock (one) in the head	(slang) criticize (one) severely; dispraise (one).	
knock (one's) own block off		
knock (someone) colder than ice	(informal) knock (someone) completely unconscious.	
knock (something) in the head	(informal) put an end to (something).	
knock it off	(slang) stop doing or saying something	
knock off	(slang) kill.	
knockdown-drag-out	(US slang) characterized by great violence, especially hand-to-hand; rough; violent; raging.	
knockdown-drag-out	(US slang) (a fight -) characterized by great violence, especially hand-to-hand; a rough, violent or raging fight. Was this a knockdown-drag-out?—TV Demo: Prepchecking, Part I (2 May 62)	
knocking	stroking or thumping hard. Used figuratively in this lecture in reference to reads on the E-Meter.	
knocking (somebody's) block off	(slang) hitting (somebody) very hard; beating (somebody) up.	
knocking on wood	(colloquial) an expression used to show hope that the good fortune one has just mentioned will not stop or that something unpleasant will not happen.	
knockout drops	(slang) a drug put into a drink to cause the drinker to become stupefied or unconscious.	
knots, tie (oneself) into	(informal) cause (oneself) to become confused and uncertain.	
knots, tying (one) up in	(slang) hit (one) very hard; beat (one) up.  Used figuratively.	
knuckle-duster	(slang) a person who fights well, frequently, with enthusiasm, or unfairly.	
knucklehead	(slang) a stupid person.	
knuckleheaded	(slang) stupid.	
knuckleheadedly	(slang) stupidly.	
knuckleheadedness	(slang) stupidness.	
knuckleheadedness	(slang) stupidity.	
Kokokomo	a made-up name for a small town, coined from Kokomo, a small city in north central Indiana, US.	
Kokono County	a made‑up name for a county.	
Komodo dragon	a large, flesh‑eating lizard of certain Indonesian islands east of Java, that grows to a length of 10 feet; the largest lizard in the world.	
Kootenay	a reference to the land through which the Kootenay River runs in Montana.	
Koran	the sacred book of Islam.  Moslems believe that the teachings of the Koran were revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed.	
Korean War	the war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in 1950-1953, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the US and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force. The United Nations declared North Korea the aggressor and sent troops. In 1953, with neither side having a prospect of victory, a truce was signed.	
Korzybski	Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), American scientist and writer; developed the subject of general semantics, a methodology that attempts to improve human behavior through a critical use of words and symbols.	
Kraepelin	Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), German psychiatrist who developed a system of psychiatric classification.	
Krapunkin	a made-up name for a place.	
Kremlin	a fortress in central Moscow that contains the central offices of the government of the Soviet Union. The term Kremlin is also used figuratively to mean the Soviet government.	
Krishnamurti	literature of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), Hindu philosopher, author and religious figure of the 20th century. He wrote many books, including one called Commentaries on Living.	
kropotnick, stake my bottom	be absolutely assured; count on it. A variation of the expression bet (one's) bottom dollar. Kropotnick is a made-up name for a currency.	
kropotnik, bet your bottom	be absolutely assured; count on it. A variation of bet your bottom dollar. Kropotnik is a made-up name for a currency.	
Kruegers	reference to people like Felix Krueger (1874-1948), German philosopher and psychologist. He wrote a book called Relationships of Experimental Phonetics to Psychology in 1907.	
Krupas	those regarded as talented drummers, like Gene Krupa (19091973), a famous Polish-American jazz drummer.	
L	abbreviation for Location.	
La Jolla	a section of San Diego, a city in Southern California, United States.	
Laborite	of the Labor Party, in Great Britain, a major political party organized to protect and further the rights of workers. Originally formed as the Labor Representation Committee in 1900 it was renamed the Labor Party in 1906. Holding mildly socialist policies it rose quickly to power through the 30s and 40s. It caused increased nationalization of industry and enacted many social reforms, including a national health service. At the time of this lecture it was the leading political party in Britain.	
laborites	supporters of the Labor Party, a major British political party organized to protect and further the rights of workers.  Originally formed as the Labor Representation Committee in 1900, it was renamed the Labor Party in 1906.  Holding mildly socialist policies it rose quickly to power through the 1930s and 1940s.  It caused increased nationalization of industry and enacted many social reforms, including a national health service.  At the time of this lecture it was the leading political party in Britain.	
Ladies' Aid Society	a made‑up name for a society.	
Land camera	a folding-type camera, capable of producing positive prints within one minute after the picture has been snapped.  It was invented in 1947 by Edwin Herbert Land, an American inventor.	
land of the living	(informal) the condition of being able or willing to take part in ordinary activities that a person returns to after sleep, an illness, period of being alone, etc.	
Landladies' Association	a made-up name for an association.	
lap, in (one's)	within (one's) reach or power.	
Las Palmas	the largest city in and a major port of the Canary Islands (a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic Ocean, near the northwest coast of Africa).	
Las Vegas	a city in southeast Nevada in the western United States which abounds in bars, hotels, gambling and nightclubs.	
law of averages	the idea that you can't win all the time or lose all the time.	
law of gravity	the law that every two particles of matter in the universe attract each other with a force that is based on their masses and the distance between them. Also called law of gravitation.	
Lawrence	D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author of the twentieth century. Two of his best-regarded works are Sons and Lovers and Women in Love. Lawrence is known for his frank treatment of sex. His novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned as obscene in both Britain and the United States. In the US the ban was appealed to and overruled by the Supreme Court.	
Lawrence	a city in eastern Kansas, USA.	
le mission	(French) the mission.	
Lead Kindly Light	a hymn by John Henry Newman (1801-1890), an English clergyman. In 1832 Newman toured Italy and felt an inadequacy in the Anglican Church. He became determined to rescue the Church from laxity and on his way home to England wrote Lead Kindly Light as a statement of his new devotion.	
lead-pipe cinch	(slang) a doubly sure or doubly easy thing. Lead pipe refers to a Midwestern and western US form of galvanized iron pipe (which looks as if it were lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a short length of this so-called lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (lead-pipe) cinched.	
lead-pipe crash	(slang) a doubly sure failure. A Variation of the phrase lead-pipe cinch, a doubly sure or doubly easy thing. Lead pipe refers to a midwestern and western US form of galvanized iron pipe (which looks as if it were lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a short length of this so-called lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (lead-pipe) cinched.	
lead-pipe question	(slang) a variation of the phrase lead-pipe cinch, a doubly sure or doubly easy thing. Lead pipe refers to a midwestern and western US form of galvanised iron pipe (which looks as if it were lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a short length of this so-called lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (lead-pipe) cinched.	
leap full-armed from the breath of somebody’s hope	a reference to the fable from Roman mythology of the origin of Minerva, goddess of wisdom, arts, industries and prudent warfare, who was said to have sprung, full-grown and dressed in armor, from the forehead of Jove, her father.	
learnedology	a coined word for a subject from learned, full of knowledge or learning; scholarly, and -ology, science, theory or doctrine of.	
Leavenworth	a federal and military prison located in Leavenworth, a city in northeast Kansas, US.	
Lebels	rifles, of a type invented by Nicolas Lebel (1838-1891), a French army officer in 1886. The French 1886 Lebel was one of the best-known rifles ever turned out for military use as it was the first rifle of its type to use the then new smokeless powder.	
Lee-Enfield	a rifle of a type invented by Scottish-born American James Paris Lee (1831-1904).  The Lee-Enfield rifle was adopted (1904) by Great Britain for both infantry and cavalry.	
Lee-Enfields	rifles, of a type invented by Scottish-born American James Paris Lee (1831-1904). The Lee-Enfield rifle was adopted (1904) by Great Britain for both infantry and cavalry.	
left and right	in or from every direction; all around; on all sides.
(colloquial) everywhere; to an extreme degree.	
leg up	(colloquial) an advance.	
leg up, a	(slang) at an advantage.	
Leipzig	a city in Germany; the location of Leipzig University, where Wilhelm Wundt and others developed "modern" psychology.
See also Wundt in this glossary.	
Leipzig University	a university in Leipzig, Germany, where Wilhelm Wundt and others developed "modern" psychology.
See also Wundt in this glossary.	
Lenin	Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924), a Russian revolutionary leader of the early twentieth century, highly honored in the Soviet Union as the founder of the modern Soviet state. Lenin, a founder of the Bolshevik party, contributed much to the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin held that a dedicated group of intellectuals had to spearhead the revolution. He became chief of government of the Soviet Union after the revolution and served until his death in 1924.	
lepidus guk 652	a made-up name for an injectable solution.	
leukosis, upper	a humorously coined name for a disease, from Meiosis, (same as leukemia) a disease in which too many white corpuscles are formed.	
Lewis and Clark	Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (17701838), two Americans who made a journey during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, to explore the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond that. The expedition started from St. Louis, Missouri, and moved up the Missouri River and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. The information that Lewis and Clark gathered was of great help in the settlement of the West.	
Lewis machine guns	light machine guns used in World Wars I and II, named after their developer, US Colonel Isaac N. Lewis.	
libido	(psychoanalysis) sexual instinct or sexual drive.	
libido theory	a theory originated in 1894 by Sigmund Freud which states that all life impulses and behaviors are sex-motivated. 
See also Freud in this glossary.	
Library of Congress	the largest library in the United States, located in Washington, DC and maintained largely by federal appropriations (money set aside for this use).  Its original purpose was to provide research facilities for members of Congress; today it serves the public as well.  Most copyrighted publications are cataloged by the Library of Congress, whose classification system is used by major libraries around the country.  Its collection of printed material is one of the largest in the world.	
lick and a promise	a hasty job; a cursory performance. From the notion that one does one lick or stroke of what is appropriate, and promises to do the rest.	
licked	(colloquial) overcome or defeated, as in a fight, game or contest.	
lid	(colloquial) a curb or restraint.	
lid off, taking the	(informal) removing the secrecy from (something); revealing the truth about (an affair).	
lid, under the	(slang) held back or held out of sight.	
life in (one's) hands, taking (one's)	(informal) facing great danger or taking a great risk.	
Life magazine	a publication that contains many photographs and articles of current activities. It was started by Henry Luce, who was the cofounder of Time magazine.
See also Time in this glossary.	
life of (one), for the	(colloquial) true as (one) is alive; even if (one's) life depended on it.	
light colonel	(military slang) a lieutenant colonel. Now, you could say eventually he will become a lieutenant colonel, a light colonel, by the selection system.	
light of day, the	public view.	
lightning often strikes	a humorous reference to the saying lightning never strikes in the same place twice, meaning the same accident or misfortune cannot happen twice to the same person in the same situation (used when speaking of something unusual, especially something bad).	
lights begin to dawn	(slang) something begins to come clear or be understood.	
lilies of France	coined phrase referring to the fleur-de-lis (French: flower of the lily), adopted by the royal house of France as its emblem in the twelfth century. It remained the official coat of arms of France until the French Revolution of 1830.	
Lilly	Eli Lilly and Company, a major US pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in 1876 which produces and distributes a variety of medical drugs as well as highly dangerous and destructive ”psychiatric” drugs.	
Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president of the United States during the American Civil War. He was assassinated several days after the surrender of the Confederate States.
See also Civil War and Confederacy in this glossary.
a car manufactured by Lincoln Motor Company, a US firm founded in 1917.	
Lincoln car	a car manufactured by Lincoln Motor Company, a US firm founded in 1917.	
line lighting	a distinctly dramatic profile lighting style in which the outline is highlighted, the rest of the face being in shadow except for the fill and hair light.
See also fill in this glossary.	
line, laying it on the	(colloquial) speaking openly or frankly about something; giving the information required.	
lineup	an arrangement of persons or things in or as in a line.	
lingua spacia	a coined phrase meaning the language of space. Lingua means a language or "lingo," and spacia is a humorously Latinized version of "space."	
lip mover	(slang) a dull and stupid person. From the habit of uneducated or dull people of moving their lips while reading to themselves.	
lip service	insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only.	
Listerine	(trademark) a brand of antiseptic mouthwash.	
litten	(poetic) lighted.	
Little Bide-a-Wee Space Jockey Society	a made-up name for a space society.	
little people	(folklore and legend) fairies, diminutive supernatural beings of human shape, with magical powers, such as brownies, dwarfs, elves, gnomes, goblins, leprechauns and pixies.	
Little Red Riding-Hood	a nursery tale in which a little girl bringing a present to her grandmother is devoured by a wolf who has disguised himself in the old lady's ruffled nightcap. The brothers Grimm (two German authors of the early nineteenth century, remembered mostly for their collection of fairy tales) added a happy ending to the tale: a huntsman slits open the wolf and restores the child and her grandmother to life.	
Little Rock	the capital of and largest city in Arkansas, United States.  In 1957, federal troops were sent into Little Rock to enforce the United States Supreme Court ruling of a trial against racial segregation in public schools.	
living daylights out of	completely or thoroughly. From the common phrase beat the living daylights out of, meaning "to defeat or thrash thoroughly." This portion of the phrase is often used in similar constructions when referring to handling or doing something completely.	
living pants off, the	completely or thoroughly. A Variation of the common phrase beat the living daylights out of, meaning "to defeat or thrash thoroughly," this portion of the phrase is often used in similar constructions when referring to handling or doing something completely.	
Lloyd's	of or from Lloyd's, a huge insurance corporation based in London, England. Incorporated in 1871, it deals in insurance of almost every kind, but is most noted for its insurance of oceangoing vessels.	
lo and behold	look and see (used as an expression of great surprise).	
Loch Ness	a lake in northwestern Scotland well known for being the home of the "Loch Ness Monster," a supposed prehistoric monster, described as 30 feet long with two humps, a snake-like head at the end of a long neck and two flippers about the middle of the body, first sighted in April 1933.	
Locke	John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher who argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to "write" on it.	
locus aberratus	a coined phrase meaning center or source of aberration. Locus is Latin for "a place," and aberratus is a humorously Latinized form of "aberration."	
Lodge, Henry Cabot	Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) US Senator from Massachusetts (1937-1944, 1947-1953). He served in the United States Army prior to being elected to the Senate, and favored a United States policy of nonentanglement in foreign quarrels, combined with a strong army and navy.	
logique	(French) logic	
lolly	(British informal) a treat; something that gives great pleasure.	
Lombovia	a made-up name for a place.	
London	the capital of the United Kingdom. Located in southeast England on the Thames River.	
London Bridge	the most famous bridge in London, England.  bridge built across the Thames river River between 1825 and 1831 and has a length of 928 feet.	
London County co Council	the administrative government body for the County of London, England.	
London Palladium Theater	a theater in London, England. From 187ll887 it was used solely for the performances of circuses. It was reconstructed and opened as a music hall in 1910 and has been used mainly for musicals since that time.	
long and the short of, the	all that needs to be said; the basic fact; the point.	
Long John Silver	a character from the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who joins with two men in hiring a ship to search for buried treasure. Among the ship's crew are the pirate Long John Silver and his men, who are after the treasure for themselves. With considerable courage and the aid of his friends, Jim foils their plans and gains the treasure.	
Long John television program	the "Long John Nebel Talk Show." A television program airing in New York in the early 1960s, hosted by Long John Nebel.	
long pig	human flesh as food for cannibals.	
longbow, drawing a	exaggerating.  A longbow is a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries.  It is said that a good archer could hit between the fingers of a man's hand at a considerable distance, and could propel his arrow a mile.  The tales told about longbow exploits fully justify the application of the phrase.	
longbow, stringing a	exaggerating. A longbow is a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries. It is said that a good archer could hit between the fingers of a man's hand at a considerable distance, and could propel his arrow a mile. The tales told about longbow exploits fully justify the application of the phrase.	
longshore	existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport.  A Variation of alongshore.	
longshore crew	crew who work on the waterfront loading and unloading ships.	
look‑a‑here	(colloquial) an everyday‑speech expression meaning simply "look here."	
look-a-here	(colloquial) an everyday-speech expression meaning simply "look here."	
look-a-there	an everyday-speech expression meaning simply "look there."	
looky-here	an everyday-speech expression meaning simply "look here."	
loony bin	(informal) an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.	
loop, thrown (something) for a	(slang) thrown (something) into a state of confusion or shock.	
loop, thrown for a	(slang) thrown into a state of confusion or shock.	
loopiness	(slang) craziness.	
loopy	(slang) crazy.	
Lord Chief Justice	the chief judge of the supreme court of common law in England.	
Lord knows	(informal) "maybe God knows but I don't know and no one else knows." (Usually used to express the speaker's inability to understand or foresee something)	
Lord Mayor	the chief magistrate of certain English, Welsh, Irish and Australian cities and boroughs.	
Los Angeles	a city and seaport on the southwest coast of California.	
Los Angeles Foundation	Los Angeles Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation established in the 1950s with the purpose of forwarding Dianetics technology.	
Lot	the nephew of Abraham (first ancestor of the Hebrews and a founder of Israel) who, warned by two angels, fled from the doomed city of Sodom.
See also Sodom and Gomorrah in this glossary.	
love thy neighbor	an excerpt from the Bible passage	
Lower Bugga-Wugga Booga-Woog	a made-up name for a place.	
Lowestoft	a city in east England, on the North Sea, noted for shipbuilding and fisheries, and as a yachting center and seaside resort.	
Loyola University	a university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1870. It is run by the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church and is a training school for Jesuits.
See also Chicago in this glossary.	
L-ring		
Lubyanka Prison	a prison in Moscow, USSR.	
Lucas	the name of a British company which produces automotive electrical equipment.	
Lucretius	(98?-55 B.C.) Roman poet who was the author of the unfinished On the Nature of Things, a didactic poem in six books, setting forth in outline a complete science of the universe. The purpose of the work was to prove, by investigating the nature of the world in which man lives, that all things-including man-operate according to their own laws and are not in any way influenced by supernatural powers.	
lumbago	backache, especially in the lower back.	
Lumbago Iron Works	a humorously made-up name for a company, coined from lumbago meaning backache, especially in the lower back.	
Lumbago, West Queensland	a made-up name for a place, coined from lumbago, backache, especially in the lower back, and Queensland, the northeastern state of Australia.	
lumbo	a made-up name for a body part.	
lumbosis	a made-up name for a disease, coined by LRH and used humorously in many of his lectures and writings.	
lumectomy	a made-up name for an operation.	
lunk	dull or stupid	
lunkhead	(slang) a dull or stupid person.	
lurky	a contraction of murky, dark or gloomy.	
Luthers, Martin	those regarded as people who have broken away from the church like Martin Luther (1483-1546), German religious leader who broke away from the Roman Catholic church and founded Protestantism as a result of his disagreements with certain Catholic practices and beliefs.	
Lycoming	an aircraft-engine manufacturer, now called Avco Lycoming.	
Lycurgus	a Spartan lawgiver of about the 9th century B.C. Traditionally he was the author of the rigid social code by which the aristocracy of the ancient Greek city-state Sparta was kept apart from the other inhabitants, and of the system of military education by which from the ages of 6 to 20 the strictest obedience, self-discipline and rigorous training were imposed on all Spartan boys.	
M to the gup-gup squared or the rippety-rip-bop to the tenth power		
M1	the main motorway (freeway) from London to the north of England.	
Mabeline	a made-up name.	
Mac	(slang) fellow: used as a general term of address for a man or boy.	
MacArthur	Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) US general; supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific during World War II and of United Nations forces in Korea (1950-1951).  He was removed as a commander during the Korean War by President Truman.
See also Truman in this glossary.	
Macduff	a character in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is accosted by three mysterious witches and hailed as the future king of Scotland. At the urging of his wife he murders the king (Duncan) and is then proclaimed king himself Macduff, Macbeth's former friend, turns against him after the murder and joins Duncan's son in raising an army to unseat him. In the last scene of the play Macduff challenges Macbeth to fight; one part of Macbeth's response is "Lay on Macduf£" This is a well-known and often quoted line from the play.	
mace	a unit of Chinese money worth about fourteen US cents. They used to in the old days	
MacFadden, Bernarr	(1868-1955), an American publisher. At one time MacFadden published over a dozen magazines, including True Romances, True Experiences, Lose and Romance, Liberty, True Detective Mysteries and others.	
Mack truck	a large, strong tractor (a truck with a driver's cab and no body, for hauling one or more trailers) built by the Mack Truck Company.	
mackerel, dead	(slang) a thing that is absolutely lifeless.	
mackerel, dead as a	(slang) absolutely lifeless.	
mackerel, deader than a	(slang) absolutely lifeless.	
mackerels, deader than	(slang) absolutely lifeless.	
Macmillan Company	a large book publishing company established in 1869 by Alexander Macmillan (1818-1896).	
Macy's	a large American department store chain owned by R.H. Macy and Company, based in New York City, New York. It has branches throughout 15 states and the stores are well known for their unusual window dressings.	
mad as hops	(colloquial) a variation of hopping mad, very angry.	
mad dog	fanatic or unreasonably zealous in beliefs, opinions or pursuits; literally, acting like a mad dog (a dog with rabies).	
mad, like	(colloquial) very much, hard, fast, etc.	
made in the shade, have got it	(slang) are certain of success; have all conditions favorable to one's own success. A variation of have it made.	
Mademoiselle	a women's fashion magazine.	
Madison Avenue	a street in New York City which is the locale of the major advertising agencies of America.	
magic eye	one of a variety of mechanical or electronic devices designed to check consistency in manufacturing, detect trouble or danger, activate traffic signals, etc.	
magic lantern	an early type of projector for showing slides on a screen.	
magic universe	one of the magic periods of the time track. For example, in this universe one finds levitation, or a person swinging along riding a goose which has a wingspread of sixty feet.	
Magna Carta	a list of rights and privileges that King John of England signed under pressure from English noblemen in 1215. It established the principles that the king could not levy taxes without consent of his legislature, or Parliament, and that no free man in England could be deprived of liberty or property except through a trial or other legal process.	
mails must get through, the	reference to the motto of the United States postal service. The exact maxim is: ,,Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."	
main chance	(figurative) the venture or course of action from which most is hoped; the likeliest course to obtain success.	
Main Street	the principal street of any small town.	
mains	the principal conductors for conveying electricity; the public electricity supply.
(photography) short for mainlights: floodlights (lamps that casts a broad beam of bright light) used as the main source of illumination for a photograph.	
majeure	(French) major.	
make a monkey out of	(informal) to make (someone) look foolish.	
make and break	the factor determining success or failure.	
make and break point	the point which brings either success or failure.	
make-break point	the point which brings either success or failure.	
making hay	(slang) profiting from or taking advantage of something while one has the chance, especially having a good time while one can. A variation of the phrase make hay while the sun shines.	
malauditing	a coined word denoting out-tech auditing, from, mal-, bad;	
Mamie	a made-up name for a person.	
mammy act	an allusion to the 1927 movie, "The Jazz Singer," in which the star, Al Jolson, sang the song "Mammy," kneeling on one knee with his arms outstretched in a pleading manner.	
mammy's	(southern US dialect) mamma's (mother's).	
man on the street	the ordinary citizen.	
Manchester	an industrial city in northwest England.	
manic	abnormal excitability, exaggerated feeling of well-being, flight of ideas, excessive activity, etc.	
manic-depressive	an individual who, because of a phrase or an effort or a restimulation—no more and no less—climbs way up the Tone Scale, hits a small peak and then dives off it again and goes on with the engram.
(psychiatry) a person having a mental disorder marked by alternating extremes of excitement and depression.	
Manitowoc, Wisconsin	a town in eastern Wisconsin, USA.	
Mannlichers	rifles, of a type invented by Ferdinand Mannlicher (18481904), Austrian engineer known for his inventions in small arms.	
many are called and few are chosen	a humorous reference to a passage from the Bible said by Jesus, suggesting that salvation is difficult to attain.	
Marble Arch	a monument at the northeast corner of Hyde Park. It was built by King George IV for Buckingham Palace (the official residence in London of British sovereigns) and moved to its present location in 1851.
See also Hyde Park in this glossary.	
Marcab	of the Marcab Confederacy: various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000 years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships—a civilization which looks almost an exact duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilization.	
Marcab Confederacy	various planets united into a very vast civilisation which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000 years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships—a civilisation which looks almost an exact duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilization.	
Marcabian	of the Marcab Confederacy.
See Marcab Confederacy in this glossary.	
Marcabian	of or having to do with the Marcab Confederacy, various planets united into a very vast civilisation which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000 years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships—a civilization which looks almost an exact duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilisation.	
Marconi	short for the Marconi Telegraph Company, founded in 1897 by Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), an Italian inventor and electrical engineer. Marconi's most famous invention is the wireless telegraph, the forerunner of present-day radio, which he developed in the 1890a The Marconi Telegraph Company played a major part in the development of radio, television and electronics.	
Maria, hell and	(slang) an alteration of the phrase merry hell, a severe rebuke or punishment.	
Marie	Marie Alexandra Victoria (1875-1938), an English noblewoman who became queen of Romania through her marriage to Prince Ferdinand, afterwards king of Romania.  She took a great interest in the development of her adoptive country.  Red Cross and charity organizations were formed at her initiative and, as a Red Cross nurse during the World War, she looked after the wounded in hospitals and ambulances up to the firing line.  Queen Marie devoted much of her time to writing and while traveling wrote extensively for the American and other press.	
Marilyn	a staff member in Washington, DC, at the time of the lecture.	
Mark 14	a made-up name for a type of spaceship.	
Mark 18	a made-up name for a type of spaceship.	
Mark 61 space vessel	a made-up name for a spaceship.	
Mark Sixteen	a made-up name for a model of racing car.	
Mark VI-type chair	a made-up name for a type of chair.	
Market Street	a major street in downtown San Francisco, California.	
Marriage Counselors Society	a made-up name for a society.	
Mars, Gates of	the name of a between-lives implant station.	
Marx, Karl	(1818‑1883) German political philosopher. Regarded by some as founder of modern socialism. The work he is most known for is The Communist Manifesto in which he states that the evils of capitalist society cannot be abolished by reform, but only by the destruction of the whole capitalist economy and establishment of a new classless society.	
Marxism	the doctrines of Karl Marx (1818-1883)	
Marxist	adhering to the doctrines of Karl Marx (1818-1883)	
Mary Sue	Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of L. Ron Hubbard.	
Masefield, John	(1878-1967), English poet, dramatist and novelist. He is best known for his sea poems. He also wrote journalism, literary criticism, and military and nautical history.	
masking disk	a partial covering placed in front of the camera lens to reduce or change the shape of the image.	
Mason and Dixon line	part of the boundary between the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland (eastern US) established by the English astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the 1760s.	
Mason, thirty‑third degree	a high‑ranking member of the worldwide secret society of Freemasons, which has as its principles brotherliness, charity, and mutual aid. In its internal organization, the working of Freemasonry involves a system of symbolic ritual; the members are classified in numerous degrees which can only be attained after passing a prescribed ordeal or examination, as a test of proficieney.	
mass equals mc	a reference to a mathematical equation derived by Albert Einstein as part of the general theory of relativity. The equation is properly stated E=mc2, or energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared (multiplied by itself).
See also theory of relativity in this glossary.	
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	a leading technical school of university level, with schools of architecture, engineering and science.  It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.	
mat, go to the	contend (with someone) over a matter at issue.	
Mata Hari	a seductive, double-dealing woman; someone like Mata Hari (1876-1917), a dancer on the French stage and a spy who worked for both the French and the Germans during World War I. Her real name was Gertrud Margarete Zelle. The French executed her in 1917.	
matapad	a made‑up word.	
Mather, Cotton	(1663-1728) American scholar and religious leader of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.  A prominent Massachusetts Puritan, he urged the suppression of witchcraft and supported the Salem witch trials (trials held in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 that led to the execution of twenty people for allegedly practicing witchcraft).	
Mathison	Volney Mathison, an early Dianeticist who, after listening to a lecture by LRH outlining the equipment and circuits necessary to detect mental charge, built the first E-Meter in 1951, the Model B. There were various other models of E-Meters built by Mathison which were used by auditors. The E-Series in 1954 was his last model as his meters had become too complex to be workable.
a meter produced by Volney Mathison.	
Mathison, Volney	See Mathison in this glossary.	
matin	(French) morning.	
mating	(slang) moving speedily.	
Matisse	Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a French painter. His paintings were extremely bright-colored still lifes, seascapes and views of Paris.	
Matthew Walker	a type of decorative knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.	
Mayne	Edna Mayne van Vogt, first wife of A.E. van Vogt.
See also van Vogt in this glossary.	
Mayo brothers	William James (1861‑1939) and Charles Mayo (1865‑1939), American surgeons. From a small clinic opened by their father in the state of New York, United States, the brothers developed the internationallyknown Mayo Clinic.	
Mayo Clinic	a private medical center in Rochester, Minnesota. It was established in 1905 by two brothers, William James (1861‑1939) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865‑1939) as a surgical clinic, later evolving to include both medical and surgical treatment.	
MC	a humorous Variation of Einstein's equation of energy: E = mc', the total amount of energy (E) locked into a mass (m) is equal to m multiplied by the square of the velocity of light (c).  
See also Einstein in this glossary.	
McCloud	a made-up name for a person.	
McCoy	the genuine article; the person or thing as represented.  From the phrase the real McCoy, which originated in Scotland as the real Mackay and referred to people and things of the highest quality, and in particular to a brand of whiskey.  Later, in America, the phrase was used in reference to an outstanding boxer by the name of McCoy, retaining its basic meaning of "the real thing."	
McGuffey's Readers	a series of books prepared principally by William H. McGuffey (1800-1873), a midwestern teacher, and designed to teach reading to schoolchildren.  The series began in the 1830s.  It was widely used in the nineteenth century, and is still used in some schools today.	
me	(dialect) my.	
mea culpa	(Latin) my fault, my blame. Used jokingly as a body part with reference to the medical practice of using Latin words to refer to body parts.	
measuring up	being capable or qualified.	
meatus	a passage or opening of the body such as of the nose or ears.	
Meccano set	(trademark) a set of metal pieces, nuts, bolts, etc., and tools, specially designed for constructing small models of buildings, machines or other engineering apparatus.	
mechanics	the technical aspect or working part; mechanism; structure.	
mechanism	a system or means for doing something; especially, a physical or mental process, whether conscious or unconscious, by which some result is produced, e.g. a defense mechanism.	
medicalosis	a made-up name for an illness. From medical, and -osis, a suffix meaning an abnormal or diseased condition.	
medico	(slang) a doctor.	
medulla oblongata	the lowest part of the brain, at the top end of the spinal cord. Used humorously in this lecture.	
megakilotron	a coined word from megaton, the explosive force of a million tons of TNT; a unit for measuring the power of thermonuclear weapons, and kilo, thousand. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
megatron	an alteration of megaton, the explosive force of a million tons of TNT; a unit for measuring the power of thermonuclear weapons.	
mein kampfing	Reference to Mein Kampf ("My Struggle" in German), the title of an autobiographical book written in 1924 by Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany from 1933-1945). It is humorously used to refer to German sentence structure which differs from English and sounds somewhat confusing when literally translated.	
Mein Kempf	humorous mispronunciation of Mein Kampf, the title of an autobiographical book written by Adolf Hitler in 1924, in which he revealed his program for political action in Germany. Mein Kampf is German for "My Battle" or "My Struggle."
See also Hitler in this glossary.	
Melbourne	a Scientology organization in Melbourne, Australia, a seaport and the capital of Victoria state.	
Melbourne ACC	short for First Melbourne Advanced Clinical Course, given in Melbourne, Australia by L. Ron Hubbard from 9 through 30 November 1959.	
mellifluous	sweetly or smoothly flowing.	
Mendel	Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), Austrian monk noted for his experimental work on heredity. From 1843 to 1868 he conducted experiments, chiefly on garden peas and involving a controlled pollination technique and a careful statistical analysis of his results, that produced the first accurate and scientific explanation for hybridization. Menders conclusions have become the basic tenets of genetics and a notable influence in plant and animal breeding	
Menninger	Karl Menninger (1893-1983), American psychiatrist, who with his father founded the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas in 1920.	
Mercedes	
a car manufactured by the German firm Mercedes-Benz which is well-known for its production of high-quality sedans and racing cars.	
Mercedes-Benz 1898 model	a car manufactured in 1898 by the German firm Mercedes-Benz (then known only as "Benz").  It was a two-seater with three forward speeds and reverse and could attain a speed of 22 mph.	
Mercury	the name of a type of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.	
Merlin	a magician in the legends of King Arthur and Celtic myth who was the force behind Arthur's achievement of the throne and otherwise instructed him, insuring his continuing invincibility and future greatness as king He performed such feats as calling dragons out of the ground, predicting the future into the 1100s and removing the great stones of Stonehenge from Ireland to Amesbury (the current site of Stonehenge, in England on the Avon River) by his magic.	
merreilleux	(French) marvelous, wonderful.	
merveilleuse	(French) wonderful; marvelous.	
mescus	a made-up word.	
meself	(dialect) myself	
Mesmer	Fredrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian physician after whom mesmerism was named. Mesmerism is the doctrine or system according to which a hypnotic state, usually accompanied by insensibility to pain and muscular rigidity, can be induced by an influence (at first known as "animal magnetism") exercised by an operator over the will and nervous system of the patient.	
mess sergeant	an officer responsible for the business of feeding a military or ship's company.	
Messana	an earlier name of the current Messina, a seaport in northeast Sicily. It was the site of the First Punic War (the first of three wars between Carthage, an ancient city in North Africa, and Rome during the third and second centuries B.C.). The war was fought for the possession of Sicily. Carthage was finally defeated after twenty-three years of warfare and Sicily became the first of the Roman provinces.
See also Punic Wars in this glossary.	
metabisulphite	short for potassium metabisulphite, a chemical used in developing photographs.	
methinks	(archaic) it seems to me.	
metrazol	(medicine) a chemical substance used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant. It is regarded as valuable in schizophrenia in combination with insulin and curare (a medicine for spasms or to relax muscles, as during surgery).	
Metropolitan Museum	short for Metropolitan Museum of Art; an art museum located in New York, housing the largest collection of art in the United States.	
Miami Beach Hotel	a made-up name for a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.	
Michelangelo	Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), an Italian painter, sculptor and architect from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He is considered one of the greatest artists of all time.	
mickey	(slang) a substance added to a drink to make the drinker unconscious. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
microamp	(electricity) one millionth of an ampere (a unit for measuring the strength of an electric current).	
microjilts	a made‑up word for an electronic term.	
micromilli-vernier	measuring to a one-billionth part of a specified unit (a micromilli), as done by a device that makes possible a finer setting of a tool or measuring instrument (a vernier).	
Middle Ages	the period of European history between ancient and modern times, A.D. 476-ca. 1450. It began with the fall of Rome in the fifth century and ended with the Renaissance. The Middle Ages are associated with many beliefs and practices that now seem out of date.	
middle, all ways from the	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
middle, both ends from the	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
middle, both ways from the	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
middle, eight dozen ways from the	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
middle, eight ways for the	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
middle, eighteen dozen ways from the	(slang) in every possible manner, direction, etc.	
midnight-dawn and the midnight-dawn express, burning the	a variation of the expression burn the midnight oil, meaning to stay awake late at night to work or study.	
migrosis	a made-up name for an illness.	
Mike	a Theory Instructor on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
militruce	a small French cannon.	
millennia	periods of one thousand years.	
milliner	a person who designs, makes or sells hats for women.	
millisecond	a measurement of one-thousandth of a second.	
Miltonishly	of or like the style of John Milton (1608-1674), an English poet who wrote poems in Latin and English. His prose is complex, highly rhetorical, with passages of great power.	
mimeographing	copying off using a mimeograph, a printing device, commonly used in offices, in which a waxed paper stencil bearing text that has been cut by a typewriter, or text or a drawing done by hand with a stylus (a pointed tool for marking), is fastened to a drum which is inked on the inside so that the ink penetrates the cut areas and is deposited on a new sheet of paper with each revolution of the drum.	
minds, making up their own	deciding for themselves; forming an opinion or decision for themselves.	
mineure	(French) minor.	
mired	(photography) a unit for measuring the relative color consistency of lamps and filters.	
Mirror group	reference to the Daily Mirror Newspaper, Ltd., a British company which owns and controls a chain of newspapers.	
mischief, like the	a Variation of like mad.
See mad, like in this glossary.	
Miss America	the title given to the winner of the "Miss America Beauty Pageant," a beauty contest held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, US, each year. It was started in 1921 with the purpose of attracting visitors to the city after the tourist season had ended.	
missed the freight train	(colloquial) a variation of the phrase missed the boat, lost an opportunity; failed.	
Mississippi River	the principal river of the United States which flows a distance of 2,330 miles from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.	
Missouri corn	hackneyed or old-fashioned behavior, characteristic of the state of Missouri in the US. Missouri extends into an agricultural area where much corn (the crop) is raised. The behavior of people in such rural areas has been termed "corn."	
MIT	abbreviation for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a leading technical school of university level, with schools of architecture, engineering and science. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.	
mithed	a humorous "archaic" form of missed.	
mither	(Scotland and North England) mother.	
Mitsubishi	a reference to a bomber manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (a Japanese company) and used in World War II.	
Mitsuyu, Kobi	a made-up name for a Japanese director.	
Mitty, Walter	a character from the story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, by James Thurber (1894-1961).  Mitty is a repressed, timid, shrinking and apologetic man who daydreams of doing great things.	
Mixter	Colonel George W. Mixter (1876-1947), US Army Air Service. Author of Primer of Navigation.	
mo’	(dialect) more.	
Model T Ford	an old car produced in the USA which initially appeared in 1908.  It was produced by the Ford Motor Company and was their first car made with left-hand steering. It sold for 260 dollars at the time and is now a collector's item.	
Model T, 1922, Mathison	a made-up name for a model of E-Meter.
See also Model T Ford and Mathison in this glossary.	
Model-T Ford	an old car produced in the USA which initially appeared in 1908. It was produced by the Ford Motor Company and was their first car made with left-hand steering. It sold for 260 dollars at the time and is now a collector's item.	
Modern Photography	the name of a monthly photography magazine first published in 1937.	
Mods	(British slang) a group of Teenagers who wore very fine or stylish clothes and were likely to have motor scooters.  They were the rivals of the "Rockers." Several times during 1964 members of these groups descended in large numbers on several British coastal resorts, roaming about in packs, damaging cafés and municipal furniture, alarming bystanders and lapsing into gang fights.  The police made a number of arrests and it became a subject of national concern.
See also Rockers in this glossary.	
Mohammedan	of the Islam religion, founded by Mohammed. Adherents to Islam are called Moslems and have the fundamental belief that there is only one God and Mohammed is his prophet.	
Mojave Desert	an area of low, barren mountains and flat valleys in southern California.	
Molech	(Bible) an ancient god of the Phoenicians, etc., to whom children were sacrificed by burning 	
Moloch	a fire god of ancient times whose worship was marked by the sacrifice of children as burnt offerings, especially first-born males, by their parents.	
Mona Lisa	a painting by Italian painter, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), of a woman with a mysterious smile.  It is one of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.
. See also da Vinci, Leonardo in this glossary.	
Monet	Claude Monet (1840-1926), French painter and one of the founders and leading representatives of impressionism.  Today Monet is regarded as one of the greatest of all landscape painters.	
money, you just pays your	(colloquial) what will happen is a matter of chance or luck. A variation of the phrase you pays your money and you takes your choice, suggesting that when faced with a choice between two similar possibilities or alternatives, one might just as well rely on luck. The phrase comes from a rhyme used by English traders with market stalls: "Whatever you please my little dears: You pays your money and you takes your choice. You pays your money and what  you sees is A cow or a donkey just as you pleases."	
monkey (something) up	(slang) tinker or tamper with (something); attempt to use or repair (something).	
monkey Tricks	(colloquial) mischievous, ill-natured or deceitful actions.	
monkeyed-up	meddled with or messed around with.	
monkeying around	(slang) working or doing something in an irregular or unplanned way; tinkering	
monocatharsis	a humorously coined word from mono-, a prefix meaning one, alone, single, and catharsis, (psychiatry) the relieving of fears, problems etc., by bringing them to the conscious mind.	
monocell	an organism composed of a single cell.	
monocentric	a coined word used in the lecture in the sense of "selfcentered." From mono-, a prefix meaning "one; single; alone," and centric, "pertaining to or situated at the center."	
monocentrically	a coined word used in the lecture in the sense of "selfcenteredly." From mono-, a prefix meaning "one; single; alone," and centric, "pertaining to or situated at the center."	
monomanic	characterized by an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject or the like.	
monowheel	having only one wheel.	
Monroe, Marilyn	(1926-1962), an American actress who starred in films during the middle of the twentieth century and became the leading sex symbol of the 1950s.  On the 5th of August 1962 she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. 
[Definition of Hollywood] A section of Los Angeles, California, once the site of many US film studios.	
Mont Blanc	a mountain in southwest Europe, on the boundary between France and Italy. It is the highest peak in the Alps at 15,781 feet.	
Monterey	a commercial city in western California.	
moon, grabbing at the	going for everything or nothing; making an all-out effort, no-holds-barred attempt.	
moon, man in the	(informal) the fancied semblance of a man (or a man's face) in the disk of the moon. Used in the proverbial phrase no more than the man in the moon, meaning "no more than something that is completely unreal or imaginary" or "not at all."	
moon, shoot the	go for everything or nothing; make an all-out effort, no-holds-barred attempt.	
moon, shooting the	go for everything or nothing; make an all-out effort, no-holds-barred attempt.	
moon, shot the	gone for everything or nothing; made an all-out effort, no-holds-barred attempt.	
moonshot	the launching of a rocket to the moon. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
mopery and dopery	a made-up term from mopery, a violation of a minor or imaginary  law, and dopery a humorous rhyming alteration of dopey meaning stupid; idiotic.	
Mormon church	the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints; a church founded by a 19th century American prophet named Joseph Smith (1805-1844). Mormonism is marked by the importance of spiritual revelation and stress on the interdependence of spiritual and temporal life.	
morning star	a club with a head set with spikes.	
Morris	reference to the Morris Mini-Minor, a small car introduced in 1959 which was manufactured by Morris Motors Ltd., based in Cowley, England.	
Morse	reference to Morse code, a system by which letters, numbers, punctuation and other signs are expressed by: dots, dashes and spaces; wigwags of a flag; long and short sounds, or flashes of light. Morse code is now used mainly in signaling and in some telegraphy.	
Moscow	the capital of the Soviet Union and largest city in the country, located in the west-central Soviet Union on the Moscow River. The Soviet Union's economic and cultural center.	
Moscow River	a reference to the Moskva River, a river 315 miles long that flows through Moscow, the capital city of Russia.	
Moses	Hebrew prophet and lawgiver who, according to the Biblical book of Exodus, led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and delivered God's law to the people.	
Moses, the brass tablets of	reference to the Ten Commandments (the divine law given in the Old Testament of the Bible) which were, per the Bible, engraved on tablets and given to the prophet Moses by God on Mount Sinai. Per the story, God shrouded the mountain in a cloud, and made thunder, lightning and trumpet blasts come forth from it. The commandments engraved on the tablets include such laws as: "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not steal," etc.	
Moss, Sterling	a well-known British race car driver of the 50s and 60s, thought of in his time as the uncrowned king of Grand Prix racing.	
Mossians	persons of the African Mossi tribe located in the northeastern parts of the Ivory Coast and Ghana (two countries in west Africa).	
mote	(slang) move speedily.	
mother complex	reference to a Freudian theory which supposes the unconscious desire of a young child for sexual intercourse with the parent of the opposite sex, especially between boys and their mothers.
See also Freud in this glossary.	
Mott Street	a made-up name for a street.	
Motts	a New York City staff member at the time of this lecture.	
Mount Ararat	a mountain in east Turkey, near the borders of Iran and the Soviet Union.	
Mount Button-Button	a made-up name for a mountain.	
Mount Everest	a mountain on the border of Tibet and Nepal in the central Himalayas. At over 29,000 feet, it is the highest peak in the world.	
Mount Punk	a made-up name for a mountain.	
Mount Rushmore	a mountain in South Dakota, US, in which the likenesses of four presidents’ heads are carved: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.	
Mountain, Mr.	a made-up name for a preclear.	
MRINA	abbreviation for Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects is a British professional organization of marine engineers involved in ship designing and planning.	
muck about	(slang) waste time; putter.	
mucking around	wasting time, puttering, going about aimlessly.	
mucky	(informal) in an untidy condition; messy.	
Mud Bayou	a made-up name for a place.	
mud pie	a molded mass of mud made by children in play.	
mud theory	the theory that man is an animal who arose as a result of a spontaneous accident from a "sea of ammonia" and, by the stages of development called "evolution," arrived at his present level of intelligence. The "man from mud" theory was taken by scientists from Egyptian demonology and foisted off on man as "modern thought." This theory is most recently attributed to Charles Darwin, 1809‑1882, English naturalist.	
Mud, Achmed	a made-up name for an author.	
mug	(slang) in a pouting mood; sullen; moping.
a made-up name for a god.  Humorously coined from mug, to assault, especially from behind and usually with intent to rob.	
mugwump	a person who acts independently, especially in politics.	
muldeberries	a made-up word for a type of berry.	
Munro, H.H.	Hector Hugo Munro (1870-1916), Scottish author born in Burma. His first volume of short stories, for which he became famous, was published in 1904 under his pseudonym, Saki.	
Murad cigarettes	a made-up name for a brand of cigarette.	
murder will out	the truth will come to light.	
Murders of the Rue Morgue character	reference to the murderer from the story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, written by Edgar Alan Poe in 1841. It is the story of a mother and daughter who are brutally murdered in a crime that baffles the police. Poe's amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, solves the mystery.	
Murphy, Bridey	a woman who was regressed back to the 1800s through the use of hypnosis during which a full and detailed life in Ireland was contacted.  Her name in that life was Bridey Murphy.  Dianetics discoveries inspired and were the impetus behind this 1952 episode.	
mushroom plume	a huge mushroom-shaped cloud that forms in the air after an atomic explosion.	
Mussolini	Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder and leader of the Fascist Party and premier of Italy 1922-1943. He gained and maintained his power by physical violence against his opposition.	
Mussorgsky	Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1835-1881), Russian composer of operas and orchestral works and songs.	
mutt	(slang) a stupid or foolish person.	
muy estupido	Spanish for "very stupid."	
muzzy	(slang) uncertain.	
my hat	(colloquial) certainly not! An expression used to show disagreement with or one's surprise at a statement, remark, etc. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as my foot, my eye, etc.)	
naggling	gnawing; nagging, quarreling or haggling.	
name, rank and serial number	name, rank and serial number: precise identity. Informal usage from a familiar clause of a US code of conduct for American men taken prisoner which states that a prisoner is "bound to give only name, rank, service number and date of birth."	
Nancy	a manufacturing city in northeastern France. It was an important railroad center that suffered heavily under bombardment in World War II.	
Napoleon	Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French military leader. He rose to power in France by military force, declared himself emperor and conducted campaigns of conquest across Europe until his final defeat by armies allied against him in 1815.	
Napoleonic	of the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte	
Napoleons	persons similar to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French military leader.  He rose to power in France by military force, declared himself emperor and conducted campaigns of conquest across Europe until his final defeat by armies allied against him in 1815.	
nappies	(British informal) diapers.	
Narcotics Division	a reference to the Bureau of Narcotics established on 14 June 1930, as an independent bureau of the Treasury Department in the United States.  Its alleged purpose is to protect individuals from dangerous drugs. It is charged with the responsibility of enforcing various controlled substance codes and laws passed in the US, issuing permits for sending drugs out of the US, regulating the quantity of drugs created in the states for medicinal purposes and licensing the production of poppies and manufacturing of opium products.	
Natal University	a university founded in 1909 at Pietermaritzburg (capital of Natal) with a branch in Durban, South Africa.	
National Academy of American Psychology	an association formed in 1957, under the auspices of the Founding Church of Scientology Washington, DC, which had the purpose of bringing about high ethical standards in the mental health field of America. It had a program to disseminate an eighteen point code of ethics (Loyalty Oath of Mental Practice) and get psychiatrists, psychologists, etc., signed and sworn to it.	
National Geographic	short for National Geographic Magazine, a monthly publication by the National Geographic Society containing geographical knowledge concerning all the corners of the Earth.	
National Insurance Company	a made‑up name for a company. National Insurance is the act or system in England of insuring employed persons against sickness or unemployment, especially in accordance with the National Insurance Acts which require certain wage earners to make weekly payments supplemented by their employers, in return for which they are entitled to State (government) assistance in sickness, unemployment, etc.	
National Museum	short for the United States National Museum, a part of the Smithsonian Institution (an organization founded in the US in 1846 with the purpose of "the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men").  The United States National Museum is located in Washington, DC and includes: the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology.	
National Provincial Bank	one of the largest banks in England during World War I. It merged with Westminster Bank in the late 1960s and became the National Westminster Bank, as it is known today.	
NATO	abbreviation for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance established (1949) by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States, and later joined by Greece and Turkey (1952) and West Germany (1955). Its aim is to safeguard the Atlantic community, particularly against the Soviet bloc.	
naturopath	one who practices naturopathy, a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.	
nautch girl	a professional dancing girl in India.	
naw	(dialect) no.	
near beer, Clear as	a humorously coined expression meaning very clear. Near beer is any of several clear, light brown malt beverages that are similar to beer but are usually considered nonalcoholic because they have an alcoholic content of less than ½ percent.	
neat as a pin	very neat or tidy.	
neck is way out, your	(colloquial) you are at risk or, especially, you have done or said something that might cause trouble.	
neck, breaking (one's)	(colloquial) hurrying or working very hard or fast to do something.	
neck, come down on (one's)	very severely rebuke or punish (one).	
needle in a haystack, looking for a	looking for a very small article amidst a mass of other things.	
needles in haystacks	very small articles amidst a mass of other things.	
neither the twain shall mix	a reference to the poem The Ballad of East and West by English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Part of the poem reads:
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."	
Nelson eye	a blind eye.  A reference to Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), admiral in the English navy, known as one of the greatest of naval strategists.  In 1793 he was placed in command of the Agamemnon (a British navy ship) and sailed to join the Mediterranean fleet.  This voyage began seven years of almost continual warfare at sea.  Nelson was one of the British commanders who captured Corsica, though he was wounded there and lost the sight of his right eye.	
Nelsonian	of Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), admiral in the English navy, known as one of the greatest of naval strategists.	
neoarsphenamine	a yellow powder containing arsenic and used chiefly in the treatment of syphilis and yaws (an infectious disease of tropical regions characterised by a rash and sores on the skin).	
Nero	original name, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (A.D. 37-68) an ancient Roman emperor (A.D. 54-68), famed for his cruelty. He had his mother and wife killed and kicked his mistress to death while she was pregnant. Nero also persecuted Christians, blaming them for a great fire in Rome. A famous legend holds that Nero caused the great fire of Rome himself and played a stringed instrument while watching it. To say that someone is "fiddling while Rome burns" is to say that the person is indifferent to catastrophe.	
nerve, strain every	exert oneself to the utmost.	
Nescafé	(trademark) the brand name of an instant coffee.	
neuro-aural	a coined term from neuro-, which means "nerve" and aural, which means "of, pertaining to, or perceived by the ear."	
neurosis	an anti-social action or an anti-survival action which is compulsively undertaken by the individual.
(psychiatry) a condition wherein a person is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to psychosis, wherein a person is just insane in general).
	
neurotic	exhibiting behavior characteristic of one who is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to psychotic, which is just insane in general).
(psychiatry) of or having a neurosis.
(psychiatry) one who exhibits behavior characteristic of neurosis.
exhibiting neurosis.
See also neurosis in this glossary.	
Neverleak	(brand name) a tire fluid manufactured by RM Hollingshead Corporation in Camden, New Jersey. It is used to seal a punctured tire and automatically inflate it with air for continued use.	
never‑never land	an unreal, imaginary or ideal state, condition, place, etc.	
New Jersey organization	a reference to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, the first organization of Dianetics in the US which was established in Elizabeth, New Jersey.	
New South Guinea	a made-up name for a state.	
New Year's resolutions	the plans traditionally made by individuals on the first day of the year, New Year's, which is celebrated as a holiday in almost every country. The earliest of the ancient nations celebrated this day. In ancient Rome, the first day of the year was given over to honoring Janus, the god of gates and doors, of beginnings and endings. The month of January was named after this god. Janus had two faces and looked both ahead and backward. On the first day of the year the Roman people looked back to what had happened during the past year and thought of what the coming year might bring. The early English took over many of the Roman New Year customs. Later the English followed the custom of cleaning chimneys on New Year's Day which was supposed to bring good luck to the household the coming year. That tradition has changed through time. Instead of cleaning the chimney, resolutions are made to correct faults and bad habits, resolving to make the new year better than the one just ended.	
New York Institute of Photography	a prestigious school of photography founded in 1910 in New York City.	
New York Times	one of the largest circulating newspapers in the United States, published in New York.
a daily newspaper, published in New York City since 1851.	
Newsweek	a US weekly news magazine with a worldwide circulation.	
Newton	Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English mathematician and natural philosopher, formulator of the laws of gravity and motion.	
Newton's Iaws	reference to the three laws of motion and interaction formulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642‑1727) English scientist and mathematician. These laws are intended to deseribe how all moving bodies on the Earth react: (1) a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an external force; (2) the motion of a body changes in proportion to the size of the force applied to it; (3) every action produces an equal but opposite reaction.	
Newton's law of inertia	a reference to the three laws of motion and interaction formulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English scientist and mathematician. These laws are intended to describe how all moving bodies on the earth react:
(1)	a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an external force;
(2)	the motion of a body changes in proportion to the size of the force applied to it;
(3)	every action produces an equal but opposite reaction. 	
Niagara	a torrent or flood. From Niagara Falls: 
See also Niagara Falls in this glossary.	
Niagara Falls	a set of waterfalls on the Niagara River between the state of New York in the United States and Ontario in Canada. The river is nearly a mile across at the falls and flows approximately 15 million cubic feet of water per minute over straight drops ranging from 158 to 167 feet. At times individuals have gone over the falls in a barrel, though few have survived the ordeal. The first successful attempt was made in 1901 by a 43‑yearold woman, witnessed by thousands of spectators.	
nibbling	carping; making trifling objections or criticisms.	
nickel and a collar button, for a	variation of worth a nickel. A button is a thing of very  small value.
See also nickel, worth a in this glossary.	
nickel, worth a 	(colloquial) be worth anything, usually used in negative sentences.	
nickels on the drums, dropping	contributing to a church or other religious organization, a nickel being five cents American, a small amount of money.	
Nicky	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
nicotinic acid	same as niacin. A white, odorless, crystalline substance found in protein foods or prepared synthetically. It is a member of the vitamin B complex.	
Nietzsche	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and poet. He denounced all religion and promoted the "morals of masters," the doctrine of perfecting man through forcible self-assertion and glorification of the "superman," as expressed in his most famous work, Thus Spake Zarathustra. Nietzsche was a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland from 1869 until 1879, when severe eye and brain trouble forced him to retire on a pension. He lived at various health resorts in Italy and Switzerland until 1889, when he became hopelessly insane. Nietzsche's theories are regarded as having influenced the German attitudes in World War I and the Nazi regime.
See also Zarathustra in this glossary.	
Nineveh	the capital of the ancient empire of Assyria, situated on the east bank of the Tigris River, opposite modern Mosul, Iraq. Nineveh contained magnificent palaces and sculpture which have been unearthed in archaeological excavations. The city is thought to have been established circa 2300 B.C. It became the capital in the 700S B.C. and was destroyed in 606 B.C.	
nirvana	(Buddhism) the term nirvana literally means "blowing out" or 46going out" or "extinguishing" of the fire of passion or flames of desire. According to Buddhist doctrine, nirvana is the state of perfect blessedness achieved by the extinction of individual existence and by the absorption of the soul into the supreme spirit, or by the extinction of all desires and passions.	
nitch of time, in the	a variation of the phrase in the nick of time, meaning just before it is too late.	
Nixon, R. M.	Richard Milhous Nixon (1913‑ ) a political leader of the twentieth century and 37th president of the United States (1969‑1974). As a member of Congress in the late 1940s, Nixon came to national attention through his strong support for the investigation of the alleged communist, Alger Hiss (an official in the Department of State who was accused of having been a secret agent for the Soviet Union during the 1930s). He was elected vice‑president twice under President Eisenhower, but later lost the presidential election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy. Nixon ran for governor of California in 1962 but was defeated at which point he retired from politics for several years and reemerged as the president at the end of the 60s.	
NKVD	in the USSR, the initials for the name of the government's secretpolice organization from 1934 through 1946.	
nodule phase	(astrology) a reference to one of the two points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic (the path that the sun appears to travel annually on the celestial sphere).	
noives	(New York dialect) nerves.	
Nome	a town in west central Alaska, where the winter temperatures range from -2 to -10 degrees Fahrenheit.	
non persona grata	(Latin) a person who is not welcome or acceptable.	
non-Aristotelian logic	a coined phrase from non- meaning "not" or "negation" and Aristotelian, of or having any relation to Aristotle (384322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. For nearly 2000 years after Aristotle many used his philosophy and doctrines in their own thinking. But to the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Aristotelianism was considered the straitjacket that kept learning in confinement. During that time, an attack was launched on the tradition of Aristotelian logic which supplied alternative materials on the subject of logic and continued into the mid-1900s.	
N'Orleans	(southern US dialect) short for New Orleans, a city in southeastern Louisiana, US. Jazz music originated in the late nineteenth century among black musicians of New Orleans.	
Norman	of the people who came from Normandy (northwest part of France) and conquered and became the rulers of England in the year 1066.	
Normandy landing	a reference to the invasion of Normandy, an event during World War II when Americans and the British invaded Normandy (a province of northern France).	
north	(slang) up.	
North American Indian	the native people of America. They were called Indians by Christopher Columbus when he was searching for India and found America.	
North and the South	an allusion to the American Civil War (1861-1865), in which the northern area of the United States, the states north of Maryland, the Ohio River and Missouri, making up most of the states that formed the Union side of the Civil War fought the southern area of the US, the group of eleven states that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861 because of various differences, especially over the issue of slavery. You have the North and the South fighting over the 1964 election, something like this. -PTPs, Overts and ARC Breaks (10 Nov. 64)	
North Korean	of North Korea.  A reference to the Korean War, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations and communist North Korea (the northern half of the peninsula off northeastern China).  The war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.  The United Nations declared North Korea the aggressor and sent troops, mostly from United States forces, to aid the South Korean army.  In 1953, with neither side having a prospect of victory, a truce was signed.	
North, the	the northern area of the United States, especially the states that fought to preserve the Union in the American Civil War (18611865). The Civil War was fought between the northern (Union) and southern (Confederate) states in which the Confederacy sought to establish itself as a separate nation. The war grew out of deep-seated differences between the social structure and economy of North and South, most notably over slavery; the South being majorly in favor of slavery.	
Northern Rhodesia	a former name of a region in south Africa, now called Zambia.	
Northumberland, Earl of	a reference to Henry Percy (ca. 1502-1537), the sixth Earl of Northumberland (a county in the northern part of England on the southern border of Scotland). He was a suitor of Anne Boleyn, who later became the wife of King Henry VIII (1491-1547).
See also Boleyn, Anne in this glossary.	
Northumbria	an early English kingdom in northern Britain.	
noteth	a humorous variation of the word "not," adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
Notting Hill Gate	the name of the street where HASI London was located in 1955.	
Novgorod, Dimitri	a made-up name for a Russian person. Novgorod is the name of a city in the northwest Soviet Union, southeast of Leningrad.	
Noz	a made-up name for a place.	
number 10's in, stick (one's)	(colloquial) a variation of the phrase put your foot in it, do or say something, especially unintentionally, that distresses or offends another person. Number 10 is a rather common size of men's shoe.	
number one	(colloquial) oneself.	
numbers, by the	(slang) in a prescribed way.	
Numidians	the people of Numidia, an ancient country in northern Africa (mainly in what is now eastern Algeria).	
nut house	(slang) an insane asylum; a prison and/or hospital for the mentally ill.	
nut, do (one's)	become angry; lose (one's) head; get worked up about something; go crazy.	
nutrilite	(biochemistry) any of several substances, as certain minerals, that, in minute quantities, serve as nutrients for microorganisms.	
nyet	(Russian) no.	
O. Henry	the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), American short-story writer. An extremely popular and prolific writer during his lifetime, O. Henry is noted for his sentimental, semirealistic stories dealing with the lives of modest people and his mastery of the surprise ending.	
Oakland Bridge	a bridge which spans across the San Francisco Bay in western California, between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland.	
Oakley, Annie	(1860-1926) American sharpshooter, considered the greatest of all time. Annie Oakley was famed for her incredible stunts such as shooting out flames of revolving candles while upside down on horseback and piercing the thin edge of a playing card with a bullet. She began an autobiography which was never completed due to her death in 1926.	
oblagata	a made-up name for a part of the brain.	
occultist	a humorous reference to an oculist, an earlier term for an ophthalmologist: a doctor who specializes in the branch of medicine dealing with the structure, functions and diseases of the eye. An occultist is one who believes in mysticism, the supernatural; a mystic.	
occupants of the throne	(figurative) persons occupying a position of dominion or supremacy.	
occupational disease	a disease that results from or is commonly acquired by people in a particular occupation.	
octubre	(Spanish) October.	
Odd Fellow	a member of the Odd Fellows, a secret society with benevolent aims. This group existed as early as the 1700s in England, though its origin is uneertain. In 1813, the soeiety flourished in Manchester, England as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows which is the name it now carries. It has since then become the greatest of such altruistic orders, spreading into most of the countries in northern Europe and into North America. Its chief purpose is to give aid, assistance and comfort to its meinbers and their families.	
odd man out	any atypical or unconventional person or thing.	
odiferous	a shortened form of odoriferous, giving off an odor.	
off base	unawares (unexpectedly), off one's guard, by surprise.	
off the bat	without hesitation; immediately; quickly.	
offball	(slang) a variation of oddball meaning "strange or unconventional."	
off-base	(slang) incorrect; inaccurate.
unawares (unexpectedly), off one's guard, by surprise.	
offend, with	in an attacking or offensive manner.	
Ogpu	the official organization of secret police and detectives in the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1934. It was named the NKVD in 1934.
See also NKVD in this glossary.	
oh, brother	(slang) an expression of disappointment, disgust or surprise.	
ohmiwhums	a made-up word for a measurement of energy.	
ol' Paint	a made-up name for a horse.	
'old	(dialect) hold	
Old Bailey	a historic criminal court in London on Old Bailey Street.	
old days	past times.	
Old Hundred	the tune that Psalm 100 (a verse in the Bible) is sung to. in 1696 this Psalm tune was given the number 166 in a revised book of Psalms, thus the original was named "Old Hundred" to distinguish this specific tune that went with this verse.	
old school tie	(informal) loyalty among members of a group, especially among graduates of the same school or college. From a necktie striped in the distinctive colors of any of the exclusive English public schools (schools where one pays for their education).
a necktie worn by members of a group, especially among graduates of the same school or college, as a sign of their association and loyalty.	
'ole	(dialect) hole.	
Ole Doe Methuselah	a science fiction story written by L. Ron Hubbard about a physician, Ole Doc Methuselah, who was part of an elite organization whose members "dedicated themselves to the ultimate preservation of mankind no matter the wars or explorations of space."	
O'Leary, Mrs.	a made-up name.	
Oliver Twist	a novel (approximately 400 pages long) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), depicting the world of poverty, crime and the workhouse (poorhouse) of 19th-century London.	
Ollie	a parody of the films by Stanley Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957). Ollie (nickname of Hardy) and Stan were a team of film comedians in the early twentieth century who almost always played their movie roles under their own names, wearing derby hats and neckties. Laurel appeared as a thin, dimwitted Englishman and Hardy as an overweight American, often irritable and pompous. In their films, they constantly got in each other's way and were usually involved in hopeless business undertakings or doomed personal adventures.	
Om, mani padme hum	(Tibetan Buddhism) a chant intoned in prayer or meditation. It literally means Hail! Jewel in the Lotus! and is used humorously in the lecture.	
O-Meter	an oscilloscope (machine that shows waves) meter, also known as a theta meter and trademarked as a physiogalvanometer.
For more information, see SHSBC lecture 1, "E-Meter Talk and Demo."	
One World	a book written by Wendell Willkie in 1943.
See also Willkie, Wendell in this glossary.	
one-man band	a man who plays several musical instruments simultaneously.	
one‑shot	(informal) undertaken, issued or occurring one time only; formed for a single project or venture.
(US informal) a single subject or theme to the exclusion or neglect of others.
an attempt at achieving or accomplishing something with a single try.	
on-the-bally	(slang) alertly, efficiently. A coined variation of on the ball.	
onus	the duty or responsibility of doing something.	
oogly-boogly rotor bug drives	a made-up term for a part or component.	
oogly-boogly-bug-rug ooger-drive	a made-up term for a part or component.	
'op	(dialect) hop.	
open sesame	the password at which the door of the robbers' cave flew open in the tale of The Forty Thieves (Arabian Nights); hence a key to a mystery, or anything that acts like magic in obtaining favor, admission, recognition, etc.	
open up the ball	(slang) begin.	
open-and-closed	(US informal) a variation of open-and-shut, easily decided; very simple or obvious.	
opening gun	a shot fired as a signal to begin something Used figuratively in the lecture.	
operation bootstrap	a coined phrase from operation, meaning any specific plan, project, etc., and bootstrap, to become successful through one's own efforts, without help from other people and in spite of disadvantages.	
Ophir	a country of uncertain location, possibly southern Arabia or the eastern coast of Africa, from which gold and precious stones and trees were brought for Solomon (king of Israel in the 10th century B.C.).	
ophthalmialitis	(medical) a variation of ophthalmitis, an inflamed condition of the eye.	
Oppenheimer	Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American physicist, director (1942-1945) of the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, that designed and built the first atomic bombs. Oppenheimer later became a main proponent of the civilian and international control of atomic energy. Oppenheimer strongly opposed, on both technical and moral grounds, the development of the hydrogen bomb. He was suspended from the chairmanship of the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 as an alleged security risk.	
orangicate	a made-up word.	
orazone	a reference to orgone, a name coined by Wilhelm Reich in his psychoanalytic theory about an assumed energy permeating the universe, the personal supply of which an individual suffering from various emotional or physical ills could allegedly replenish by sitting in a small special cabinet (orgone box) in which this energy was supposed to accumulate for use in the treatment of mental and physical illnesses.
See also Reich, Wilhelm in this glossary.	
order arms	(military) a position in rifle drilling where one brings the rifle to an upright position with its butt on the ground beside the right foot, and remains at attention.	
order of the day	(colloquial) the prevailing rule or custom of the time.	
order of, on the	somewhat like; similar to.	
Oregon pine	another name for a Douglas fir. A timber tree of the pine family, also called Douglas spruce. The wood is moderately hard, moderately heavy and very stiff and is used mainly in building construction; large quantities also go into railroad ties and shipping boxes.	
original sin	(Bible) the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which led to their expulsion from Eden by God. According to the most common teaching of Christians on the subject, all descendants of Adam and Eve—that is, all people—share in this sin and are, from the time they are conceived, in a state of sin.	
'orrible	(dialect) horrible.	
Orville and Wilbur	Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), American aircraft pioneers.  The brothers had a bicycle-repair shop in Dayton, Ohio when they were attracted to aviation in 1892.  On 17 December 1903, they made what are generally regarded as the first powered, sustained and controlled flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  The first flight lasted for only 12 seconds but on the fourth, the machine traveled 59 seconds.  They formed the Wright Aeroplane Company in 1909.	
Orwell	George Orwell (1903-1950), English novelist, author of the famous novel titled 1984.
See also 1984 in this glossary.	
ostrich plumes, wore	a variation of the phrase had a feather in one's cap meaning had made an achievement to be proud of.	
Oswald	Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963), the presumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy from a high window of a building in Dallas on November 22, 1963, as Kennedy rode down the street in an open car. Oswald was captured the day of the assassination, but was never tried; two days after Kennedy's death, as Oswald was being moved by police, a nightclub owner from Dallas, Jack Ruby, shot and killed him. A government commission concluded later that Oswald, though active in communist causes, was not part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Some have questioned the findings of the commission.	
Ouspensky	Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian philosopher and interpreter of his guru, G.I. Gurdjieff Being attracted to theosophy early in his life, he published several books one of which was titled Tertinum Organum (Third Work) which covered such topics as time, space, the cosmos and Eastern and Western philosophies. It was at this same time that he became associated with Gurdjieff and became a disciple of his until 1924. From then on, Ouspensky conducted lectures in England while continuing to write until his death in 1947. 
See also Gurdjieff in this glossary.	
Outrigger, The	a restaurant in Seattle, Washington, in the northwest United States.	
over the tin cup	(slang) a variation of the phrase appetite over tin cup, a pioneer Western US term used by riverboat men on the Missouri; it means thrown away violently, like "head over heels," "bowled over."	
overt doth speak loudly in accusation, the	an allusion to a statement in the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.  In this tragedy, Hamlet falls into melancholia after the death of his father, the king.  The king's brother, Claudius, assumes the throne and marries Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, within two months of the king's death.  His father's ghost appears to Hamlet, accusing Claudius of murdering him and demanding revenge.  Unable to bring himself to action and beset by doubts as to the truth of the ghost's words, Hamlet persuades some traveling players to re-enact the death of his father.  The play includes a scene in which the actress depicting the queen vehemently protests the idea of remarrying after the king's death.  During this scene, Hamlet asks his mother how she likes the play.  The queen's reply: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
See also Shakespeare in this glossary. 	
Overture of 1812	an orchestral composition written by Russian composer Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow (1812).	
overwhump	a coined word meaning to overwhelm extremely.	
overwhumped	a coined word meaning "extremely overwhelmed."	
overwhumpingness	a coined word meaning the state, quality or instance of being extremely overwhelmed.	
Oxford	short for Oxford University at Oxford, England; one of the world's most prestigious universities.	
Oxfordian English	English spoken with an Oxford accent (a style of pronouncing English popularly believed to be characteristic of members of the University of Oxford).	
Oxfordians	graduates of Oxford University at Oxford, England; one of the world's most prestigious universities.	
P-99 Interceptor	a made-up name for an interceptor (a fast climbing military airplane used in fighting off enemy air attacks) having a designation of P-99.	
Pacific Coast	the land on the western side of the United States running alongside the Pacific Ocean.	
pack it up	(colloquial) bring or come to an end or halt; finish; stop.
(slang) stop; desist; give up what one is doing.	
packaged	of or having to do with a series of related parts grouped or combined into a single unit.	
packed up	(slang) ceased; gave up; retired.	
padded cell	a room, as in a mental hospital, with heavily padded walls for the confinement of violent inmates.	
Pago Pago tree	a tree of Pago Pago: the capital of American Samoa, islands of the Samoan group lying in the South Pacific Ocean.  The Samoan forests have a remarkable size and variety of trees, including tree-ferns, coconut palms, banana and hardwood trees.	
Paintings of Robins' Feathers	a made-up name for a society.	
pan (something) out	(figurative) bring (something) forth, yield (something).	
Pan American	the name of a large international airline.	
Pandora's Box	a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first mortal woman.
(classical mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora, the first woman, with strict instructions that she not open it. Pandora's curiosity soon got the better of her and she opened the box. All the evils and miseries of the world flew out to afflict mankind.	
panels	(especially British) a strip or surface that is different in some way from what is around it.	
Pangloss	Dr. Pangloss, the old tutor to the hero in the satire Candide, (subtitled "Optimism") by Voltaire (French philosopher, poet, dramatist and author, 1694-1778). Dr. Pangloss' great point was his incurable and misleading optimism which did him no good and brought him all sorts of misfortune, but to the end he reiterated "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."	
Pangopango	former name of Pago Pago: the capital of American Samoa, islands of the Samoan group lying in the South Pacific Ocean.	
panic of 1929, the	a widespread fear of financial collapse which occurred in 1929, resulting in a sharp drop in the stock market, withdrawals of bank deposits, etc. The panic of 1929 was caused by a financial push that concentrated only on stocks, money and overextending credit not backed by delivery and production. It preceded a great slowdown in the American economy, the worst in the country's history, known as the Great Depression. Many banks and businesses failed and millions of people lost their jobs.	
panned out	(informal) turned out; worked out.	
pants, shot in the	(slang) given a strong stimulus or impetus; given something that stimulates and enlivens; given an invigorating influence.	
Pan-wan	a made-up name for a planet.	
Panzer Division, 18th	a made-up name for an armored division of a military force. Taken from the armored divisions of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks. The German word panzer means "armor."	
paper doll	the figure of a person cut out of a sheet of paper or cardboard for use as a child's doll.	
paraclosis	a made-up name for a disease.	
parade ground	an extent of open, level ground, usually within or adjacent to a fort, where soldiers are accustomed to parade.	
parade-ground	of or having to do with an extent of open, level ground, usually within or adjacent to a fort, where soldiers are accustomed to parade.	
paraglutenous magnoid	a made-up term.	
parallax corrector	(photography) the apparent displacement of an object that results from the change of perspective with which it is viewed. In photography, the term directly applies to the different perspectives of an object through the viewfinder and camera lens because of their slight distance apart. Such a parallax error can result in a poorly composed image or in part of the desired field of vision being omitted from the frame.	
Paramount	short for Paramount Pictures Corporation, a motion picture distributor and studio created by Adolph Zukor (1873-1976, Hungarianborn film pioneer who emigrated to the US) and other film pioneers of the early 1900s. It is one of the top motion picture companies in the US.	
pard	(slang) partner; friend; companion.	
pardon my French	an exclamation of apology for the use of profane or taboo language.	
pardon the French	(slang) an exclamation of apology for the use of profane or taboo language.	
Park Avenue	a thoroughfare in New York City along part of which there are very fine, large, expensive office and residential buildings.	
Park City	a town in south central Montana. PC: Park City. —TV Demo: Prepchecking, Part II (2 May 62)	
park, a walk in the	simple; easy, as though one were taking a walk through a park.	
Parke	Parke-Davis, a major US pharmaceutical manufacturer which produces and distributes a variety of medical drugs as well as highly dangerous and destructive "psychiatric" drugs.	
Parke and Davis	Parke-Davis, a major US pharmaceutical manufacturer which produces and distributes a variety of medical drugs as well as highly dangerous and destructive ”psychiatric” drugs.	
Parker	a staff member who worked at the Dianetics organization in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1950.	
parrot rating	made-up grade or rating for an auditor who is only able to parrot or repeat back information without full understanding.	
parteth	a humorous variation of the word "part," adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
Pasadena	a city in southern California, near Los Angeles.	
Pasteur	Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and bacteriologist. He proved that decay and putrefaction are caused by bacteria and developed serums and vaccines for such diseases as cholera and rabies.	
Pasteur Institute	an institute opened in Paris in 1888 for the research, prevention and treatment of rabies.  The first director of this institution was Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and bacteriologist.  He proved that decay and putrefaction are caused by bacteria and developed serums and vaccines for such diseases as cholera and rabies.	
pastness	a coined word meaning a state, quality or instance of being in the past (earlier than present time on the time track).	
pat (one) on the back	(colloquial) praise (one) for something he has done.	
Pat and Mike	(colloquial) of or having to do with the fictitious characters Pat and Mike in Irish jokes. From Pat and Mike, common names for Irishmen.	
pat-a-cake	same as patty-cake, a term used since 1950 which means not handling cases. From a children's game played by a child clapping hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme.  From the beginning words of the nursery rhyme:
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man!
Bake me a cake as fast as you can,
Shape it and prick it, and mark it with B,
And put it in the oven for Baby and me!	
paternoster	(Latin) our father (pater: father; noster: our). The opening words of the Latin version of the Lord's Prayer (a prayer which Jesus taught his disciples). "	
Path	a made-up name for a planet.	
patted up	flattened, smoothed or put into place or shape with light strokes (as of the hands).	
patty‑cake	a variation of pat‑a‑cake, a children's game played by a child clapping hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme which has the following beginning words:
"Pat‑a‑cake, pat‑a‑cake, baker's man!
Bake me a cake as fast as you can,
Shape it and prick it, and mark it with B,
And put it in the oven for Baby and me!"
Figuratively used to mean "childish clarity or simplicity".	
pave the way	make everything ready (for something).	
Pavlov	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian physiologist. Noted for behavioral experiments in which he sounded a bell while presenting food to a dog, thereby stimulating the natural flow of saliva in the dog's mouth. After the procedure was repeated several times, the dog would salivate at the sound of the bell, even when no food was presented.	
Pavlov, Saint	a humorous reference to Ivan Petrovich Pavlov.
See also Pavlov in this glossary.	
Pavlovian	having to do with the work of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov.
See also Pavlov in this glossary.	
Pavlovianism	the system or belief having to do with the work of Ivan Pavlov.
See Pavlov in this glossary.	
paw in a velvet glove, steel	a variation of an iron hand in a velvet glove, meaning firmness or severity hidden by an outer appearance of gentleness.	
PDQ	(informal) an abbreviation for the expression pretty damn quick.  Used humorously in this lecture.	
peach	(slang) give evidence against another; turn informer.	
peak up	become emphasized.	
peaked up	emphasized.	
peanuts	(slang) anything which is unimportant, insignificant or small..	
peanut-whistle	(figurative) having very little power. A peanut-whistle is a small instrument for making whistling sounds by means of the breath. Peanut is slang for small or insignificant.	
Pearl Harbor	a major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on 7 December, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships.	
pearls of Ophir out in front of (someone), laying the	a variation of the expression casting pearls before swine: offering valuable things to those who cannot appreciate them. Ophir is the seaport or region, frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, from which the ships of Solomon (king of Israel in the tenth century B.C.) brought fine gold in great quantity. Sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks were also part of the cargo. Though the exact location is uncertain, it is believed to have been in a kingdom in southeastern Arabia.	
Pedro	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
Pembry	a person at the time of the lecture who was involved in building E-Meters.	
pence	(British) plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination), for example: sixpence.
the basic unit of money in the United Kingdom; also called pounds sterling.	
pennies on a dead man's eyes	a reference to the custom of placing pennies (and other coins) on the eyes of dead persons. Such action is done in order to keep the eyelids closed (and thus not have the eyes set in a fixed glare) as rigor mortis sets in.	
Pennsylvania Turnpike	a superhighway built in 1940 spanning the entire state of Pennsylvania, a distance of 327 miles. A turnpike is a road on which a toll must be paid, especially one that is an expressway. The term comes from a vertical pole (or pike) set up across the highway lanes to admit traffic. As each vehicle pays the toll the pole raises or turns so as to let the traffic pass through. Turnpikes originated in England in the seventeenth century where a small toll was imposed on travelers and goods for the purpose of keeping parts of the roads in good repair.	
penny dropped, the	understanding dawned; a situation or statement was belatedly comprehended.  From the use of machines operated by coins.  The machines will not work until the coin has dropped into the necessary position.	
penny-a-liner	a writer of paragraphs at a cheap rate (originally a penny for each line written); hence a literary hack.	
Pentagon	the five-sided building in Arlington, Virginia, in which the offices of the US Department of Defense are located.	
Pepsi-Cola	(trademark) the name of a popular soft drink originating in the United States.	
Pepto-Bismol	brand name of a medication used for indigestion, upset stomach, heartburn, diarrhea and nausea.	
Pericles	(ca. 495-429 B.C.) a statesman of ancient Greece, who tried to unite the country under the leadership of his own city, Athens.  Pericles also promoted democracy within Athens and was the leader of the Athens government for thirty years.  His rule is sometimes known as the Golden Age of Greece.  Many magnificent buildings were built under his administration and the "Age of Pericles" came to stand for all that was the highest in the art and science of the ancient world.  The state had a period of great prosperity and literature and philosophy flourished.	
Perils of Pauline, The	the name of a famous 1914 film serial concerned with the heroine's (Pauline's) evasion of attempts on her life by her dastardly guardian. It was one of the most popular serials of its time.
See also serial in this glossary.	
Pernambuco	a state on the northeastern coast of Brazil, its capital is Recife, sometimes also called Pernambuco.	
Pernetta, Mike	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of the lecture.	
pernt	(dialect) point.	
Perry	reference to the Perry brothers, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858) and Oliver Hazard (1785-1819). Matthew was an American naval officer and diplomat who joined the navy in 1809, saw action in the War of 1812 and later served as an officer in the Mediterranean. His chief claim to fame rests on his negotiations with the isolated country of Japan in 1852-1854. He successfully arranged a treaty which opened Japan to the US and the rest of the world. Oliver, his brother, as an American naval officer had been ordered to build a fleet on Lake Erie in the north central US in order to prevent British advance during the War of 1812. On 10 September 1813, the Battle of Lake Erie was fought in which Perry heroically forced the full surrender of the British fleet. Both Perrys were spirited and ruthless naval officers of their time.	
Persians	natives or inhabitants of Persia (now called Iran).	
Perth	the capital city of Western Australia.	
peseta, bet your bottom	be absolutely assured; count on it. A variation of bet your bottom dollar. The peseta is the monetary unit and a coin of Spain.	
Pete	(informal) an intenection used in various mild exclamations and phrases expressive of exasperation or annoyance. For example, "So help me Pete," or "For Pete's sake."	
Peter	the name of a staff member at Saint Hill at the time of the lecture.
a Scientologist in Australia at the time of this lecture.	
Peter Piper	a reference to the famous tongue twister in English entitled "Peter Piper," the context of which is as follows:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?	
pharmaceticopeia	a humorous variation of pharmacopoeia. An authoritative book containing a list and description of drugs and medicinal products together with the standards established under law for their production, dispensation, use, etc.	
Phil	a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course Instructor at the time of this lecture.	
Philadelphia	a city in the state of Pennsylvania on the East Coast of the United States.	
Philippine Deep	a reference to the Philippine Trench, the very deepest part of the Philippine Sea which is 34,578 feet.	
Phoenician	of or pertaining to an ancient region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, famous for its far-reaching trade.	
Phoenicians	natives of Phoenicia: an ancient region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, famous for its far-reaching trade.	
Phoenix	the capital city of the state of Arizona in the western United States.
an abbreviated term for the Dianetics organization located in Phoenix, Arizona in the 1950s.	
photoflood 2	a type of lamp used in studio photography.  The "2" designates a 500-watt lamp ("photoflood l" being a lamp of 250 watts).	
physician heal thyself	a biblical proverb meaning that people should take care of their own defects and not just correct the faults of others. According to the gospels of Luke and Matthew, Jesus said he expected to hear this proverb from the people of his hometown of Nazareth, because they would want him to work miracles there, as he had in other towns nearby.	
physiologically	in terms of or having to do with the organic functions or processes in an organism or in any of its parts.	
Picasso	Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor of the twentieth century, the most famous and influential of all modern artists. Many of Picasso's works have been classified into various periods, such as his so-called blue period (1901-1904), characterized by paintings done of old men, mothers and children, and beggars, all done in predominantly blue tones.	
Piccadilly	short for Piccadilly Circus, a traffic circle and open square in west London, England; theater and amusement center.	
Piccadilly Circus	a traffic circle and open square in west London, England; theater and amusement center.	
piccolo	a metal or wooden flute stop of a two-foot length on an organ.  Its sound resembles that of the flute of the same name.	
pie in the sky	(slang) false promises of wonderful things to come‑at some future time. The phrase originated about 1905 in America when union organizers warned workers not to believe the promises of management, because "You only get pie in the sky when you die."	
pie, putting his thumb in	an allusion to the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner," a tale of the dishonest dealings in the days of King Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) where a man by the name of John Horner, a steward of Glastonbury (town in southwest England) was sent to London with a pie for the king. Title deeds for several estates were baked into the pie. The greedy Horner stuck his thumb into the pie before he got to London, in other words, he stole the Kings deeds. Papers were often baked in pies at this time. It was a favorite trick in the 1500s to hide surprises of all kinds in pies.	
piecadillied	a made-up term from piccadilly, a scalloped or pointed border or edge of a garment or part of a garment, as a collar. Used humorously with no meaning in the lecture.	
piece, spoke (one's)	expressed (one's) opinions; revealed (one's) thoughts upon a subject.	
pied piper	reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a character in a poem by Robert Browning, based on a German folk tale from the Middle Ages.  The town of Hamelin is infested with rats, and the citizens hire a piper in multicolored (pied) clothing to lure the rats out with his charming music.  The rats follow the piper into the river and drown.  When the townspeople refuse to pay the piper, he lures away all the children of the town. 	
pie-in-the-sky	(slang) having false promises of wonderful things to come—at some future time. The phrase originated about 1905 in America when union organizers warned workers not to believe the promises of management, because "You only get pie in the sky when you die."	
pig, do unto others as thou shalt turn thy other	humorous alteration of the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and a command of Jesus: ". . . but whosoever shall smite (hit or strike) thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."	
Pike's Peak	a mountain in central Colorado. A peak of the Rocky Mountains (14,108 ft. or 4,300 m.).	
Pilate, Pontius	the governor of the Jews at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus (ca. A.D. 29); he was an official of the Roman Empire, to which the Jewish nation belonged at that time. According to the Gospels, Pilate did not consider Jesus guilty and wanted to release him. Under pressure from the crowds in Jerusalem, however, Pilate sentenced Jesus to death on the cross, having first washed his hands as a symbol of getting rid of his responsibility for Jesus' fate.	
Pill 62	made-up name for an imaginary pill.	
Pilsudski, General	J6zef Pilsudski (1867‑1935), Polish soldier and politician. He spent the first part of his life in two overlapping causes, revolutionary socialism and freeing what was then Russian Poland from czarist rule. He fought for Austria against Russia in World War I after which he was made head of state (1919) and played a prominent part in the battles, political as well as military, by which Poland's frontiers were determined. Having refused the presidency (1922), he lived in retirement until 1926 when he carried out a coup ditat to put his friend in as president. As a result, he exercised almost dictatorial power through the president for the rest of his life.	
pinball	a game that consists of a glass-topped cabinet in which small balls are propelled across a slanting surface among an Arrangement of pins and targets.  Each contact between ball and target scores a number of points indicated by a system of electric lights.	
pink slip	(colloquial) a notice to an employee of termination of employment. From the earlier use of pink paper for the employee's carbon of the dismissal notice.	
pipe	(slang) something regarded as easy to accomplish. From lead‑pipe cinch: a doubly sure or doubly easy thing. Lead pipe refers to a Midwestern and Western US form of galvanized iron pipe (which looks as if it were lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a short length of this so‑called lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (lead‑pipe) cinched.	
pipe wrenches	a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.	
pish	an exclamation of disgust or impatience.	
pishtash	a variation of pish, an exclamation expressing contempt, impatience or disgust.	
pistol, as live as a	a variation of "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," which means very hot; red-hot. A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand. The expression is used in the lecture in reference to a question which gave significant or "hot" reactions on the E-Meter.	
pistol, hot as a	a Variation of "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," which means very hot; red-hot.  A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand.  The expression is used in the lecture in reference to a question which gave significant or "hot" reactions on the E-Meter.	
pistol, hotter than a	short for hotter than a two-dollar pistol, which means very hot; red-hot. A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand. The expression is used in the lecture in reference to a question which gave significant or "hot" reactions on the E-Meter.	
pistol, hotter than a	short for "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," which means very hot; red-hot. A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand. The expression is used in the lecture in reference to questions which gave significant or "hot" reactions on the E-Meter. Or they might be hotter than a pistol. —Repetitive Rudiments and Repetitive Prepchecking, Part II (10 July 62)	
pistol-hot	very hot; red-hot.  A Variation of the expression hotter than a two-dollar pistol. 
See also pistol, hotter than a in this glossary.	
pitch	(slang) talk, chat.	
pitch, go on in and	(slang) put forth one's best efforts; work hard, busily or steadily.	
pitches, gets right in there and	(slang) makes an effort; works diligently; does not let oneself be defeated.	
pitching, in there	(colloquial) working hard and enthusiastically.
(slang) putting forth one's best efforts; working hard, busily or steadily.	
Pitman	Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1879), English inventor who developed a system of shorthand for the purpose of speeding up handwriting. Pitman introduced his system in 1837 which he based on the representation of sound by symbols. He divided the English language into light sounds (represented by light strokes) and heavy sounds (represented by shaded or heavy strokes).	
Pittsburgh	a city and leading industrial center in southern Pennsylvania known for its steel mills, coal fields, petroleum and natural gas. The city earned the nickname "The Smoky City" due to the smoke-spewing factories that stretch for many miles along the river banks.	
pity sakes, for	(informal) an exclamation used to show surprise, crossness or impatience.	
place, in the first	first; before anything else.	
plaster of Paris	like plaster of Paris: a thick paste of gypsum (a calcium mineral in crystal or chalky form) and water that hardens quickly and is used to make statues, casts for broken bones, etc., so called because it is prepared from the gypsums of Montmartre (a hilly section in the north part of Paris, France).	
plate, clean (something) off of (one's)	(slang) make (something) no longer a matter of one's responsibility and concern.	
platina	a made-up name for a body part.  The word platina means platinum, especially as found naturally.	
Plato	(427-347 B.C.) Greek philosopher and educator, born in Athens. In 387 B.C., he founded a school of philosophy known as the Academy which became the first university known in history. One of his essays covered the subject of individual ethics and the question "What is the human good ?" Plato was an idealist who believed that one had to isolate oneself from life in an ivory tower in order to figure life out.	
Plato-ize	a coined word meaning become or make like Plato	
Platos	persons similar to Plato	
play (it) safe	(slang) choose a cautious line of behavior; avoid much risk.	
play sixty-four	a made-up name for a move or act in a game.	
playing around	(slang) doing something, especially one's job, casually or frivolously; behaving in a playful manner.	
Pliny	short for Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus A.D. 23-79), Roman official and writer.  He was brought up as an accomplished, well-educated soldier, administrator and naval commander.  He is known to have practiced law, but is chiefly remembered for his interest in natural history.  His Natural History is the most comprehensive account of its kind written in antiquity.  It covers such subjects as astronomy, the cosmos, geography, the nature of man, the animal world, plants, agriculture, the use of herbs for medical purposes, painting, magic, etc.  Although comprehensive, Pliny was careless in his use of sources and frequently credulous.  His work nonetheless remained the standard encyclopedic compilation covering the different aspects of nature until the 17th century.	
plow (himself) in	embed or bury (himself) in the soil by plowing.	
plow (one) in	embed or bury (one) in the soil by plowing.	
plow (one) under	embed or bury (one) in the soil by plowing.	
plow (someone) out	dig, thrust, root or tear (someone) out.	
plow (someone) through	push (someone) laboriously or doggedly through.	
plow (something) out	dig, thrust, root or tear (something) out.	
plow around	(slang) make tentative advances; feel one's way. 	
plow in	become embedded or buried in the soil by plowing Used figuratively in this lecture.	
plow up	bring to the surface by or as if by plowing.	
plowed	embedded or buried in the soil by plowing.	
plowed (oneself) in	embedded or buried (oneself) in the soil by plowing.	
plowed in	embedded or buried in the soil by plowing.	
plowed up	broken up by plowing; thrown or cast up, eradicated with the plow; cut up roughly, excavated, furrowed or scratched deeply, by any similar action.	
plowing (someone) in	embedding or burying (someone) in the soil by plowing.	
plowing around on	digging into and upsetting.	
plowing on	moving forcefully through something in the manner of a plow.	
plowing up	breaking up by plowing; throwing or casting up, eradicating with the plow; cutting up roughly, excavating, furrowing or scratching deeply, by any similar action.	
plugging	(slang) keeping on persistently or doggedly; laboring with piston-like strokes against resistance.
	
plumbing into	examining closely in order to discover or understand.	
plumbosis	a made-up name for a disease.	
pluperfect	more than perfect; very excellent.	
Plutarch's Lives	a reference to a book written by the Greek biographer Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) which contrasts the lives of a number of Greek and Roman statesmen and generals. The actual title of the book is Parallel Lives.	
pluton	a made-up term for a part of the nervous system.	
pneutyphoid ammonicoccus	a made-up name for a disease.	
pobre	(Spanish) poor; needy.	
pocketa‑pocketa	an imitation of the regular sound made by a smoothlyrunning internal combustion engine.	
pocketa-pocketa-pocketa	an imitation of the regular sound made by a smoothly-running internal combustion engine.	
pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa	an imitation of the regular sound made by a smoothly running internal combustion engine.	
Podunk	any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village (from the name of an actual village near Hartford, Connecticut).
	
Poe	Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American short-story writer, poet and Journalist.  His tales of mystery and horror have been reprinted over and over again.  Many of his works, especially his poems, express extreme sadness and depression.	
Poe, Edgar Allen	(1809-1849) American short-story writer, poet and journalist.  His tales of mystery and horror have been reprinted over and over again.  Many of his works, especially his poems, express extreme sadness and Depression.	
poetic justice	an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.	
pogo	characteristic of the pastime of jumping on or as on a pogo stick: a stilt-like pole on which one jumps about.
the name of a very popular American comic strip, featuring an opossum named Pogo, who lived in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Pogo first appeared in a New York newspaper in 1948 and by 1952 it was syndicated in some 225 newspapers. The comic strip was produced by Walter Kelly (1913-1973), cartoonist and illustrator. Kelly commented on subjects of current interest through his comic strip	
Point Conception	a point on the southwestern extremity of the California coastline, north of Santa Barbara, California.	
point of order	a question as to whether the rules of parliamentary procedure (formal rules for debate in an assembly, club, etc.) are being observed.	
poiple	(dialect) purple.	
Poitiers	a city in west France and the scene of many battles. 	
poker, stiff as a	(informal) in a fixed and unyielding position. A poker is a metal rod for poking or stirring a fire.	
poker, still as	(informal) in a fixed and unyielding position. A poker is a metal rod for poking or stirring a fire.	
pokily	in a slow moving or lazy manner.	
polar cap	a large region of ice or other frozen matter surrounding a pole of a planet.	
Polar Times	a magazine published twice monthly since 1935 by the American Polar Society (a society founded in 1934 composed of approximately 2000 members in 30 nations who are interested in the history and exploration of the arctic and the antarctic regions).	
pole, goes up the	goes mad or out of one's senses.	
pole, gone up the	gone mad or out of one's senses.	
police book	a reference to a document registering an alien in the United Kingdom with the police.	
polio money	money supposedly received from polio victims. In the early 1960s, the FDA attempted to investigate a project which ran during the mid‑1950s and serviced public individuals who had polio., The Dianetics counseling delivered at that time was offered and given free of charge to those who answered to the advertisement for such services.
See also FDA in this glossary.	
Polo, Marco	(1254-1324) an Italian explorer and one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia.	
Polynesians	natives of Polynesia: a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and the Philippines.	
Pompeiio	a humorous reference to Pompeii, an ancient city in southwest Italy, which in A.D. 79 was destroyed (completely covered in lava) by the eruption of the nearby volcano called Mount Vesuvius.	
Pon	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of the lecture.	
Pontius something‑or ‑other	a reference to Pontius Pilate,, the governor of the Jews at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus (ca. A.D. 29); he was an official of the Roman Empire, to which the Jewish nation belonged at that time. According to the gospels, Pilate did not consider Jesus guilty and wanted to release him. Under pressure from the crowds in Jerusalem, however, Pilate sentenced Jesus to death on the cross, having first washed his hands as a symbol of getting rid of his responsibility for Jesus' fate.	
Pooh‑bah Planet	a name for a planet.	
Pope Benedict Pius Innocent, Mr.	a humorous reference to Pope Clement VII, Pope of the Catholic church from 1523-1534, who had shown himself to be unaware of the growing menace to his church from the Reformation, a religious movement that was attempting to reform the Roman Catholic Church. Further, he had aligned himself against Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1519-1558) resulting in poor relations. Charles V had Rome sacked in 1527 and Pope Clement was held prisoner for some months in one of his own castles. Later in the same year, he denied a divorce to Henry VIII, King of England, which ultimately resulted in the separation of England from the Catholic church.
See also Henry the VIII in this glossary.	
Pope Pius	Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), supreme head (pope) of the Roman Catholic Church from 1939 until his death in 1958.	
popped off	(slang) destroyed.	
poppy	(slang) a coined word from pop, father and -y, a suffix used in forming terms of endearment.	
Poppy Day	the day on which the end of World War I (November 11, 1918) is celebrated (also called Remembrance Day or Armistice Day). Artificial red poppies (recalling the poppies of Flanders fields, a strategic battleground of World War 1) are traditionally sold in aid of ex‑servicemen. These became an emblem of World War veterans based on the poem, "In Flanders Fields" written in 1915 by John McCrae (1872‑1918 physician and poet) which ‑has the following lines:
"If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields."	
Popular Mechanics	a monthly US magazine covering the fields of science/ technology, automobiles, aviation, electronics, etc.	
Port Darwin	a seaport in and capital of Northern Territory, in northern Australia.	
Port Elizabeth	a major seaport of South Africa on the Indian Ocean.	
portmanteau	combining or blending several items, features or qualities.  A portmanteau is a case or bag for carrying clothing and other necessities when traveling, originally of a form suitable for carrying on horseback.	
Portsmouth	a city in England built on Portsea Island in Portsmouth Bay. south of London. It is the site of the chief naval station and naval arsenal of Great Britain.	
poseurs	attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than one's own.	
Post	short for Washington Post: a large daily newspaper published in Washington, DC.	
Post, Emily	(1873-1960) American writer born in Baltimore, Maryland. After writing some novels on social themes she turned to becoming mentor to Americans in all matters of social behavior and etiquette, broadcasting and writing newspaper articles on these subjects. Her book Etiquette (1922) was the foundation of her reputation.	
postpartum psychosis	mental upset due to delivery of a baby.	
pot	short for potentiometer, a type of variable resistor (a device used to vary the amount of resistance in the path of electrical flow). A potentiometer can be used to increase or decrease the pressure (voltage) behind a flow of electrical energy and to change the volume of the flow.	
potassium bichromate	same as potassium dichromate: a poisonous, yellowish-red crystalline salt used in dyeing, in photography, as an oxidizing agent, etc.	
potato, drop (something) like it was a hot	(colloquial) get rid of (something dangerous, unwanted, etc.) as quickly as possible.	
Potomac	a river which forms the boundary between the US states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. At Washington, DC, which is 125 miles from its mouth, the river becomes a tidal stream on which large ships can sail.
See also Washington in this glossary.	
Poughkeepsie	a city in southeastern New York situated on the east bank of the Hudson River about 66 miles north of New York City. Its name derives from an Indian word meaning "the reed-covered lodge by the little water place."	
pound (something) home	a variation of bring (something) home, impress upon or make (something) clear.	
pounds	the basic unit of money in the United Kingdom; also called pounds sterling	
powers of creation	the people who hold power over one or who have a right to control one's activities. A variation of the phrase the powers that be.	
practical joke	a trick or prank played upon some person usually in order to have a laugh at his expense.	
Pratt & Whitney	Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, a division of the United Aircraft Corporation, who in 1927 developed the first truly successful large radial engine for airplanes.
See also radial engine in this glossary.	
Praxiteles	one of the greatest Greek sculptors of the 300s B.C.. He was excellent at portraying the human body, especially the female figure. His statues of the gods and goddesses were relaxed and human in appearance.	
prayer wheel	a mechanical means for the recitation of mantras (syllables or verses with mystical efficacy) used by Tibetan Buddhists.  The prayer wheel consists of a hollow, metal cylinder, often beautifully embossed, that is mounted on a rod.  The mantra is written on a roll of paper and inserted in the cylinder after having been properly consecrated by a lama (priest).  Each turning of the wheel by hand is equivalent to the prayer's oral recitation.  The rationale is that the mantra when properly executed has a metaphysical power of its own.  Its correct recitation, however, is difficult to learn and for the ordinary Tibetan the turning of the written word is a substitute that must be done much more frequently to make up for its lesser power.	
precesses	undergoes precession: the rotation of a spinning rigid body that has been tipped from its vertical axis by external torques (forces that act to produce rotation) acting on it.  This phenomenon is illustrated by the wobble of a top and the gyration of the Earth's axis.	
prefrontal lobotomy	a brain operation in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers. Used by psychiatry supposedly for the purpose of relieving symptoms of mental illness.	
prep school	short for preparatory school, a school where pupils are prepared for college.	
Presbyterian	a member of the Protestant denomination based on the doctrines of John Calvin and governed by elders (presbyteros is the Greek word for "elder").
See also Calvin, John in this glossary.	
Presbyterian church	a Protestant denomination based on the doctrines of John Calvin and governed by elders (presbyteros is the Greek word for "elder").
See also Calvin, John in this glossary.	
Presley, Elvis	(1935-1977) the king of American rock-and-roll from achieving stardom in 1956 through to the early 60s. Presley was a singer and guitarist known for his distinctive throaty tone and his aggressive, sexual delivery. When he first appeared on television in the 50s, the gyrations he performed while singing were considered too suggestive for broadcast and the cameras recorded him only from the waist up. one of his many famous songs was titled "All Shook Up."	
press (one's) luck	(slang) take unnecessary risks in a situation that is already favorable. A variation of push one's luck.	
press home	press or push to the point at which one is aiming. 	
pressboard	a kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small mixture of wood pulp, so called because originally used in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.	
presto chango	(slang) change immediately or suddenly, as if by magic (used as an interjection).	
presto digitanjo pretslosis	a made-up magic command. Presto, meaning fast or at once, is frequently used in making up magic commands such as presto chango, a command to change right now.	
price of fish	the issue at hand. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as the price of eggs, the price of tea in China, etc.)	
price of oranges	the issue at hand. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as the price of eggs, the price of tea in China, the price of fish, etc.)	
price of oysters in Australia	the issue at hand. (There are many variations of this phrase, such as the price of eggs, the price of tea in China, the price of fish, etc.)	
prima facie	plain or clear; self-evident; obvious.	
primary	having to do with primary school (a school in which elementary subjects are taught, comprising the first six or eight grades).	
Prime Mover Unmoved	a concept originating with the Greek philosopher Aristotle. It means the first cause of all movement, itself immovable.	
Prince Philip	Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh (1921- ), the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of England. In 1947 he became a British citizen and was created Duke of Edinburgh when he married the queen and in 1957 was entitled prince.	
Prince-Nez, Miss	a humorous made-up name for a schoolteacher.  Pince-nez are eyeglasses without side-pieces, kept in place by a spring gripping the bridge of the nose.	
Princess Pats	(military) short for Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, a unit formed by Major Andrew Hamilton Gault in Ottawa, Canada in 1914. They were named after Princess Patricia, the daughter of the Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) and granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England. Their dress uniform consisted of a red coat and a spiked helmet and they served in both World War I and II.	
Princeton	a prestigious American university located in the state of New Jersey.  It is noted for its school of public and international affairs.	
Process Zed	a made-up name for an unspecified process.	
Profumo	John Dennis Profumo (1915- ), British secretary of state for war from 1960 until 5 June 1963.  He resigned after admitting that he had lied to Parliament about an affair with Christine Keeler, who at the same time had been seeing Captain Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet attaché in London.  The moral and security aspects of the scandal fed newspaper headlines for weeks and nearly forced a general election to oust his Conservative Party.
See also Profumo witnesses in this glossary.	
Profumo witnesses	reference to the witnesses brought before trial over the Profumo exposé which concerned John Dennis Profumo (1915-), British secretary of state for war from 1960 until 5 June 1963 and Stephen Thomas Ward (1913-1963), British osteopath and society portraitist.  Ward had introduced a Christine Keeler to Profumo in the early 1960s.  In March 1963, Profumo lied to Parliament about an affair he had with Christine Keeler, who at the same time had been seeing Captain Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet attaché in London.  The moral and security aspects of the scandal fed newspaper headlines for weeks.  Ward, who was on trial for living off the earnings of prostitutes, disclosed the fact that Profumo had lied to Cabinet members earlier that year.  Keeler herself was the principal witness at Ward's trial held during the summer, although in 1962 she had been convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice with regards to two other affairs she had been involved in.  Profumo resigned from office after confessing that he had lied.	
prolixity	tending to speak at great length.	
promised (one) the sun, moon and stars	a variation of promised the moon: promised something impossible.	
proof of the pudding	a shortened version of the old proverb the proof of the pudding is in the eating, meaning that performance is the true test, not appearances, promises, etc.; just as the best test of a pudding is to eat it, not just look at it.	
propoundous propunderance	a humorous pronunciation of "profoundest preponderance." From profoundest: of the deepest meaning; of the greatest and most broadly inclusive significance and preponderance: the fact or quality of being superior in power, influence, force, etc.	
props out from underneath, pull the	(informal) a Variation of pull the rug out.
 See also rug out from underneath, pulling the in this glossary.	
pros and cons	all that can be said for or against something. Pro is a Latin word meaning "for." con is a contraction of contra (Latin for "against").	
prove out	be established as correct or workable; be tested (a system or process) exhaustively.
withstand exhaustive testing.	
proving (something) up	fully documenting (something) and demonstrating it to be a fact.	
provost marshal	(military) an officer acting as head of police in a camp or district and charged with the maintenance of order, etc.	
Prudential Life Insurance	the name of a major life and health insurance company in the US.	
Prussianism	the militaristic spirit, system, policy or methods historically associated with the Prussians, the natives and inhabitants of the former state in north-central Germany which became a military power in the eighteenth century. The Prussians are often depicted as authoritarian, militaristic and extremely orderly, a characterization based on the unswerving obedience of their army.	
psyche	a Greek word meaning spirit.	
psychiatric	of or having to do with psychiatry.
See also psychiatry in this glossary.	
psychiatrically	like, characteristic of or suitable to psychiatry.
See also psychiatry in this glossary.	
psychiatrist	a physician engaged in the practice of psychiatry, the supposed practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
See also psychiatry in this glossary.	
psychiatrosis	a humorously coined word from psychiatry, and -osis, a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions or states, especially disordered or abnormal states.
See also psychiatry in this glossary.	
psychiatry	the supposed medical practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.	
psychic	of or pertaining to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).	
psycho	short for psychotic. , a person charaeterized by or afflieted with psychosis.
an individual who is out of contact to a thorough extent with his present time environment and who does not compute into the future. He may be an acute psychotic wherein he becomes psychotic for only a few minutes at a time and only occasionally in certain environments (as in rages or apathies) or he may be a chronic psychotic, or in a continual disconnection with the future and present. Psychotics who are dramatically harmful to others are considered dangerous enough to be put away. Psychotics who are harmful on a less dramatic basis are no less harmful to their environment and are no less psychotic.
See psychotic in this glossary.	
psychoanalysis	a system of mental therapy developed in 1894 by Sigmund Freud. It depended upon the following practices for its effects: The patient was made to talk about and recall his childhood for years while the practitioner brought about a transfer of the patient's personality to his own and searched for hidden sexual incidents believed by Freud to be the only cause of aberration. The practitioner read sexual significances into all statements and evaluated them for the patient along sexual lines. Each of these points later proved to be based upon false premises and incomplete research, accounting for their lack of result and the subsequent failure of the subject and its offshoots. Also called Freudian analysis.	
psychoanalysm	a coined term meaning the doctrine, school or theory of psychoanalyst's, 
See also psychoanalysis in this glossary.	
psychoanalyst	one who practices psychoanalysis: 
See also psychoanalysis in this glossary.	
psycho‑anal‑yst	a derogatory play on the words psychoanalyst and anal. A psychoanalyst is one who practices psychoanalysis.
See also psychoanalysm in this glossary.	
psychoanalytic	of or having to do with psychoanalysis, the mental therapy developed by Sigmund Freud in Austria in 1894.
See also psychoanalysis in this glossary.	
psychoanalyzed	subjected to or treated with psychoanalysis.
See also psychoanalysis in this glossary.	
psycho-drams	a made-up word. 	
psychogalvanometer	(medical) a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring changes in the electrical conductivity of the skin associated with emotional changes. It is one of the types of lie detectors supposedly used to determine if a person is telling the truth.	
psychological	of or using psychology, the study of the human brain and stimulus-response mechanisms.  It states that "Man, to be happy, must adjust to his environment." In other words, man, to be happy, must be a total effect.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
psychologically	of or using psychology.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
psychologist	one who practices psychology.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
psychologosis	a coined word from psychology, and -osis, a suffix meaning an abnormal or diseased condition.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
psychology	the study of the human brain and stimulus-response mechanisms. Psychology states that "Man, to be happy, must adjust to his environment." In other words, man, to be happy, must be a total effect.
of or having to do with the study of the human brain and stimulus-response mechanisms.	
psychometric test	a test for the measurement of mental traits, abilities and processes.	
psychometric tests	tests for the measurement of mental traits, abilities and processes.	
psychoneurotic	neurotic: exhibiting behavior characteristic of one who is insane or disturbed on some subject (as opposed to a psychotic, who is just insane in general). 	
psychos	individuals who are psychotic.
See also psychotics in this glossary.	
psychosis	any severe form of mental disorder; insanity.
See also psychotic in this glossary.	
psychosomatic	a term used in common parlance to denote a condition "resulting from a state of mind." Such illnesses account for about 70 percent of all ills, by popular report. Technically, in this science, a chronic or continuing painful facsimile to which the preclear is holding to account for failures.	
psychosomatics	See psychosomatic in this glossary.	
psychotherapy	treatment of mental disorder by any of various means including suggestion, counseling, psychoanalysis, etc.	
psychotic	In Scientology, a psychotic is classified as a person who is physically or mentally harmful to those about one, out of proportion to the amount of use one is.
a person characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. In psychiatry, psychosis is any major form of mental affliction or disease.
of or pertaining to psychoses, major forms of mental affliction or disease; insane.
insane; characterized by psychosis.	
psychotic break	(psychiatry) a mental collapse or breakdown whereby a person is severely disoriented and/or introverted.	
psychotics	persons who are physically or mentally harmful to those about them out of Proportion to the amount of use they are to them.	
psyrologist	a coined variation of psychologist.	
psyrology	a coined variation of psychology.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
PTA	an abbreviation for Parent-Teacher Association, an organization of the parents and teachers of a school, established to improve the environment of the community for children, especially by supporting the activities of the school.	
public health	measures taken to maintain and improve the general level of health, as by preventive medicine, immunization, sanitation and the organization of medical and hospital facilities.	
Public Local Number 18	a made-up name for a US public school (a free school maintained by taxes, especially elementary or secondary school).  In the US, schools in large metropolitan school districts are often numbered rather than named.	
pudding, proof of the	a shortened version of the old proverb the proof of the pudding is in the eating, meaning that performance is the true test, not appearances, promises, etc.; just as the best test of a pudding is to eat it, not just look at it.	
pudding, test of any	a Variation of the proof of the pudding is in the eating.  
See pudding, proof of this in this glossary.	
puddle around	(figurative) busy oneself in an untidy or disorderly way; to muddle or mess about.	
Pujas River Project	a made-up name for a project.	
pulled a couple of rabbits out of the hat	a variation of produced the rabbit out of the hat, produced unexpectedly an answer or solution, etc., when success appears impossible or the situation seems hopeless; an allusion to the magician's art.	
pulling the rug out	(informal) removing the support of (a theory, etc.).	
pump up	get worked up by great effort.	
pumped up	inflated, as if by air.	
Pumpkin Center	a made-up name for a place, from pumpkin: a small town or rural community; a rustic place; a town in the sticks (rural or suburban areas).	
Punahs	a made‑up name for a tribe.	
Punch	a well-known comic weekly journal, published in London. It first appeared in 1841 under the editorship of Mark Lemon and Henry Mayhew. The cover design for many issues featured the assumed editor, "Mr. Punch," the hero in the puppet play "Punch and Judy," frequently seen in England. Punch has a humped back, a hooked nose and a fierce temper. He was constantly beating people with his stick, including Judy (his wife) and their baby.	
punch (something) home	show (something) clearly; emphasize (something); make (someone) realize; demonstrate (something).	
Punch and Judy	the two characters, husband and wife, in puppet shows frequently seen in England. Punch had a humped back, a hooked nose and a fierce temper.	
punch home	show clearly; emphasize; make (someone) realize; demonstrate.	
Punch, alive as	very much alive.  From Punch, the main character in puppet shows frequently seen in England.  Punch had a humped back, a hooked nose and a fierce temper.  He was constantly beating people with his stick, including Judy (his wife) and their baby.	
punch, pull a	soften a blow; be lenient and moderate.	
Punic Wars	in ancient history, the three struggles between Rome and Carthage. The name  Punic, meaning Phoenician, is a Roman term for the Carthaginians because they had  once been a colony founded by the Phoenicians in northern Africa. The First Punic  War was fought from 264-241 B.C., the second from 218-201 B.C. and the third from  149-146 B.C. Rome was victorious in all three wars.	
pup, sicker than a	(colloquial) a Variation of sick as a dog, extremely or violently sick.	
puppy to the root	a coined phrase denoting completeness or thoroughness, like a young dog (puppy) persistently digging, tracking or trailing something	
Purcell	a person who tried to seize Dianetics in 1951.	
Pure Food and Drug Act	a US law passed in 1906 with the stated purpose of removing harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulating the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade. This law paved the way for the foundation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).	
Puritan	having to do with the group of radical English Protestants that arose in the late sixteenth century and became a major force in England during the seventeenth century. Puritans wanted to "purify" the Church of England by eliminating traces of its origins to the Roman Catholic Church. They urged a strict moral code. Their influence spread during the seventeenth century to include Holland and America. Many Puritans were persecuted in their homeland and went to America, settling the colonies that eventually became Massachusetts.	
Puritans	a group of radical English Protestants that arose in the late sixteenth century and became a major force in England during the seventeenth century. Puritans wanted to "purify" the Church of England by eliminating traces of its origins to the Roman Catholic Church. They urged a strict moral code. Their influence spread during the seventeenth century to include Holland and America. Many Puritans were persecuted in their homeland and went to America, settling the colonies that eventually became Massachusetts.	
push (something) home	show (something) clearly; emphasize or demonstrate (something). A variation of punch (something) home or bring (something) home.	
put (something) to bed	complete, forget about or have no further concern with (something). A variation of lay to rest.	
put off	(colloquial) pushed or sent off.	
putty on the end of (one's) nose	a humorous reference to the use of makeup putty, as in theater or cinematography, to create a particular look or image.	
pyramid of skulls	a reference to one of the terrorist tactics of Genghis Khan who, if a town resisted his conquest, would have the entire population massacred, leaving the bodies to rot and sometimes the heads of the victims stacked in a huge pile or pyramid as a gruesome monument to his mercilessness toward those who resisted him.
See also Genghis Khan in this glossary.	
Pythagoras	(ca. 582-500 B.C.) Greek philosopher, mathematician and religious reformer.	
Q factor	short for quality factor.	
Q., Maisy	a made‑up name for a person.	
quack	a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge or qualifications he or she does not possess.	
quadjillion	a made‑up name for a number to indicate a huge amount of something.	
quarter	a coin equal to one-fourth of a US or Canadian dollar.	
quasily	seemingly; virtually.	
que	(Spanish) what.	
Queen Elizabeth	the largest passenger liner ever built. This British ship was launched in 1938 transporting troops in World War 11 and entered regular transatlantic service in 1946. The ship was 1,013 feet long, and weighed 83,673 tons.	
Queen Mary	a large, famous British luxury liner, built in the 1930s, weighing 81,237 tons and carrying a crew of approximately 1,000 with a capacity for approximately 2,000 passengers.	
Queen Victoria hat	a type of headdress worn by women during the 1930s and 40s which reflected those of the Victorian era (1837-1901, the reign of Queen Victoria in England). This was composed of a net worn over the hair, often having a small hat attached.	
Quelquefois, que magnifique	(French) literally, "sometimes, how magnificent!"	
Quentin	the eldest son of L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard.	
Quetzalcoatl	(ca.  A.D. ll00) ancient god and legendary ruler of the Toltecs (an Indian people that ruled the central Mexican highlands from about A.D. 900-1200) in Mexico.  He is credited with the discovery of maize, the arts, science and the calendar.  He encouraged road building, commerce and revived learning.  After his death he was deified as the Feathered Serpent, god of the winds, of peace and of industry.	
quick on the draw	quick thinking; quick to comprehend. From the image of a Western gunfighter drawing a gun.	
quintuplicate, in	in sets of five.	
Quirino	Philip Quirino, a Saint Hill staff member at the time of the lecture.	
Quito	a city in and the capital of Ecuador, in the northern part.	
rabbit	the mechanical rabbit that circles a greyhound dog racing track on an electrified rail. This rabbit was invented by an American, Oliver P. Smith, in 1919. Earlier, dogs raced after live rabbits.	
races, off to the	an expression used to indicate the start of something, as a course of action.	
Racine	the third largest city in the state of Wisconsin and an important industrial center of more than 170 industries.	
rack	a coined word for a needle movement on the E-Meter.	
rack up	(US informal) accumulate; amass.	
racking	driving or moving.	
racking around	straining; tasking severely; putting pressure upon (the mind, brain, etc.).	
racking it up	(slang) injuring, wrecking or destroying (it).	
racking up	(US informal) accumulating; amassing	
rack-up	the achievement, scoring or amassing.	
radial engine	an internal combustion engine with cylinders arranged radially like the spokes in a wheel, and a rotating crankshaft which turns the propeller.	
radial prop	a propeller connected to a radial engine, an internal combustion engine with cylinders  arranged radially like the spokes in a wheel, and a rotating crankshaft which turns the  propeller.	
Radio Luxembourg	the name of one of the most powerful and modern radio stations in the world, covering all of Europe.  In contrast to most European stations, it is a commercial station, depending on sponsored programs for most of its income.
See also Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in this glossary.	
raggle‑taggled	a coined word from rag‑tag, raggedy, unkempt, disorderly, etc.	
rah-rah	(informal) a person or thing marked by or expressive of ardently enthusiastic spirit. From a shout of support or encouragement such as exhibited at a college football game.	
rails, off the	into a disorganized or confused state.	
rails, on the	(informal) properly organized; working or acting correctly. A reference to the rails that a train runs on.	
rain, out in the	a variation of out in the cold, neglected; ignored; forgotten.	
rain, right as	(informal) quite all right, especially when compared with what might be expected or an earlier condition 	
rainbarrel	a barrel used to collect rain water for drinking or washing	
raise so much Cain	(slang) become angry or violent; make an angry fuss or noisy disturbance. An allusion to Cain's (first son of Adam and Eve) violent anger which drove him to kill his brother, Abel.	
raised corn	(slang) something created or done that is inane, fatuous or sappy.  A humorous pun on the dual meaning of "corn," which can denote either something foolish or silly, or the plant itself.	
raises the devil	(slang) creates a disturbance; causes trouble.	
rally round the flag, boys	a line from the song "The Battle Cry of Freedom" by George Frederick Root (1820‑1895), an American composer who is best remembered for his patriotic songs. It was sung to build enthusiasm for the North (the northern area of the United States, which fought to preserve the Union) during the American Civil War (18611865) and contains the following lines:
"Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again,
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom,
We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain,
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom."
See also "Dixe" in this glossary	
Rameses II	(9-1234 B.C.) one of the most famous of the Egyptian Pharaohs (kings). He reigned longer than any other Egyptian ruler and is known for the building of many temples and the construction of other public works.	
ramparts, roll in the	(colloquial) a variation of roll in the aisles: laugh uncontrollably.	
Rand	the basic monetary unit of South Africa.
of The Rand, short for Witwatersrand, a rocky ridge in South Africa near Johannesburg  which is a major gold-mining area.	
Raphael's little doll	reference to a fresco painted by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) in Rome, Italy.  Raphael was one of the greatest painters and architects of the Italian Renaissance and was often called the "Divine Raphael" and the "Prince of Italian Painting." In Rome, he worked on papal commissions and also for the cardinals, the princes and merchants; the most important of these private patrons was a banker for whom Raphael painted 12 paintings decorating wall and ceiling of the villa now known as the Farnesina.  This included the Legend of Cupid and Psyche (1517-1518, unfinished) executed mainly by his pupils under his guidance.	
rapide	(French) rapid, fast, swift.	
rat race	(informal) an endless scramble and confusion; tiring but inescapable routine.	
rattle a few more sabers	reference to saber-rattling: a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.	
rattledy-bang	a coined word from rattled: agitated, confused, frightened; the suffix -y: a condition or quality, and bang: a sudden movement or loud noise.	
rattlety-bang	a coined word for the rustling of a sheet of paper. Rattle means the rustling quality of a sheet of finished paper when handled, indicative of its hardness and density.	
raw meat	(slang) someone inexperienced or untrained. The expression is sometimes used in Scientology to refer to someone who has not yet had Scientology processing or training and as such might think he is a brain or a body (hence the word meat) and not know that he is really a spiritual being, a thetan.	
Ray	a staff member at HASI London at the time of the lecture.	
razor edge	(informal) a very uncertain state or risky condition.  Used figuratively in this lecture.	
razzle-dazzled	(slang) confused, bewildered or deceived by a flashy display.	
RC	an abbreviation for Roman Catholic.	
Reader's Digest	a pocket-sized US magazine (1922- ) that reprints in condensed form articles from other periodicals.	
reap the whirlwind	short for sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, to engage in and suffer the consequences of  evil or folly.	
Recorder of Wills and Testaments	the public officer who keeps the records and disposes (arranges matters and settles affairs) of deceased persons' real estate and personal property.	
rectabulous skootum	a made-up name for a body part.	
Red Badge of Courage	a novel from the late nineteenth century by the American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900), about a young man whose romantic notions of heroism in combat are shattered when he fights in the American Civil War (1861-1865).	
red death	a coined name for the measles, a disease which causes small red spots on the skin, a high fever and is highly contagious. In isolated communities that have long been free from epidemics of measles, introduction of infection can be followed by a devastating epidemic which can result in death.	
red flag	(colloquial) something serving as a warning of trouble or danger ahead; a sign of danger.	
red hands and black heads	a coined expression for having done evil. Red hands comes from red-handed, so called from the idea of a murderer caught with the blood of his victim on his hands. Black heads implies the black hoods traditionally worn by executors to hide their identity.	
red herring	something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue. Red herring is herring that has been cured by smoke, a process that changes the color of the flesh to a reddish hue. Its persistent odor is very useful, if trailed over the ground, for training a dog to follow a scent. But a dog which gets a good whiff of red herring will lose any other scent that it has been following. Criminals who have been chased by bloodhounds have used this knowledge to advantage. Thus the expression to drag a red herring over the trail and similar expressions are used to refer to anything which misleads one or causes one to lose the trail.	
Red Square	a large plaza in Moscow in which great demonstrations, sport and military parades are held.  Bordering on Red Square is the Kremlin, a large fortress which is the seat of the government of the Soviet Union.	
redcoats	British soldiers in uniforms with red coats, as during the American Revolution (war for American independence from Britain, 1775 to 1783).	
reduotio ad absurdum	(Latin) proof of the falsity of a principle by demonstrating that its logical consequence involves an absurdity. Literally, "reduction to absurdity." It is used loosely of taking an argument or principle to impractical lengths. Example: "The more sleep one has the longer one lives. To sleep all the time ensures the longest possible life."	
Reg	a staff member at Saint Hill at the time of the lecture.
a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course Instructor	
Reich, Wilhelm	(1897-1957) Austrian psychiatrist and social critic. Even before his graduation from the University of Vienna he began practice as a psychoanalyst and became influential in this movement. His practice expanded from Austria into Germany where, as a member of the Communist Party, he attempted to integrate his work as a sex counselor into the broader revolutionary movement. Reich’s activities were suspect by the leaders of the Communist Party and, at the time of Hitler’s assumption to power in Germany in 1933, he was forced to flee to Denmark. Later that year he was ousted from the Communist Party as a result of a work he published against official communistic doctrine. After attacks by other psychiatrists and the press he left Denmark for Sweden and a short while later went on to Norway. In 1937 his detractors reached him in Norway and he moved to the US and practiced there for many years. In the last years of his life, Reich showed little interest in psychiatry, devoting his efforts to discoveries in the field of physics. In 1956 he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for disobeying a government injunction which the Food and Drug Administration had obtained against him, ordering destruction of all orgone boxes, his journals and books. He died while in prison a year later.
See also orazone, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in this glossary.	
Reigate	a residential suburb of London.	
Reilly, the life of	a life of luxury. From a comic song, "Is That Mr. Reilly," popular in the USA in the 1880s. The song described what the hero would do if he "struck it rich."	
Rembrandt	Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch painter and etcher; considered one of the greatest painters in history. He received his most valuable training in the Amsterdam studio of Pieter Lastman (1583-1633), Dutch painter and engraver, who influenced Rembrandt's sense of composition and frequent choice of religious and historical themes.
See also Flemish school in this glossary.	
Rembrandt Profile	the name of a profile portraiture technique using Rembrandt lighting: one plane of the side of the face fully illuminated and another plane of the same side is in shadow, creating a mysterious and dramatic effect.  This style of lighting is called "Rembrandt" because he used it in many of his paintings.	
Remington	a firearms manufacturer in the US established by Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861), American inventor and gunsmith. Trained in blacksmithing, he forged a rifle barrel for himself out of scrap iron; this led to his making guns for others and eventually to establishing a firearms factory and supplying firearms on government contracts.	
Renaissance	the great revival of art, literature and learning in Europe in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, based on classical (Greek and Roman) sources.  It began in Italy and spread gradually to other countries and marked the transition from the medieval world (from about A.D. 500 to 1450) to the modern.	
Reno	the largest city in the state of Nevada; famed as a tourist attraction and playground center.	
Republican	a member of or having to do with the Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the US, organized in 1854, originally as a political party against slavery and later as favoring an extension of the powers of the national government.
See also Democrat in this glossary.	
résumé	a summing up; summary.	
revving	(colloquial) increasing the revolutions per minute of (an engine, motor, etc.) usually done while idling to produce a quick start. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Rhine	Joseph Banks Rhine (1895‑1980), American psychologist. As head of the laboratory of parapsychology at Duke University, North Carolina, he investigated extrasensory perception and tried to find scientific explanations for "supernatural" occurrences, e.g., telepathy, etc.	
Rhodes scholar	a holder of a Rhodes scholarship: a scholarship for study at Oxford University in Oxford, England.  Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), an English financier, established these grants to train potential leaders.  They are designed for students from Germany, from nations formerly part of the British Empire and the United States.  Rhodes scholars are chosen for ability, moral character and success in sports.	
rhodies	short for rhododendron, any of a group of trees and shrubs, mainly evergreen, with showy flowers of pink, white or purple.	
rhomboid tetrascrewdron	a made-up name for a geometrical figure.	
rhombolis	a made-up word.	
rhombosis	a made-up word for a disease.	
Rice Institute	a coeducational, privately controlled university occupying 300 acres in Houston, Texas that was founded in 1891. The divisions of the institute include sciences, science-engineering and architecture.	
rickle‑rackle	a coined term from rickle, a heap or pile, especially one loosely built up; a collection of odds and ends heaped up together; and rackle, meaning rattle, clatter, clank.	
rico	(Spanish) the rich, the wealthy.	
riding	(informal) continuing without interruption or interference. 	
riding high	enjoying success; doing very well.	
rig	a fraudulent scheme; swindle. I have found—I've found Lucifer out today.	
rigged up	equipped or set up for use.	
right off your bat	(informal) a variation of right off the bat; immediately; as the next thing in order; without delay.	
right on the bat	(slang) a variation of right on the money: absolutely perfect; precisely as desired; done with great accuracy or expertise.	
righto	(informal) all right; okay.	
rile	(informal) annoy; irritate.	
ring, number four	(archery) a reference to a target which consists of concentric rings circling the bull's-eye (the center). The fourth ring is the one closest to the center, the first ring being the outermost one. The object is to hit the bull's-eye and thereby make the highest points possible.	
ring-around-the-rosy	a children's game in which the singing players skip around in a circle and drop to the floor on the song's last line. Also known as "Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses" from the following rhyme:
"Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down."	
ring-tailed snorter	a coined word from ring-tailed, having a coiled tail and snorter, a pig.	
rip up	(colloquial) move with speed or violence.	
Ritz Biltmore	a made-up name for a hotel. 	
Ritz Building	a made-up name for a building. Ritz is the name of luxurious, plush hotels in London, Paris and New York founded by C6sar Ritz (1850-1918), Swiss hotel owner.	
river, up the	(slang) a variation of up the creek without a paddle, in serious difficulty; very unfortunate; ruined.	
Riverside	a city in southwest California, a state in the United States.	
Riverside Drive	a thoroughfare in New York City which runs along the west side of the city next to the Hudson River.	
road, on the	a variation of on the rails, in the proper or normal condition.	
roaring	complete; utter; out-and-out.
(colloquial) full of enthusiasm.	
Robin Hood's barn, go around	arrive at the right conclusion by very roundabout methods. From the fact that Robin Hood had no barn, his granary was the cornfields of the neighborhood. To go around his barn was to make a circuitous route around the neighboring fields.	
Robin Hood's left field	a coined phrase from the expression go around Robin Hood's barn and left field, a position or circumstance that is remote from an ordinary or general trend.
See also Robin Hood's barn, go around in this glossary.	
Rock of Gibraltar	a huge limestone mass at the southern tip of Spain, extending into the Mediterranean. Its seeming impregnability (not capable of being captured or entered by force) as a fortress during several wars led to the saying: "solid as the Rock of Gibraltar."	
Rock-e-feller	a humorous pronunciation of Rockefeller, in reference to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979).  He was the grandson of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), American industrialist and founder of the Standard Oil Company.  As such, Nelson was heir to a fortune of legendary proportions.  His activity in New York state politics led to his election as governor in 1958 and to re-election in 1962, 1966 and 1970.  He failed, however, in his attempts to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1960, 1964 and later in 1968.	
Rockers	(British slang) a group of Teenagers wearing leather jackets and jeans and traveling in gangs on motorcycles.  One of two rival factions of Teenagers in Britain in the 1960s, the Mods being the other side.
See also Mods in this glossary.	
rocket jockey	(slang) an astronaut.	
rocket jockeys	(slang) astronauts.	
rocking	shaking or disturbing violently.	
Rockmount Foundation	a made-up name for a foundation.	
rocks, on the	(colloquial) in or into a condition of ruin or catastrophe.
into a condition of ruin or failure; wreck; ruin. From seafaring, where a ship that is on the rocks will very quickly go to pieces unless she can be floated off.	
Rodin	Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). He was considered the greatest French sculptor of his time. As a realist he believed that the artist should be inspired by nature. One of his most famous sculptures was The Thinker. Rodin's later works included portraits and monumental representations of famous figures.
See also Thinker in this glossary.	
Rogers, Buck	the star of a science fiction adventure of interplanetary travel and battles against evil.  Buck first appeared in comic strips and radio shows.  Later a television program aired from 1950-1951 entitled "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Per the story, Buck was rendered unconscious by a peculiar gas which placed him in a state of suspended animation.  When he awakened it was the year 2430.	
Rogers, Don	a staff member who worked at the Dianetics organization in Elizabeth, New Jersey in the early 1950s.	
roll 'em	(cinematography) a command to start filming; run or start a movie camera. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
roll up (one's) sleeves	get ready for a hard job; prepare to work hard or seriously.	
Rollei	the brand name of high-quality photographic equipment produced since the early 1900s by a German firm named Franke and Heidecke.
short for Rolleiflex: the name of a high quality twin-lens reflex camera.	
rolling stone never has to work, a	a humorous variation of a rolling stone gathers no moss, a proverb now having two meanings: people pay a price for being always on the move: they have no roots in a specific place (the original meaning); or people who keep moving avoid picking up responsibilities and cares.	
rolling with the punches	behaving so as to defend oneself against damage and surprise; absorbing punishment and surviving.  From the evasive action of a boxer who does not avoid a punch but reduces its effect by moving in the direction of the blow.	
Rollo	a masculine proper name, a form of Rolf.	
Rolls-Royce	a brand of car, noted as being of the highest quality.	
rolly coaster	(like) a railway for amusement consisting of inclined tracks along which small cars roll, abruptly dip, turn, etc.
same as roller coaster:	
Roman	of or pertaining to the Roman Empire: the empire of ancient Rome that lasted from 27 B.C., when it was established by Augustus, to A.D. 395, when it was divided into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire.	
Roman arena	the central part of an ancient Roman amphitheater, wherein slave, captive or paid fighters (called gladiators) fought each other and also wild beasts.	
Roman candle	a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.	
Roman Catholic	a member of the Roman Catholic Church, that branch of Christianity (the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ) headed by the Pope.	
Roman Catholic Church	the branch of Christianity (the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ) headed by the pope.	
Roman Empire	the empire of ancient Rome that lasted from 27 B.C., when it was established by Augustus, to A.D. 395, when it was divided into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire.	
Roman legions	(Roman history) Roman military divisions varying at times from 3,000 to 6,000 foot soldiers, with additional cavalrymen.
See also Roman in this glossary.	
Roman postulate	a reference to the idea among the ancient Romans that no matter what happened to the world, no matter how many other empires might rise and fall, Rome would go on forever, that Rome was an empire without end, an eternal city.	
Roman year	a reference to the ancient calendar devised and used by the Romans. Very early in their history, the Romans began basing their calendar on the idea that 12 lunar months make a year. Each lunar month (from new moon to new moon) is about 291/2 days, so the Roman year came to 354 days. But the true solar year (the time it takes the Earth to circle the sun) is just under 365V4 days. The Romans made up for the difference by adding an extra month every few years.	
Rome	the capital of Italy; it was also the capital of the ancient Roman republic and of the Roman Empire (the empire of ancient Rome that lasted from 27 B.C., when it was established by Augustus, to A.D. 395, when it was divided into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire).
. See also Roman Empire in this glossary.	
Rommel	Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), a German military commander of the twentieth century. A master of the blitzkrieg, he saw much action in World War II, leading campaigns in France, Italy and north Africa where he became known as the "Desert Fox." He attained the rank of field marshal but was implicated in a plot to assassinate the German leader, Adolf Hitler. On Hitler's orders, he killed himself.
See also blitzkrieg and Tobruk in this glossary.	
Ronson	(trademark) the brand name of a cigarette lighter.	
roodles, round of	a version of poker (a card game where players bet on the value of the cards in their hands, forming a pool to be taken by the winner). In a round of roodles every player must ante (put one's stake into the pool before receiving cards) and the limit is usually doubled making very high stakes for the winner. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
roof falls in, the	(colloquial) something disastrous occurs; everything goes wrong.	
roof, go through the	(informal) become very angry.	
roof, going out through the	(informal) becoming very angry.	
roof, going straight through the	(informal) becoming very angry.	
roof's the limit, the	(informal) a Variation of the expression the sky’s the limit: there are no limits.	
Roosevelt	Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), thirty-second president of the US from 1933 to 1945.  He became president near the beginning of a major economic depression and continued in office through re-election based on promises to relieve the strife it caused.  The early part of his presidency is remembered for a group of government programs designed to reverse the effects of the economic depression.  He used the radio to build public support for his policies; however, his programs resulted in inflation and less production. 	
Roosevelt plowed under pigs	a reference to the actions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.	
Rooseveltism	the doctrine or policy of Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt.	
rope chair	a chair in a procedure for hanging a person on which the sentenced person would stand in order to reach the hangman's rope. When the chair was pulled out from under the person, he would drop down causing the rope to draw tight around the neck thus bringing about his death.	
ropes, left (one) hanging on the	left (one) undecided or unsettled. A variation of leave hanging in the air.	
ropes, put (one) through all of the	(informal) a variation of show (one) the ropes, teach (one) the workings of a business, method, organization, etc. The expression comes from sailing and means to make one familiar with the ropes that control the sails of a ship.	
Rorschach	(psychology) a psychological test which uses a standard series of ten inkblot designs to which the subject responds by telling what image or emotion each design evokes.	
Roscoe	a masculine proper name; used in this lecture in reference to a made-up person.	
Rosicrucianist	a person who practices Rosicrucianism: the practices or principles of persons in the 17th and 18th centuries that belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion. Rosicrucian societies still exist.	
Rosicrucians	persons in the 17th and 18th centuries who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion. Rosicrucian societies still exist.	
Rotten Row	a horse-riding track in the fashionable section of Hyde Park in London, England.
See also Hyde Park in this glossary.	
rounced	(dialect) agitated, stirred; flounced about.	
round of roodles	a version of poker (a card game where players bet on the value of the cards in their hands, forming a pool to be taken by the winner). In a round of roodles every player must ante (put one's stake into the pool before receiving cards) and the limit is usually doubled making very high stakes for the winner. Often used figuratively.	
Roundheads	a term applied to the English Puritans who were adherents of the Parliamentary Party during the English Civil War (1642-1651) and after. They fought to overthrow the King of England, his supporters (the Royalists) and the Roman Catholic Church, which the Puritans were attempting to "purify." They were called Roundheads because they wore their hair cut short, while that of their opposition (the Royalists) was worn long, covering their shoulders.
See also Puritan in this glossary.	
route march	(military) a march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step and without requiring keeping silence.	
Rover	a familiar name for a dog.	
Royal Festival Hall	a concert hall in London, England.	
Royal Navy	the British Navy.	
Royal Northwest Mounted Police	a police force organized in 1873 as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian Far West and especially to prevent Indian disorders. In 1904 the name was changed to the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and in 1920 to its present title, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.	
Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman	a member of the police force organized in 1873 as the Northwest Mounted Police.	
Royal Order of Coconut	a made-up name for a group.	
royal road	an easy way of reaching an objective. From a saying by Euclid (ca. 300 B.C., an ancient mathematician and founder of geometry), "There is no royal road to geometry."	
rubber burning, smell the	a reference to the smell of smoke caused by abrupt and forceful application of the brakes (made of rubber) on the wheels of a fast-moving vehicle.  Used figuratively in the lecture.	
rubber hoses	hoses made of rubber, sometimes used for beating people.	
rubber smoking, smell the	a reference to the smell of smoke caused by abrupt and forceful application of the brakes (made of rubber) on the wheels of a fast-moving vehicle. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
rubbing elbows	associating or mingling with.	
Rube Goldbergian	like the cartoon mechanical devices of absurdly unnecessary complexity drawn by Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), American cartoonist.	
Rubens	Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), diplomat, scholar and the most famous Flemish painter of his time.  He painted historical and religious scenes, landscapes and portraits of kings, statesmen, friends and family members.  Rubens’ pictures are full of action and crowded with figures.  He is especially noted for his brilliant coloring.	
rudder, right standard	a command to direct the rudder to the right according to a preset standard as determined by the officer in command.	
ruddy	(British slang) damned.	
ruddy bar	a made-up term.	
ruddy rod	a made-up term.	
ruddy rods	a made-up term.	
Rue Morgue murders	reference to The Murders of the Rue Morgue: the story written by Edgar Alan Poe in 1841 of a mother and daughter who are brutally murdered in a crime that baffles the police.  Poe's amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, solves the mystery.	
rug out from underneath, pulling the	(informal) removing the support of (a theory, etc.).	
rug out, pull the	(informal) remove the support (of a theory, etc.).	
rug out, pulled the	ceased to give important support or help (to someone or something), especially without giving any warning.	
rug right out from underneath, cut the	cease to give important support or help to (someone or something), especially without giving any warning.  A Variation of pull the rug out from under.	
ruleth	a humorous variation of the word "rule," adding -eth which is an archaic ending for a word.	
run up	amass; incur.	
run, in the long	finally; after everything has been considered.	
runt	a made-up word for a kind of money.  Runt means anything undersized.	
Rupf	a made-up name for a place.	
Rusk	David Dean Rusk (1909- ) American statesman; president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1952-1960), US secretary of state (1961-1969) under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He took a leading role in negotiating for the nuclear test ban treaty (1963) but was a prominent advocate of the Vietnam war (1954-1975).	
Ruskian	belonging to David Dean Rusk.
See also Rusk in this glossary.	
Russell, Charlie	Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), one of the greatest and most popular painters of the American West. He earned his living as a trapper and cowboy, and later in life translated his passion for adventure and American wildlife onto canvas.	
Russian never went, like the	an allusion to Russian cosmonaut Yury Gagarin who, on 12 April 1961 (several months before the lecture) became the first man to orbit the Earth.	
Russian Revolution	a revolution in Russia (1917-1918), also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist Party, to power. The revolution was encouraged by Russian setbacks in World War I.	
Russian year	a reference to 1961 being the year when the Russians made major advances in science, technology and space travel. For example they were the first to launch a man into outerspace (ahead of the Americans).	
Russki	(slang) Russian.  A reference to Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924), Russian communist leader.  He was an agitator for socialism.  During World War I he urged socialists in all countries to rise against their own governments, and he assumed leadership of the Russian Revolution in 1917.	
Rylah and Rylah	a contrived name in derisive reference to a law firm of Melbourne solicitors used by the Church of Scientolo‑av at the time of this lecture. Neither of their names were Rylah. H.J. Rylah was actually the name of the attorney general in Victoria who was involved in an attack against Scientology.	
sad apple	a gloomy person, frequently irritable, introverted, or pessimistic; usually a person unnoticed socially.	
Sad Bottom	a made-up name for a place.	
sad tomato	(slang) a gloomy person, frequently irritable, introverted, or pessimistic; usually a person unnoticed socially. A variation of sad apple.	
Safeway	a major American supermarket chain.	
Sahara Desert	a very large desert region in North Africa. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Saint Elizabeth's Hospital	a government supported psychiatrie hospital in Washington, DC.	
Saint Francis of Assisi	(1182-1286) Italian monk and teacher, popularly associated with reverence for animals as part of God's creation. He is often depicted preaching to birds.	
Saint Paul’s Cathedral	a world-famous cathedral in London, England, recognizable by its huge dome which is 364 feet high.	
Saint Paul's	Saint Paul's Cathedral, a cathedral in London, England, recognizable by its huge dome which is 364 feet high.	
Saint Peter	(?-A.D. 67), apostle of Jesus Christ. Peter, a fisherman on the sea of Galilee, lived with his wife at Capernaum. One of the first apostles, he was regarded by Jesus with special affection. He was the first to hail Jesus as Messiah, but just before the crucifixion, he denied three times that he had any connection with Jesus. He became the acknowledged leader of the earliest Christian community. Peter is often represented in art holding keys, as the gatekeeper of Heaven.	
saints	an oath or exclamation.	
Saints Come Marching In	"When the Saints Go Marching In," an American spiritual.	
Salinas Valley	a river valley, of west central California in the United States. The area was initially a cattle center when it was established in 1856. With the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1868, agricultural development (lettuce, artichokes, celery and sugar beets) was stimulated.	
Salisbury	the former name of Harare: the eapital of Zimbabwe (earlier Southern Rhodesia); a commercial and industrial center ineluding gold mines, steel mills and textile plants.	
Salk vaccine	the first vaccine developed for immunisation against poliomyelitis (a serious infectious disease, especially of children, often resulting in muscular paralysis). The Salk vaccine is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.	
salt	add zest or liveliness to; season.	
salt (something) down	(figurative) scatter or sprinkle (something) through.	
salt down	add zest or liveliness to; season.	
salted	scattered or sprinkled (throughout).
added zest or liveliness to; seasoned.	
salted (something) down	scattered or sprinkled (something) throughout.	
salted down	(figurative) scattered or sprinkled (through).	
Salvation Army	an international organization, organized on semimilitary lines, that is known chiefly for its charitable works in cities among the poor, the homeless and people dependent on drugs and alcohol.	
Sambo	the name of a cat which was a pet of the Hubbard family.	
Same	brand name of an air-cooled auxilary diesel engine.	
San Diego	a seaport in southwest California which also has a naval and marine base.	
San Francisco	a chief US seaport on the Pacific coast of California with a population of over three quarters of a million people at the time of the lecture.	
San Pedro	a city in southern California that is an important port handling much of the maritime commerce of Los Angeles and has shipyards, fish canneries and oil refineries.	
Sang	a cook at Saint Hill at the time of the lecture.	
sanitarium	a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.	
Santiago	short for Santiago de Compostela, a city in northwest Spain.	
Saratoga	a name that has been carried by five ships of the US Navy. One of these ships provided service in World War II. 
See also World War II in this glossary.	
Saturday Evening Post, The	a large American monthly magazine, founded in 1821.	
sauce	(photography) a term used for any colored dye or paint used to retouch a photograph, as opposed to the use of black (called "ink").	
saurian	(zoology) of or having to do with a reptile of the order Sauria. Now chiefly in popular use, applied especially to crocodiles and to large extinct lizard-like animals such as certain dinosaurs.	
Savannah	the name of a US ship which was the world’s first merchant vessel powered by nuclear propulsion. Completed in 1958, she was built for demonstration purposes but was never a success.	
saving grace	a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics.	
saw	(slang) an old story, joke or saying; a cliché.	
Sawbones, Dr.	a made-up name for a doctor.	
Sawbrain, Mr.	a made-up name for a psychiatrist.	
scandal sheet	a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.	
scat	(informal) quickly; very fast (possibly from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats).	
scat, faster than	(informal) very quickly; very fast (possibly from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats).	
scat, quick as	(informal) quickly; very fast (possibly from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats).	
scat, quicker than	(informal) quickly; very fast (possibly from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats).	
scat, slicker than	(informal) quickly and smoothly; very fast and smoothly.
See also scat, wilder than in this glossary.	
scat, wilder than	(informal) very widely deviating; very erratic. Scat possibly comes from the term ss'cat, a hiss followed by the word cat used in driving away cats. It is used in such phrases as quicker than scat, slicker than scat, etc.	
Schiller	Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist.  He wrote books, essays, poems and plays on various different themes including history, philosophy and aesthetics.	
schitzobonga	a made-up name for a mental disease.	
schizophrenia	(psychiatry) a major mental disorder typically characterized by a separation of the thought processes and the emotions, a distortion of reality accompanied by delusions and hallucinations, a fragmentation of the personality, motor (involving muscular movement) disturbances, bizarre behavior, etc. The word schizophrenia means ”scissors” or ”two” plus ”head”-a two-head, in other words.	
schizophrenic	(psychiatry) a person suffering from schizophrenia, a mental illness in which an individual is being two people madly inside of himself. It is a psychiatry classification derived from the Latin schizo, meaning "split," and the Greek phren, meaning "mind." .	
schizophrenically	as if using two minds at once. In psychiatry, schizophrenia is defined as a mental illness in which an individual is being two people madly inside of himself. From the Latin schizo, meaning ”split," and the Greek phren, meaning "mind."	
schizy	a coined word from schiz meaning split or division and -y meaning characterized by.	
schnack	a made-up word.	
schnook	(slang) a simple or stupid person.	
schnozzola	(slang) a nose, especially a large one.	
schnucklehead	(slang) a variation of knucklehead, a stupid person.	
Scholastics	the medieval schoolmen (writers that dealt with the methods of scholasticism).  Scholasticism is the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.  Hampered by the church's insistence that their results be reconcilable with Christian doctrine, the schoolmen were often reduced to hairsplitting quibbles over methodology and terminology.	
school tie	(informal) loyalty among members of a group, especially among graduates of the same school or college. From a necktie striped in the distinctive colors of any of the exclusive English public schools (schools where one pays for their education).	
Schutzstaffel	(German) an elite corps of combat troops formed originally within the German Nazi Party during World War II as a bodyguard for Hitler and other Nazi leaders.  Frequently referred to by the abbreviation SS (Schutzstaffel).  The word literally means "defense echelon."	
scillions	(informal) a coined word for a very large number.	
score, the	(slang) the truth; the real story or information; what is really happening.	
Scotch still	a contraption used to distill Scotch whiskey, consisting of a pot in which the raw grains and liquids are boiled, a tube which carries off the vapors and directs them through a chamber filled with cold water where they recondense into liquid, dripping into a receptacle.	
Scotch tape	(trademark) a thin, transparent, cellulose adhesive tape.	
Scottish rite	one of the two advanced divisions of Masonic membership.
See also Mason, thirty‑third degree in this glossary.	
scram-bang	a coined word from scram meaning to get out, especially in a hurry and bang which means a sudden movement or loud noise.	
scrape up	collect or do by or as if by scraping	
screamer	(colloquial) a person or thing considered hilariously funny.	
Screemp Century	a made-up name for a time period.	
screwy	(slang) crazy; nutty.	
scrillion	a made‑up name for a number to indicate a huge amount of something.	
scrounge	(colloquial) take without permission; steal.	
scrubbles	a made-up term.	
scruff, up to	(slang) a variation of up to scratch, up to the standard expected or demanded.	
scruffing	same as scuffing walking without lifting the feet; proceeding with a scraping or dragging movement.  Used figuratively in this lecture.	
scrumbosis	a made-up name for a disease.	
scrushed	a coined word from scrunched, meaning crunched and crushed, pressed, ground or pounded into small particles or into powder.	
scuppered	(slang) caught by surprise and killed or destroyed.	
scurvish	a made-up word which rhymes with dervish.	
Sea of Whumpf	a made-up name for a sea.	
seacock	a valve below the waterline in the hull of a ship, used to control the intake of sea water.	
Seaforth Highlanders	the 78th regiment of Highlanders under the Earl of Seaforth (177111781), known later as the 2nd battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders. The Highlanders are regiments of the British army, originally recruited in the Highlands (northern and western mountain regions in Scotland) with dress uniforms which include the traditional tam-o'-shanter and kilts. The kilts and tartans are worn as the uniform of the Scottish regiments. Each regiment (and earlier each Scottish clan) has its own distinctive plaid pattern that is used in making the kilts.	
Sears and Roebuck	an American general merchandise business composed of a chain of retail stores and one of the world's largest mail-order houses, founded in 1893.	
Seattle	a major city and seaport in west central Washington state, in the United States.	
secretary of defense	the official in charge of the department of the US federal government responsible for ensuring that the military capacity of the US is adequate to safeguard the national security.	
secretary of state	(United States) the head of the State Department and principal adviser to the president on foreign affairs.	
Seeret Cloak-and-Dagger Society for the Breeding of Angora Cats	a made-up name for a society.	
seize up	become stuck, jammed, locked fast: said of a machine or mechanism. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
Senate Anti-American Committee	a made-up name for a committee in the United States Senate.	
send, a	(slang) a feeling of excitement; thrill.	
seneschal	a steward in charge of a royal palace, nobleman's estate, etc., in the Middle Ages (approximately A.D. 476-late 1400s). Seneschals often had the power of judges or generals.	
Sennett, Mack	(1880‑1960) the American "king of comedy" who in the 1920s produced countless slapstick shorts (any film running less than 3000 feet or about 33 minutes) featuring the Keystone Kops, a team of comic policemen noted for their hilarious routines.	
separate the sheeps from the goats	separate what is valuable from what is worthless. Fro m‑ sheep which have been a symbol of good, purity and innocence, and from goats which have represented embodied witches and even Satan. This symbolic difference is covered in the following lines from the Bible: "Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."	
separated out in the sheep from the goats	separated from what is worthless.  From sheep which have been a symbol of good, purity and innocence, and from goats which have represented embodied witches and even Satan.  This symbolic difference is covered in the following lines from the Bible: "Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."	
separation negative	a negative made in color printing for each separate color by photographing the original copy through a filter to eliminate all colors from the negative except the color desired.	
sequitur	(Latin, it follows) of or pertaining to something which follows logically from what comes before it.	
serial	an adventurous and melodramatic incident divided into many chapters of about twenty minutes each. These were the domain of villains and heroes, each chapter ended with a cliffhanger in which the hero was left in some deadly danger from which it was plain he could not escape, but at the beginning of the next chapter he did. [from definition of "Perils of Pauline, The" It was one of the most popular serials of its time.	
set (one) up	(colloquial) purposely made something very easy or made a goal or result effortless to achieve for (one).	
set square	a flat triangular instrument, with one right angle and the other angles of either 60 and 30 degrees or both of 45 degrees, used in mechanical or architectural drawing. 	
seven‑league boot stride	a step taken in seven‑league boots, fairy‑tale boots enabling the wearer to reach seven‑leagues (about 21 miles or 34 kilometers, a league being approximately 3 miles or 4.8 km) at a stride. Figuratively, a seven‑league boot stride is significant forward progress.	
seven-league boots	fairy-tale boots enabling the wearer to reach seven leagues (about 21 miles or 34 kilometers, a league being approximately 3 miles or 4.8 km) at a stride. Figuratively, a seven-league boot stride is significant forward progress.	
Seventeenth Interceptor Squadron	a made-up name of a group. Interceptor means a person or thing that intercepts; especially a fastclimbing military airplane used in fighting off enemy air attacks. A squadron is a small operational unit in an air force, consisting of aircraft and the personnel necessary to fly them.	
seventh son of a seventh son	a reference to the belief that the seventh son of a seventh son was endowed with notable talent and supernatural powers. Seven was regarded as a sacred and magical number among many ancient peoples. According to a belief that persisted through the Middle Ages, the seventh son of a seventh son was endowed with the power of not only curing diseases and disorders of all kinds, but also of practicing magic and foreseeing future events. As late as the nineteenth century many people still believed that the seventh son of a seventh son was a born physician and possessed intuitive knowledge of the healing art. The natural gifts of such a person were supposed to be more effective in medicine than the professional training of an ordinary doctor.	
Sex is Evil Society	a made-up name for a society.	
sextant	an instrument used by navigators for measuring the angular distance of the sun, a star, etc., from the horizon, as in finding the position of a ship.	
Seychelles Islands	a country consisting of a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, east of Kenya, Africa.	
seythe, old man with a	a reference to the Grim Reaper: death, especially when personified as a man or skeleton with a scythe.	
shacked up with	(slang) living in sexual intimacy with (another person), especially for a short duration.	
shade, got it made in the	(slang) been assured of success.	
shake (something) down	(informal) make a thorough search of (something).	
shake a stick at	(informal) take notice of	
shakedown	(informal) an action done to test, practice or get something running smoothly.	
shaken down	(informal) thoroughly searched.	
shaken out of the hamper	presented (as an answer, idea, condition, datum, etc.). A hamper is a receptacle and earlier was a receptacle for silver, treasure, money, etc.	
shakes, no small	(slang) outstanding; effective.  The term is thought to have come from the shaking and rolling of dice.	
Shakespeare	William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan period (1558-1603)~ the most widely known author in all English literature. The statements "The lady doth protest too much, methinks," and "To be, or not to be: that is the question..."  were written by Shakespeare for the play "Hamlet".
See also overt doth speak loudly in accusation, the in this glossary.	
Shakespearian	written by William Shakespeare
of William Shakespeare	
shaking (one) down	(slang) blackmailing or extorting (one); demanding protection money from (one).	
shaking (something) down	(informal) making a thorough search of (something).	
shaking like a leaf	(colloquial) trembling with fear or great anxiety.	
shalt	(archaic) form of "shall"; used with thou.	
Sharif Mohammedans	a term applied to descendants of the Mohammed (A.D. 570-632, Arab prophet and founder of Islam, the prominent religion of Asia), and more particularly to a small Arab tribe who call themselves Bani Hashim (sons of Hashim, the Prophet's uncle).  Sharif means noble; revered.	
shark oil	a repellent used against sharks while one is in the water.	
Shaw, George Bernard	(1856-1950) an Irish author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he spent most of his career in England. A playwright, critic, and social reformer, Shaw was known for his outspokenness and barbed humor.	
shed some more light on	give new information about (something); make (a situation) clearer; explain.	
Sheena	a staff member in Washington, DC, at the time of the lecture.	
sheesh	an exclamation of disgust, frustration, etc.	
shellacking	(slang) a beating.	
Sherlock	Sherlock Holmes, the best known of all fictional detectives, created by English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Sherlock has appeared in many stories with his admiring friend Dr. Watson.
See also Watson in this glossary.	
Sherman tank	short for General Sherman tank, a World War II US Army tank weighing about thirty-one tons and carrying a 75-millimeter gun as its main armament.	
Shicklgruber	another name for Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler's father, Alois (born 1837), was illegitimate and for a time bore his mother's name, Schicklgruber, but by 1876 he had established his claim to the surname Hitler. Adolf (born 1889) never used any other name, and the name Schicklgruber was revived only by his political opponents in Germany and Austria in the 1930s. During his late teens and early twenties, Hitler avoided common labor (as he believed himself to be an artist) but earned small sums selling tinted postcards, making watercolor pictures and working as a house painter.	
shilling	a former British monetary unit equal to 1/20 pound.	
shining	making appear with conspicuous clearness; standing out clearly.	
shipwright	(shipbuilding) a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.	
shoe is slightly on the other foot	the situation is (slightly) reversed for the persons involved.	
shoot (something) down	(slang) defeat (something); thwart or ruin the efforts of (something).	
shoot (something) down in flames	(slang) defeat (something); thwart or ruin (something's) efforts.	
shoot (-something) full of holes	(informal) find faults or mistakes in (an argument, idea, etc.).	
shooting match	(slang) all the persons or things concerned in a given matter.	
shooting match, the whole	(slang) all the persons or things concerned in a given matter.	
shop, all over the	(colloquial) scattered in every direction, all over the place; everywhere.	
short circuiter	a thing that short circuits. A short circuit is a usually accidental low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that causes too much current flow and often results in damage. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
short-handed	abbreviated.	
shorthanding	abbreviation.	
shot	a measure of the altitude of a heavenly body.	
shot down in flames	(slang) defeated; thwarted or ruined.	
shot glass	a small glass for measuring or serving a shot (a small measure, often one ounce) of liquor.	
shot in the dark	(colloquial) a guess, etc., that is made with little or no direct knowledge and is therefore not very likely to be right.	
shot over	(slang) used up, spent more than.	
shotgun	covering a wide area in an irregularly effective manner without concern for details or particulars; tending to be all-inclusive and nonselective.  From a gun with no grooves in its barrels, for firing cartridges filled with small lead or steel balls.  When fired, these balls (shot) travel in an expanding, conelike pattern.	
shove off	a variation of pass off, cause to be accepted as genuine, true, etc., especially through deceit.	
show on the road, get the	get (an organization, plan, etc.) into active operation; put (a plan, idea, etc.) into effect.	
shredded wheat	a breakfast cereal made by shredding cooked, dried whole wheat and baking or toasting it in biscuit- or spoon-sized pieces.	
shucks	(slang) nothing at all; very little; nothing; the least quantity.
(informal) a mild exclamation of disgust or regret.	
shuns	things to keep away from; things to avoid scrupulously or consistently.	
Siberia	: the northeastern region of Russia in Asia; a vast geographical region with no precise boundaries, approximately 2.9 million square miles, it extends east across North Asia from the Urals (mountain range in the west Soviet Union) to the Pacific coast region known as the Soviet far east.
(figuratively) any undesirable or isolated locale, job, etc., to which one is assigned as punishment, a mark of disfavor, or the like.	
side by jowl	a variation of the expression cheek by jowl: side by side; close together.	
sidepanel	incidental light or information upon a subject. A variation of side-light.	
side-panel	incidental light or information upon a subject.  A Variation of side-light.	
sift the coffee beans from the chaff	a variation of separate the wheat from the chaff, separate what is valuable from what is worthless. Referring to removing the outer covering from grain when one is making flour.	
sig	(pharmaceutical) short for Latin signetur, label it or let it be labeled.	
signal halyard	a rope fitted with clips for hoisting flags.	
silk, hit the	(slang) made a parachute jump.	
silver dollar	a silver coin of the United States worth one dollar.	
silver platter, on a	without requiring any effort; very lightly or easily.	
Simple Simon	foolish; silly.
like a simpleton (a silly person; fool).
The term comes from a foolish character in the well-known anonymous nursery rhyme: "Simple Simon met a pieman, going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, 'Let me taste your ware...."	
Simple Simonisms	a coined term for foolish or stupid actions; in this lecture, specifically referring to actions done in a session which are added, unfitting or unealled for. From Simple Simon.	
Sing Sing	a New York state penitentiary at Ossining, a village in southeastern New York.	
sinking fund	a fund made up of sums of money set aside from time to time and usually invested at interest, to pay a debt, meet expenses, etc.	
Sioux	a group of Indian tribes of the northern plains of the US and southern Canada.	
Sioux City	a city on the Missouri River in the state of Iowa, located in the Midwest.	
Sioux Indians	members of Indian tribes of the northern plains of the US and southern Canada.	
sis‑boom‑bah	a cheer used at American sporting activities, especially athletic contests.	
sitzen sie	(German) sit down.	
sixpence	(British) a coin of the United Kingdom, formerly equal to six pennies.	
sixpences	coins of the United Kingdom, formerly equal to six pennies.	
sixteen-inch guns	large, heavy guns with barrels 16 inches in diameter.	
sixty dollar question	the critical or basic question or problem. A variation of sixty-four-dollar question (from the fact that sixty-four dollars was the largest prize on a popular radio quiz show in the 1940s).	
sixty‑four dollar	critical or basic. From the fact that sixty‑four dollars was the largest prize (won by correctly answering the "sixty‑four dollar question") on a popular radio quiz show in the 1940s.	
sjambok	a whip traditionally made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide used in South Africa to drive cattle.	
skim-scum	a coined word from skim: something that has been skimmed, removed from or taken off the top of something and scum: impurities that rise to the surface of a liquid; a film of material floating on the surface of a stretch of water.	
Skinner, Mr.	an electronics specialist in the field of television and telephone systems in the London metropolitan area at the time of this lecture.	
skintillion	a made-up name for a number to indicate a huge amount of (something).	
skip men	a reference to skip tracers: investigators whose job is to locate missing persons, especially debtors.	
skittery	frightened; nervous; skittish.	
skoofba	a made‑up word for a chemical.	
skyhook	an imaginary contrivance for attachment to the sky; an imaginary means of suspension in the sky.	
skyhooks	various lifting devices, as one hung from a helicopter, designed to lift heavy loads to distances beyond the reach of a crane.	
skyration	a humorous variation of gyration, meaning motion in a circle or spiral; turning around; wheeling or whirling Used figuratively in this lecture.	
sky's the limit	(informal) there are no limits, e.g., to the amount of money that can be won in a competition or to the successes that someone can gain in his work. Comparing the sky to a roof above the world that can never be reached or touched.	
slack-jawed	with the jaw or mouth partly open and loose.	
Slan, Mick	a made‑up name.	
slanguage	slang; a vocabulary of slang.	
slaver when the bell rings	a reference to a stimulus-response reaction or doing something on a stimulus-response basis. From the animal training experiments by Pavlov wherein he sounded a bell while presenting food to a dog, thereby stimulating the natural flow of saliva in the dog’s mouth. After the procedure was repeated several times, the dog would salivate at the sound of the bell, even when no food was presented.	
sleeper	(informal) a previously disregarded person or thing that unexpectedly achieves success, assumes importance, etc.	
Sleeping Beauty	the name of a popular fairy tale of a beautiful princess who is awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.	
sleeping dogs lie, let	let well alone; if some contemplated course of action is likely to cause trouble or land you in difficulties you had better avoid it. This phrase, originated in early English literature, and was expressed by Shakespeare in the phrase "Wake not a sleeping wolf," from the play, King Henry IV.	
sleeve, rolled up (one's)	got ready for a hard job; prepared to work hard or seriously.	
sleeves rolled up, with (one's)	(informal) prepared for action.	
sleeves, roll up (one's)	(informal) prepare for action.	
sleeves, rolled up (one's)	got ready for a hard job	
sleeves, rolled up my	(informal) prepared for action.	
slewed around)	turned, swung or twisted around a fixed point.	
slick as a whistle	completely and entirely clean; without fault or error.	
slicker	(slang) fool; trick.	
slicker than a whistle	(slang) very smoothly done; well done. A variation of slick as a whistle.	
slicker than any platter	a coined expression meaning cleaner than or better than anything.	
slickered	defeated by being slick (smooth and clever; smart).	
slide out of it	(figurative) pass quietly and secretly; go unregarded.	
slingo	a coined expression for a slang language, combining the words slang and lingo.	
slings and arrows of misfortune	an allusion to lines from William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet (ca. 1601), in which Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, revenges the death of his father. The greatness of this play lies in the unique and thoughtful nature of Hamlet whose temper is philosophical rather than active. He has a preoccupation with the nature and consequences of man's actions which has led critics to call him "the first modern man." Hamlet contemplates life and death in the following lines of this play:
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them?"
The expression is used figuratively in this lecture to mean the "assaults or tribulations of life."	
slip 'twixt cup and preclear, many a	a Variation of the expression there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip: a plan, intention, etc., may easily go wrong before it is fully carried out; nothing is certain until it is actually obtained or fulfilled.  From a Greek legend of Ancaeus, the son of Zeus, in which it is said that while planting a vineyard, he was told by a soothsayer that he would never drink of its wine.  As soon as the grapes were ripe, he squeezed the juice into a cup and raising it to his lips, mocked the seer, who retorted with the phrase "there's many a slip between the cup and the lip." At that moment it was announced that a wild boar was ravaging the land.  Ancaeus set down the cup, leaving the wine untasted, hurried out and was killed by the boar.	
slipped (someone's) mind	was forgotten.	
slipped disk	a loosened intervertebral disk (a round, flat mass of fibrous cartilage lying between the bodies of adjacent bones in the backbone or spinal column [vertebrae]), causing painful pressure on the spinal nerves.	
slippery	(British) quick; alert; sharp.
(colloquial) nimble, spry; sharp, quick.	
slippily	(British) quickly; alertly; sharply.	
slippiness	(colloquial) being slippery (tending to slip away, as from a grasp).	
slippy	unstable, uncertain, insecure; that cannot be relied upon as lasting or assured.
(British) quick; alert; sharp.	
Slobovia	a made-up name for a place.	
slogging	(figurative) hard striking or hard hitting.	
slop	(figurative) nonsense; rubbish.
(figurative) plod or tramp awkwardly as if walking through mud.	
slop off	(colloquial) wander aimlessly, move in a slovenly manner.	
slope arms	(military) a position between perpendicular and horizontal.	
slope formula	a mathematical method for calculating the slope (slant or inclination of a line with respect to the horizontal) of a straight line or a section of a curve.	
slot	(Scottish, figurative) a hollow in a hill or between two ridges.	
Sloveronians	a made-up name.	
slow freight	slowly; at less than usual speed. From a cargo-carrying train, or freight, which travels slowly.	
slug	(slang) a fight; a battle.
trudge, fight or push onward, as against obstacles or through mud or snow.	
slumbosis	a made-up word rhyming with lumbosis.
See also lumbosis in this glossary.	
smart	quick or prompt in action, as persons.	
smell a mouse	(colloquial) a variation of smell a rat: suspect that something is wrong, that someone is trying to deceive one, etc.	
smick‑smack	a made‑up word.	
Smith, Pete	(1892-1979) American producer of punchy one-reel shorts on any and every subject from 1935 to the fifties, all narrated by "a Smith named Pete." He won a special Academy Award (any of the annual achievement awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) in 1953 for his witty and pungent observations on the American scene.	
Smith's	a bookstore chain in Great Britain.	
Smithsonian Institute	institution and museum founded in 1846 in Washington, DC by a bequest of James Smithson (ca. 1765-1829), English scientist: branches of the Institution cover a wide range of fields in the arts and sciences.	
smoke	something that clouds or is meant to confuse or hide an issue.	
smoke into the air, throwing	a variation of kicking up a dust, causing trouble, complaining or acting in a noisy manner.	
smoke, blow up in	be destroyed completely. A variation of go up in smoke.	
smoke, go up in	(slang) fail or become unsuccessful; terminate without producing a result.	
smoke, has gone up in	(slang) has failed or has been unsuccessful.  See, that has just gone up in smoke, see? - Studying: Data Assimilation (9 July 64)	
smoke, went up in	(slang) failed or was unsuccessful.	
smoked up	eager; excited.	
Smokey	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
smoking	moving very rapidly.	
smoothie	(informal) a person who has a winningly polished manner.
(slang) a man who speaks, behaves, etc., in a polished manner, often insincerely, especially in trying to impress or court a woman.
(slang) a person who is attractive, pleasant, and full of finesse.	
smouthily	humorous pronunciation of smoothly.	
smush	(dialect) mash; crush.	
Smykes—Sykeses, Bill	a made-up name for general public.	
Smyrna	a Turkish port and trading center on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea with a large fig packing and shipping industry.. It has been the scene of numerous battles since 627 B.C.	
snaffle	(British slang) appropriate for one's own use, especially by devious means; purloin.	
snaffled	(colloquial) purloined or snitched.	
snap and pop and come out of it	a variation of snap out of it: change suddenly from a bad condition to a better one; recover quickly or regain one's senses.	
snattery	a made-up word which rhymes with nattery.	
Snead	Sam Snead (1912- ), American professional golf player.  During his forty years as a golfer he won over one hundred tourneys.  He became known as "Slammin' Sam" for his powerful drives and smooth, natural swing.	
Snead, Sam	(1912- ) American professional golf player. During his forty years as a golfer he won over one hundred tourneys. He became know as "Slammin' Sam" for his powerful drives and smooth, natural swing.	
sneaking	secret; not generally avowed (said or admitted openly or frankly) as a feeling, notion, suspicion, etc.	
sneeresque	a coined word from sneer, a look or words expressing scorn or contempt and -esque, a suffix indicating style, manner or distinctive character.	
snick	suddenly; quickly; crisply.	
Snider	a rifle invented by Jacob Snider and adopted by the British in 1867 for use in warfare.	
snit	(slang) a fit of rage or bad temper; a tantrum.
a fit of anger, resentment, etc.	
snit, flew another	(slang) had another violent outburst of rage or bad temper.	
snitsa	a made-up word which rhymes with itsa.	
Snodgrass, Mrs.	a made-up name for a person.	
snogged up	tangled up.	
snoopy	(informal) inclined to pry into the private affairs of others.	
snoot	a metal mask with a cylinder or cone that fits over a spotlight and restricts the illumination to a fixed circular area. 	
snooze	(slang) snuff, especially a strong moist kind.	
snowball's chance, a	short for a snowball's chance in hell, no possibility whatever.	
snufflacate	a made-up word with no particular meaning.	
so help me God	(colloquial) an expression used to give emphasis to a wish, hope, intention, etc. From the phrase used when swearing to tell the truth in a court of law.	
social democrat	a member or supporter of a Social Democratic Party (a political party advocating the gradual transition to socialism by democratic processes).
See also socialistic in this glossary.	
Social Security card	a card identifying a person as a participant in Social Security, a program of old age, unemployment, health, disability and survivors' insurance maintained by the US federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.	
socialism	a theory or policy of social organization which aims at or advocates the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land, property, etc., by the community as a whole, and their administration or distribution in the interests of all.	
socialist	an advocate or supporter of socialism, any of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or the community rather than by private individuals, with all members of the society or the community sharing in the work and the products.	
socialistic	of or having to do with socialism, a theory or policy of social organization which aims at or advocates the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land, property, etc., by the community as a whole, and their administration or distribution in the interests of all.	
socialistically	characteristic of socialism, a theory or policy of social organization which aims at or advocates the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land, property, etc., by the community as a whole and their administration or distribution in the interests of all.	
socialists	advocates or supporters of socialism, any of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or the community rather than by private individuals, with all members of the sotiety or the community sharing in the work and the products.	
Society for the Dissemination of Cats	a made-up name for a society.	
socket	fit (something) into a hollow part.	
Socrates	(470?-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher of Athens who taught of truth and virtue, and developed the Socratic method of cross-examination to attain truth. His popularity earned him great hatred from many Athenians; as a result, he was brought to trial for corrupting the youth and introducing strange gods. He was convicted and condemned to drink the poison hemlock.	
Socrateses	persons similar to Socrates.	
sod	(British slang) a chap; fellow; guy.	
sodium bichloride	a made-up name for a chemical.	
Sodom and Gomorrah	the two evil cities that God destroyed with a rain of fire and brimstone (sulfur). Before the destruction, God sent two angels in the form of men to advise all good men to leave the evil towns. God's messengers found only one good man, Lot, whom they transported from Sodom to the countryside with his wife and daughters, warning them not to look back. When Lot's wife, not heeding the warning, looked back, she became a pillar of salt. From the Book of Genesis in the Bible.	
sogging	a coined word from socking, driving or thrusting (in or into something) and slogging, working hard (at something).	
son of a bitch	(vulgar slang) a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.	
son of a blankety-blank	(slang) a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel. A variation of son of a bitch. Blankety-blank is a generalized euphemism substituted for a taboo or vulgar term.	
son of a gun	(slang) an exclamation, usually used to show surprise or disappointment. The phrase has been in use for over two centuries and originally was a descriptive term conveying contempt in a slight degree, applied to boys born afloat when women were occasionally allowed to accompany men in ships of the British Navy. Voyages were frequently long and conditions cramped, and any woman about to give birth had to do so beneath or beside one of the ship's guns, behind an improvised screen.	
son of a gun, I'll be a	an exclamation usually used to show surprise or disappointment. The phrase has been in use for over two centuries and originally was a descriptive term conveying contempt in a slight degree, applied to boys born afloat when women were occasionally allowed to accompany men in ships of the British Navy. Voyages were frequently long and conditions cramped, and any woman about to give birth had to do so beneath or beside one of the ship's guns, behind an improvised screen.	
son of a monkey, I'll be a	a Variation of I’ll be a son of a gun.
See son of a gun, I'll be a in this glossary.	
song	short for song and dance.
See song and dance in this glossary.	
song and dance	(colloquial) talk, especially an explanation that is pointless, devious or evasive.
(colloquial) one's "performance" in the course of doing his job. For example, a salesman reels off his patter.	
sorts, of	of one kind or another.	
soul mate	a person with whom one has a strong affinity.	
soup	an unfortunate predicament.
trouble.	
soup, fish (one) out of the	(slang) get (one) out of trouble.	
soup, in (more) energy	(informal) into (more) difficulty or trouble with energy.	
soup, in the	(slang) in trouble.	
soup, into the	(slang) into a difficulty; into trouble.	
soup, out of the	(slang) out of trouble.	
soup, put (oneself) in a	(slang) get (oneself) into a difficulty or into trouble.	
south	down; toward a low level; at a low level.	
South African ACC	short for 3rd South African Advanced Clinical Course, given by Ron in Johannesburg, South Africa from 23 January through 17 February 1961.	
South African Congress	reference to the 3rd South African Advanced Clinical Course; given in Johannesburg, 23 January‑17 February 1961.	
South Alvarado and Main	the names of two streets in Los Angeles.	
South Amboy	a small city in New Jersey, USA.	
South Carolina	a state in the southeastern United States.	
South Korea	a country in eastern Asia; formed in 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea.  It is officially @led the Republic of Korea.
See also North Korean in this glossary.	
South Main Street	a made-up name for a street.	
South Pacific	the area of the Pacific Ocean which extends from the equator to the antarctic regions, west of the North and South American continents and east of Asia.  It was the scene of extensive fighting in World War II (1939-1945).	
South Sea	an old term for the Pacific Ocean. This comes from the fact that until the middle of the 18th century the only means of reaching the Pacific Ocean from the west was round Cape Horn or through the Magellan Straits (both at the southernmost point of South America).	
South Vietnam	a country in Southeast Asia at the time of the lecture. Vietnam was divided in 1954 by the Geneva Conference with North Vietnam controlled by communists and South Vietnam controlled by noncommunists. The Vietnam War was waged from 1954 to 1975 between communist North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. The United States was involved in the war (aiding South Vietnam) in the 1960s and 1970s.	
South, the	the group of eleven Southern States that seceded from (withdrew formally from membership in) the United States in 1860 and 1861 because of various differences, especially over the issue of slavery; the Confederate States of America.	
south, went	(slang) disappeared; failed by or as if by vanishing.	
Southampton	a major seaport in southern England heavily damaged by German bombing in World War II.	
Southeast Asia	See Vietnam in this glossary.	
Southern cause	social and economic order had collapsed. President Andrew Johnson tried to shift political control in the South from the old planter aristocracy to small farmers and artisans by disenfranchising all former Confederate officers and making certain property liable to confiscation.
See also Confederate forces in this glossary.	
Southwest—New South—North Wales	humorous variation of New South Wales, a state of southeastern Australia, where Canberra, the capital of Australia, is located.	
space jockey	(slang) an astronaut.	
Space Jockeys	(slang) astronauts.	
space opera	of the time periods on the whole track millions of years ago which concerned activities in this and other galaxies. Space opera has space travel, spaceships, spacemen, intergalactic travel, wars, conflicts, other beings, civilisations and societies, and other planets and galaxies. It is not fiction and concerns actual incidents and things that occurred on the track.
of or having to do with time periods on the whole track millions of years ago.
of or relating to time periods with space travel, spaceships, spacemen, intergalactic travel, wars, conflicts, other beings, civilizations and societies, and other planets and galaxies.	
spake	(archaic) spoke.	
Spam	(trademark) a type of canned meat consisting primarily of pork products.	
spang	with a sudden spring or impetus; slap, smack.	
Sparkbreaker, Doctor	a made-up name for a doctor.	
sparky	emitting or producing sparks, resulting from friction.	
spat-spat	a small splash of something.	
spatticated	a made-up word.	
speckled fever	a made-up name for a fever.	
speed rating	a grade given to film based on the exposure needed to get good negatives or color transparencies.  Films with a high speed rating have a tendency to produce grainy results (coarser grain size).	
Spencer	Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher and social scientist. He is known for his application of the scientific doctrines of evolution to philosophy and ethics, with a central principle, the "persistence of force" as the agent of all change, form and organization in the knowable universe. The only limit which Spencer placed on the application of the theory of evolution was in the area which he called the unknowable, the ultimate nature of reality. The content of the unknowable was not only theological but also included such scientific ideas as matter, space, time, motion and force. He proposed a principle of limitation of knowledge in which human thought was confined to that which could be compared with and related to other things.	
Spewjaw, Cardinal of	a made-up name.	
spick 	short for spick-and-span, particularly neat, trim or smart.	
Spider, Joe	a made-up name for a spider.	
spin	(slang) a state of mental confusion.	
Spin Corner	a made‑up name for a corner. Spin is slang for a state of mental confusion.	
spinbin	(slang) a mental institution.	
Spinbin Lawn Hospital	a made-up name for a hospital. Spinbin is a slang term for a mental institution.	
Spinbin U	a made-up name for a college. U is an abbreviation for "university."
See also spinbin in this glossary.	
spinning	(slang) in a state of mental confusion.	
spinny	(slang) into a state of mental confusion.
(slang) mentally confused.	
spins in	(slang) goes into a state of mental Confusion.	
spit (one's) teeth out	(colloquial) express vehement anger; rage. A variation of spit blood.	
spit now or forever	hold your speech: a humorous variation of speak now or forever hold your pease which is a common phrase in marriage ceremonies meaning speak up now or be silent and do not ever speak against the marriage.	
Spitfire	a propeller-driven British fighter aircraft of World War II.	
spitless, scare (one)	frighten (one) very much; terrify (one).	
Spitzburgen type super snap	a made-up word for a German automobile.	
splant	a made-up word.	
splene	(anatomy) Italian for spleen; an organ of the body situated at the left of the stomach and involved in maintaining the proper condition of the blood.	
splintering bits of enamel out	expressing vehement anger; rage. A variation of spit blood.	
split hairs	find and argue about small and unimportant differences as if the differences are important.	
split‑hair	extremely narrow or close; very precise; hairline.	
spluggits	a made-up word for a unit of measurement.	
spook	like a ghost; like anything that appears unexpectedly or in an extraordinary way.
(colloquial) like a ghost or specter; weird or strange in some way.	
spooziks	a made-up word.	
Sportplatz	(German) of an athletic or sports field.	
Sportsman Pilot, The	the name of a magazine for pilots of sport and recreational aircraft.  It is published quarterly in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.	
spots off, knocking the	beating thoroughly. An allusion to pistol‑shooting at a playing card, when a shot will knock out the pips or spots.	
spout, down the	(informal) into a ruined, wasted or abandoned state or condition. A variation of down the chute.	
spout, goes up the	becomes lost or ruined. A spout was a lift (elevator) formerly in use in pawnbrokers' shops, up which the articles pawned were taken for storage and, when redeemed, returned down, i.e., from the storeroom to the shop.	
spout, gone up the	become lost, ruined. A spout was a lift (elevator) formerly in use in pawnbrokers' shops, up which the articles pawned were taken for storage. Referring to the spout up which brokers sent the articles and when redeemed they returned them down the spout, i.e., from the storeroom to the shop.	
spout, up the	gone, lost, ruined. A spout was a lift (elevator) formerly in use in pawnbroker's shops, up which the articles pawned were taken for storage. Referring to the spout up which brokers sent the articles and when redeemed they returned them down the spout, i.e., from the storeroom to the shop.	
Springfields	rifles first produced in 1900 at the Springfield Armory (place where firearms are made) in Springfield, Massachusetts. They were adopted for use by the US Army in 1903 and then replaced as the standard infantry weapon by the Garand rifle in 1936.
See also Garand Markets in this glossary.	
spronged	snapped back into shape after having been stretched, bent or compressed.	
spun in	(slang) went into a state of mental confusion.	
sputnik	any of a series of Soviet Earth-orbiting satellites.	
square (one) around	make (one) straight or right; satisfy (one).	
square (something) around	(colloquial) put (matters) straight; settle satisfactorily.
(colloquial) put (something) in proper order; tidy up or sort out (something). A variation of square away.	
square (something) up	settle or adjust (something).
(colloquial) put (a matter) straight; settle (something) satisfactorily	
squared (someone or something) around	(colloquial) put (someone or something) straight; settled satisfactorily.	
squared (something) around	made (something) straight or right; satisfied (something).	
squared around	made straight or right; satisfied.
(colloquial) put (a matter) straight; settled satisfactorily.
(colloquial) put in proper order; tidied up; sorted out.	
squared around	Now, that's what has interrupted research here for the last six days - trying to get through, trying to get things clarified, trying to get things squared around. -Effectiveness of Processing (30 Apr. 64)	
squared away	organized or completed satisfactorily; put in order.
(colloquial) gotten ready; put in order.	
squared up	settled or adjusted.	
squareheaded	(slang) dull-witted; slow-thinking.	
squares it up	acts like a square: a person scorned because he is not in the know or, especially, not cognizant of, wise to or aware of the modern interests, activities, etc.; one who is or persists in being ignorant or unenlightened.	
squaring (something) around	making (something) straight or right; satisfying (something).	
squaring around	(colloquial) putting (a matter) straight; settling satisfactorily.	
squib	of or having to do with a common species of firework, in which the burning of the composition is usually terminated by a slight explosion.	
squick	a made-up word for a needle movement on the E-Meter.	
squiggle-wop	a made-up word.	
squillion	(informal) a coined word for a very large number. 	
squirrel cage	a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it. Used figuratively in this lecture to mean any situation that seems to be endlessly without goal or achievement.	
squizzly	(dialect) squirting or squishing out.	
St. John's Wood	a suburb north of London, England.	
St. Lawrence	a river flowing from Lake Ontario (in the North American continent) northeast into the Atlantic Ocean.	
stacked deck	(slang) something prearranged dishonestly or so as to assure one's advantage fraudulently.  From the practice of arranging a deck of playing cards secretly for cheating.	
stack-up	(slang) a piled-up mess.	
stage of the game, at (some)	at (some) time during an activity; at (some) point.	
Stakoma	a made-up name for a place.	
Stalin	Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Russian political leader. As general secretary of the Communist Party, he expelled those who opposed him and ordered the arrest and deportation to Siberia and northern Russia of tens of thousands of members of the opposition. He became premier of the Soviet Union in 1941, and established himself as virtual dictator.	
Stamp Salvage Collection Department	a made-up name for a department.	
Standard Oil	an oil company incorporated in 1870 which grew very rapidly, becoming one of the largest oil companies in the United States at the time.	
standing on (one's) head	(slang) accomplishing something easily.	
standing to	waiting in readiness; standing by.	
stand-on-the-head	(slang) something easily accomplished.	
star-plot	(astrology) a chart or diagram of a zodiacal constellation or planet regarded as influencing human fate or destiny.	
stars, mark your	a variation of thank (one's) lucky stars meaning be thankful for one's good luck.	
stars, thank your	be thankful for one's good luck. 	
Star-Spangled Banner, The	the national anthem of the United States, written in 1812 from a British popular song of the day.	
starter's gate	a type of movable barrier for lining up and giving an equal start to the entries in a horse or dog race. A variation of starting gate.	
state of the game, at (some)	at (some) time during an activity; at (some) point. A variation of at (some) stage of the game.	
Statue of Liberty	a giant statue on an island in the harbor of New York City; it depicts a woman representing liberty, raising a torch in her right hand and holding a tablet in her left.	
steamed up	stirred up or roused.	
steen-trillion-squillion	a made-up term for an extremely large number.	
steeplechaser	one who rides in a horse race run over a prepared course, originally a horse race across fields, hedges, ditches and other obstacles. The term is said to have originated from the frolic of a party of fox hunters in Ireland who decided to race in a straight line to a distant steeple.	
Steichen	Edward Steichen (1879-1972), pioneer in photography as an art form.  In World War I he led the photo division of the air service and in World War II he headed the navy photo unit.  From 1947 to 1962 he was the director of the photo department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.	
Steinbeck	John Steinbeck (1902-1968), American novelist and short-story writer. He is noted for his realistic studies of life among the depressed economic classes of the US.	
Steiner schools	schools which use the educational methods developed by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Steiner was the founder of anthroposophy, a spiritual movement still active in Europe and the United States, based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. Anthroposophy centers on "knowledge produced by the higher self in man." Steiner's first school, which he characterized as a "school of spiritual science," was built near Basel, Switzerland in 1913. Many different types of schools have grown out of Steiner's work.	
Steinway	reference to the pianos by Henry Engelhard Steinway (17971871), celebrated German piano builder; founder of Steinway and Sons of New York City and Hamburg Germany, which produced the grand piano that became the model for the best piano makers.	
stem	stop, delay.	
Sten gun	a British light submachine gun (a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip).	
Stevenson, Robert Louis	(1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet and essayist. He is famous for his novel Treasure Island and other similar works. He spent the last 5 years of his life in Samoa, an island in the South Sea.
See also South Sea in this glossary.	
sticks and stones may break my bones	reference to an old rhyme, often repeated by children:
"Sticks and stones
May break my bones,
But names can never hurt me."	
sticky-plaster	(informal) hold together with or as with sticking plaster, adhesive cloth for covering a slight wound, usually a thin cloth gummed on one side.	
stiletto heel	(chiefly British) spike heel; a high, very thin heel on a woman's shoe.	
stinker	(slang) a thing that is very difficult.	
stitch in moss saves nine, a	a humorous variation of a stitch in time saves nine, a proverb meaning a little preventative maintenance can eliminate the need for major repairs.	
stitches, ruin (one’s)	a Variation of the expression in stitches, laughing uproariously. A stitch is a sudden, sharp pain, as in the side, from laughing very hard.	
stitches, went into	started laughing uproariously.	
stone face	a person showing a cold, unfeeling expression; expressionless.	
storm warnings	(sailing) visual and radio warnings given of approaching gales and storms. The visual signals vary from country to country. In the US, for example, pennants and flags are hoisted to indicate dangerous sea conditions.	
storm, take (one) by sudden	capture (one) by a sudden or very bold attack. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
storm, took (one) by	captured (one) by a sudden or very bold attack.
(informal) made a great impression upon (one).	
straight up	(colloquial) truthfully; really.	
Stratford-on-Avon	one of the oldest towns in England which is world-famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), England's greatest poet and playwright.
See also "To be or not to be" in this glossary.	
Stratocruiser	(trademark) a large aircraft for carrying freight or passengers at high altitudes.	
Stravinsky	Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian composer, widely considered one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.	
straw that breaks the pc’s back, the	a humorous Variation of the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
See camel’s back, the one that broke the in this glossary.	
stream of consciousness	a manner of writing in which a character’s thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, sentence structure, distinctions between various levels of reality or the like.	
Street & Smith	an American publishing company established in New York in 1855 by Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Street & Smith published a series of dime novels, including "Nick Carter" stories.
See also Carter, Nick in this glossary.	
Streetcar Named Desire	a Pulitzer-Prize-winning play written in 1947 by American playwright and fiction writer Tennessee Williams. It is the story of a faded Southern belle named Blanche Dubois who ultimately is committed to a mental institution.	
string a long bow	a variation of draw a long bow, exaggerate. A longbow is a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries. It is said that a good archer could hit between the fingers of a man's hand at a considerable distance, and could propel his arrow a mile. The tales told about longbow exploits fully justify the application of the phrase.	
stringing (one) a long bend	(slang) a humorous variation of throwing (one) a curve, misleading or deceiving (someone), lying and drawing a longbow, exaggerating. A longbow is a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries. It is said that a good archer could hit between the fingers of a man's hand at a considerable distance, and could propel his arrow a mile. The tales told about longbow exploits fully justify the application of the phrase.	
strong-arm	coercion by threats or intimidation; bullying. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
strontium 90	a radioactive form of the element strontium (a pale yellow metallic chemical element), present in fallout from nuclear explosions. Strontium 90 can be absorbed into. the bones in place of calcium, hindering further absorption of calcium and leading to weak bones.	
strumberries	a made-up name for a food.	
stupe	(slang) a stupid person.	
Stutz Beareat	a type of racing car produced by Harry C. Stutz (1876-1930) who is considered to have been one of America's greatest automotive engineers.	
Stygian	like the river Styx (one of the rivers of Hades) and the mythical world of the dead.	
Suba-hooba-hooba	a humorous reference to Subud, a movement founded in 1947 and led by the mystic Pak Muhammad Subuh based on a system of exercises by which the individual seeks to approach a state of perfection through the agency of the divine power.	
subconscious	(psychoanalysis) the unconscious mind. It is said to be the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc., of which the individual is not conscious but which influence his emotions and behavior. In actuality, the "unconscious" is the sum of all a man's bad experiences and nothing more mysterious than that. In Dianetics and Scientology it is called the reactive mind.	
submariners	members of the crew of a submarine.	
Subub	humorous Variation of Subud, a movement founded in 1947 and led by the mystic Pak Muhammad Subuh based on a system of exercises by which the individual seeks to approach a state of perfection through the agency of the divine power.	
suck‑chiatrist	a derogatory play on the words psychiatrist and suck.	
Suid-Afrika	the name for South Africa, as it is said in Afrikaans, an official language of South Africa which developed from seventeenth-century Dutch.	
sulfathiazole	a sulfa drug which is from a family of drugs containing sulfur dioxide generally powerful in checking the growth of certain bacteria. Sulfathiazole was earlier used in treating gonorrhea and pneumonia.	
Sullivan	like Frank Sullivan, a squirrel, who in the early 60s mailed literature and otherwise attempted to spread the false idea that virtually everyone had been subjected to pain-drug-hypnosis.	
Sullivan, John L.	(1858-1918) American boxer who won the world's heavyweight championship under London Prize Ring rules (bare knuckles) in 1882. Thereafter he was never defeated in a bare-knuckle fight and was the last of the champions in this form of boxing.	
Sun 12	a made-up name for a sun.	
sun, moon and stars, under the	on Earth; in the world.
see sun, under the in this glossary.	
sun, under the	on Earth; in the world.	
Sunday Times	a British weekly newspaper founded in 1822.	
Sunday-Monday line	also called dateline, an imaginary line drawn north and south  through the Pacific Ocean, largely along the 180th meridian: at this line, by  international agreement, each calendar day begins at midnight, so that when it is  Monday just west of the line, it is Sunday just east of it.	
Sundays, long day of	a humorous Variation of a month of Sundays meaning an indeterminately great length of time.	
Sunset Boulevard	a street in Los Angeles, California which was known at the time of this lecture for its high-quality portrait studios.	
super race	a race of pure Aryans (non-Jewish Caucasoids, Nordics, etc.) which Adolf Hitler dreamed of creating as the future master race to rule for a thousand years as the third German Empire or Third Reich. 
See also Hitler in this glossary.	
superchronic	a coined word from super meaning a great or excessive degree and chronic meaning constant; habitual.	
super-duper	(slang) very great; colossal.	
Suppressville	a made‑up name for a town.	
Surgeon General	the head of the US Bureau of Public Health. In January 1964, the results of a two-year United States research project done by an advisory committee to the Surgeon General of the United States were published. The report stated that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to the death rate, and it linked the smoking of cigarettes to cancer, heart diseases, ulcers, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
the chief general officer or admiral in charge of the medical department of the US Army, Air Force or Navy	
Suzie	Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of L. Ron Hubbard.	
Suzie Belle	a nickname for Mary Sue Hubbard. Belle is a feminine name and means a pretty woman or girl; often, one who is prettiest or most popular.	
Svengali	a sinister Hungarian musician and hypnotist in the novel Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier. A young artist's model in Paris (Trilby 0'Ferrall) falls into the hands of Svengali and becomes a great singer under his mesmeric influence, but loses her voice when he suddenly dies of heart failure.	
Swami Bami Hospital	a made-up name for a hospital.	
Swami Gambola	a made-up name for a swami.	
swamishness	state, quality or instance of being like or characteristic of a swami, a mystic;  yogi (one who practices yoga, a Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness  for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity).	
swelled up	puffed up with pride.	
swellisis	a made-up name for a disease.	
swimmingly	with great ease or success.	
swindiferously	a humorous variation of splendiferously meaning splendidly; magnificently.	
swing	change or shift one's attention, interest, opinion, condition, etc.
(figurative) movement; activity, especially vigorous activity.	
swing of, get into the	(colloquial) become accustomed to an activity and begin to enjoy it or do it well.	
swing, back in the	back in complete and active operation; going on without reserve or restraint again.	
swinging	doing fine, splendid, great.	
Swinkopf	a made-up name for a person.	
swishing	moving with a hissing sound like that produced by a switch or similar slender object moved rapidly through the air or an object moving swiftly in contact with water.	
Swiss watch, like a	a Variation of like clockwork, very regular and even.  Swiss watches are known for their delicate, precise workmanship.	
switcheroo	(colloquial) a reversal or turnabout.	
Switzerland pine tree	(usually called simply Swiss pine) a tall pine having dark green leaves in bundles of five, short spreading branches and cones.	
swoop, one fell	(informal) a single effort or action that is completely effective, devastating, etc.
all at the same time; in only one attempt.	
swoops	sudden, sweeping movements.	
swopping	striking; flapping.	
swung	changed or shifted one's attention, interest, opinion, condition, etc.	
symbolic logic	a modern type of formal logic using special mathematical symbols to stand for propositions and for the relationships among propositions.	
synapses	the points of contact between adjacent neurons, where nerve impulses are transmitted from one neurone to the other.	
Synco Company	the name of a paint company at the time of this lecture.	
tack hammer	a light hammer for driving tacks.	
tack, smarter than a	very intelligent; smart; quick-witted.  Variation of sharp as a tack.	
tacks, get down to	a variation of get down to brass tacks meaning to begin the most important work or business; get started on the most important things to talk about or know.	
Tacoma	a seaport in western Washington state, in the United States.	
t-a-d	thrice a day. A variation of the Latin phrase tres in die (three times a day) commonly used in prescriptions.	
'tain't	(dialect) contraction of it ain't: it is not.	
take his finger off his number	stop watching something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
take your finger off your number	stop watching something closely, resulting in a  blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or  some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
taken (one's) finger off of (one's) number	stopped watching something closely, resulting in a blunder.  A Variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
takes his finger off his number	stops watching something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
taking one's finger off one's number	ceasing to watch something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
Tallahassee	a city in and the capital of the state of Florida, USA. 	
tallyman	a recorder or scorekeeper.	
tampions	a plug or stopper put in the muzzle of a gun not in use.	
Tanganyika	the United Republic of Tanzania, a country located in east Africa by the Indian Ocean.	
tangle foot	tangle one's feet or stumble.	
tanglefoot	(slang) an intoxicating beverage, especially whiskey.
with feet tangled up; interlaced or intertwined in a complicated and confused manner; matted, mixed up confusedly.	
tanglefooted	with feet tangled up; interlaced or intertwined in a complicated and confused manner; matted, mixed up confusedly.	
tangle-footed	having tangled feet or stumbling Used figuratively in the lecture.	
tantastical	a made‑up word for an item.	
Tao	a way of knowing how to know. The literal translation of the word is knowingness. It is an ancestor to the word Scientology. The Tao te Ching (ca. 529 B.C.) was the book on this subject written by Lao-tse (604-531 B.C.), one of the great philosophers of China.	
Taoism	a Chinese religion and philosophy based on the doctrines of Lao-tse (604-531 B.C.). Tao means a way of knowing how to know.  The literal translation of the word Tao is knowingness.	
tape in	(gunnery) get the range of (a position); hence, to hit and silence (a target).	
taped	(slang) for certain; under control.
(informal) under full control, knowledge or understanding
(colloquial) sized up, ascertained or understood fully.	
taping	(colloquial) sizing up, ascertaining or understanding fully.	
Tar Baby	a tar doll, set up by a roadside, which so irritates Br'er Rabbit by its unresponsiveness that he strikes it until he is stuck tight. From the book Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880) by Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908, American journalist and author. It is a book of folk tales told by Uncle Remus, an aging Negro servant, whose stories are based on traditional fables of his race. Many of the characters, such as Br'er (Brother) Rabbit, are animals endowed with human qualities.
See also Br'er Rabbit in this glossary.	
tar grenade	a glass container filled with tar (an inflammable liquid) that is dispersed when the glass is thrown and smashed.	
Tarleton, Major	Sir Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), British army officer in the American Revolution. Tarleton arrived in America in 1775, and fought in various battles through 1780. In 1781, Tarleton was sent to South Carolina to stop the American general Daniel Morgan. Morgan skillfully arranged to have his militia seem to run away, as they often did, but this time it was planned. Tarleton fell into the trap. Before it was over, Tarleton had lost over 600 men and Morgan had lost very few. Tarleton returned to England in 1782.	
Tartar	(slang) a person hard to beat or surpass in skill; champion. After members of any of various tribes who, originally under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran Asia and much of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Tasmanian	of or having to do with Tasmania, a triangular-shaped island south of the eastern mainland of Australia. Used humorously in reference to the fact that E-Meters have never been made in Tasmania.	
Tasmanian Sea	a reference to the Tasman Sea, the part of the South Pacific Ocean between southeast Australia and western New Zealand.	
taximeter flag	a small flag on an automatic device which shows the amount of fare owed in a taxi cab. It sticks up, stating "for hire," to attract attention and is pushed down when the meter is activated.	
Taylor & Sanford's	a made-up name for a company.	
Taylor & Sudrow's	a made-up name for a company.	
TB	abbreviation for tuberculosis, an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs.	
technique XZ 77-hup	a made-up name for a technique.	
Technirama	(trademark) a process developed in the mid-1950s by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation for producing wide-screen motion pictures with excellent Definition and clarity.	
Teddy boy	(informal) a rebellious British youth who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, wore the dress of the reign of Edward VII. Teddy is a nickname for Edward.
See also Edwardian period in this glossary.	
Teddy boys	(informal) rebellious British youths who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, wore the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
See also Edwardian period in this glossary.	
teeth in it, has	is effective or forceful.	
teeth in of, kick the living	a variation of the phrase beat the living daylights out of, meaning "to defeat or thrash thoroughly."	
teeth in, kicking (one's)	giving (one) abrupt, often humiliating setbacks.	
teeth of, in the	so as to face or confront; straight into or against.	
teeth of, into the	directly and forcefully against.	
teeth on, cut (one's)	(informal) gain experience from (something); learn from. Derived from reference to a child whose teeth are just beginning to appear (i.e., beginning to cut through the gums).	
teeth out, spitting (one's)	(colloquial) expressing vehement anger; raging. A variation of spitting blood.	
teeth, have (someone or something) by the	(slang) have control of. A variation of have  (someone or something) by the tail.	
teeth, in the	so as to face or confront; straight into or against.	
teeth, kick in the	an abrupt and often humiliating setback.	
teeth, lying in (one's)	telling lies in an open and unashamed manner.	
teeth, take the bit in (one's)	be obstinately self-willed; make up one's mind not to yield.  When a horse has a mind to run away, he catches the bit between his teeth and the driver no longer has control over him.	
Tel & Tel	shares of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a company founded in 1885 to build long distance Telephone lines in the United States. It has become the largest communication company in the world.	
telegraph pole, wrap (someone) around a	(slang) tangle up or confuse (someone). Taken from the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused Condition was likened to a Person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
telegraph poles, wrap (something) around a couple of	(slang) tangle up or confuse (something).  Taken from the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused Condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it.  It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
telegraph poles, wrapped (one) around four	(slang) tangled up or confused (one).  Taken from the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused Condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it.  It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out. 	
telegraph poles, wrapped around a few	(slang) tangled up or confused. Taken from the US West where a tangled‑up man in a confused condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
telegraph poles, wrapping (someone) around very many	(slang) tangling up or confusing (someone).  From the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it.  It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
Telesurance	the name of a business at the time of this lecture.	
telling, there's no	it is impossible to find out or know about (something).	
Telstar	either of two experimental communications satellites, used between 10 July 62 and May 65, to amplify and relay various signals, especially television, across the oceans.	
Ten Commandments	(Bible) the ten laws forming the fundamental moral code of Israel, given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.	
Tesla, Nikola	(1856-1943) American electrical engineer and inventor, born in Austria-Hungary. He emigrated in 1884 to the US. In 1888 he designed the first practical system of generating and transmitting alternating current for electric power. He is recognized as one of the outstanding pioneers in the electric-power field.	
Tetragrammaton	the four Hebrew letters usually transliterated (represented in the corresponding characters of another alphabet) as YHWH or JHVH (Yahweh or Jehovah) and used as a biblical proper name for God.	
Texas	a state in the southwest United States on the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican border.
See also Gulf in this glossary.	
Texas, University of	an accredited, coeducational, state-Controlled institution occupying approximately 1,100 acres. The main campus is located in Austin, Texas.	
textbook	derived from, dependent upon or typieal of a textbook.	
Thacker, Ray	a staff member at HASI London at the time of this lecture.	
Thames	the longest river in England, flowing generally eastward across southern England and through London to the North Sea.	
Thames Water Board	an official body controlling the Thames River, the principal river of England. The board controls the navigation, use and conservation of the river water, etc.	
thar	a variant of there.	
thatagirl	(slang) an exclamation of encouragement or admiration. (A corruption of "that's the girl," this expression is also seen as "that's a girl" and "attagirl.")	
that-a-girl	(slang) an exclamation of encouragement or admiration.	
that's a boy	(slang) an exclamation of encouragement or admiration. (A corruption of "that's the boy," this expression is also seen as "thataboy" and "attaboy.")	
that's a girl	(slang) an exclamation of approval or encouragement. (A corruption of "that's the girl," this expression is also seen as "thatagirl.")	
that's-that-ed	(informal) settled; decided. A variation of the phrase that's that.	
that-un	(dialect) that one.	
The boy stood on the burning deck	a humorous reference to the poem Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) about the death of the son of a French naval captain in 1798. The ship that they were on caught fire while the boy was on watch, and the father was burnt to death. The boy stood by his post until the ship blew up:
"The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled.
The flame that licked the battle's wreck
Shown round him o'er the dead.
The flames rolled on;
he would not go
Without his father's word."
There have been many corruptions of this poem by anonymous authors.	
Thebes	a city in ancient Egypt which was the royal residence and site where kings and nobles were entombed in great splendor in crypts cut into the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile. The cities which now occupy parts of its site are famous for the magnificent ruins of temples, statues and tombs.	
thee	(archaic) you.	
them	(dialect) a nonstandard way of saying those.	
theory of relativity	a theory proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. Although complete understanding of this theory requires a knowledge of the most exotic branches of mathematics, these are some of its basic points:
(1)	Time is not an absolute. The faster a body moves, the slower its clock runs. A minute on Earth may pass in fifty-nine seconds or sixty-one seconds on planets traveling at speeds different from that of Earth.
(2)	the speed of light remains constant in all frames of reference. Whether you are moving toward a light source or away from it, the light will still reach you at the same speed (186,000 miles per second).
(3)	All motion is relative. Therefore, there can be no such thing as absolute rest.
(4)	Moving bodies acquire mass as they increase in speed. The faster a body travels, the heavier it becomes. As a body approaches the speed of light, it adds mass very rapidly. If it were to reach the speed of light, its mass would become infinite. If this were true it could be seen that no body could ever travel faster than the speed of light. The additional weight acquired by an accelerating body would make penetration of the light barrier impossible.
(5)	Mass and energy are mutually convertible.
See also Einstein in this glossary.	
theosophist	one who believes in or supports theosophy, any system of philosophy or religion that claims to have a special insight into the divine nature through spiritual self-development.	
theosophy	any system of philosophy or religion that claims to have a special insight into the divine nature through spiritual self-development.	
Theosophy Society	a reference to the Theosophical Society, an organization founded in 1875, one of the purposes of which was "to investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man." Though numerically small at first, the Society has grown into an international body organized in over fifty countries, with international headquarters in India.	
Thermofax	(trademark) a copy made through a process for copying documents by means of infrared radiation using heat-sensitive paper.	
thin air, out of	out of nothing or from nowhere.	
thingamabob	(informal) a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.	
thingamagooge	(informal) a thing which is difficult to classify or whose name has been forgotten or is not known.  A Variation of thingamabob.	
thingamagubbit	(informal) a thing which is difficult to classify or whose name has been forgotten or is not known. A variation of thingamabob.	
Thinker	reference to the bronze statue The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. It depicted a seated man supporting his chin on his wrist and arm on his knee.
See also Rodin in this glossary.	
thirteen states	reference to the original thirteen British colonies that became the United States in 1776. These were Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.	
This Was Your Life Mabel	a reference to a semidocumentary-style television show of the 1950s and early 1960s called "This Is Your Life," in which the lives of show-business personalities who appeared as guests were relived through the testimonies of friends and family.	
Thomas	a Scientology staff member at the time of this lecture	
Thompson, Commander	Joseph Thompson (1874-1943), a commander in the US Navy Medical Corps who studied with Sigmund Freud in Vienna and was a friend of L. Ron Hubbard when Ron was a boy.	
Thornville	a town in central Ohio (a northeastern state in the United States), in the vicinity of Columbus.	
thou	(archaic) the one spoken to; you.	
Thoughtport	a made-up name for a location.	
three and six	short for three shillings, six pence. A shilling is a former British monetary unit equal to 1/20 of a pound, and a pence is British for penny.	
three sheets to the wind	(slang) drunk. From the fact that a drunken person is as helpless and disorganized as a sailboat with its sheets (sails) flying and hence its course and movement entirely out of control.	
three-card monte	(cards) a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.	
throat cut, getting (one’s)	bringing about (one's) ruin.	
throat, at (someone's)	attacking (someone) with great anger. Used figuratively in this lecture. A variation of flying at (someone's) throat.	
throat, cut (one’s)	bring about (one’s) own ruin.	
throat, cutting (their)	bringing about (their) ruin.	
throat, foree (something) down (someone's)	(informal) force (someone) to agree to or  accept (something).	
throat, shove (something) down (someone's)	(informal) force (someone) to agree to or accept (something). 	
Throgmagog	a term coined by LRH to mean something an individual unknowingly mocks up that will give him all kinds of advice and tell him what to do; an automatic regulator of one's destiny so an individual doesn't have to take responsibility for anything that happens to him.
a made-up name for a god.	
throttle on the floorboard, put the	(figurative) go at maximum speed.	
thrumming	sounding with a repeated monotonous hum, as a string or an instrument when strummed.	
thuggee	reference to a thug: a member of a former religious organization in India that murdered and robbed.	
thumb, rule of	general or approximate principle, procedure or rule based on experience or practice as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.	
thunderstrucking	causing sudden amazement, terror or the like; making one  greatly amazed, astonished, terrified or confounded.	
thunk	a humorous variation of "think."	
Thus Spake Zarathustra	a philosophical narrative written by Friedrich Nietzsche, in which the ancient Persian philosopher Zarathustra is used as a mouthpiece for the author's views. The work is written in quasibiblical style, and develops Nietzsche's doctrine of the superman.
See also Nietzsche in this glossary.	
thy	(archaic) your.	
thyself	(archaic) yourself.	
tibiosis of the filamoriasis	a made-up name for a disease.	
tick-tock	(colloquial) a clock.	
tie into	(informal) attack physically or with words; begin to hit or criticize.	
Tiffany's	a large store founded in New York City (1837) by Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812‑1902). It specializes in jewelry, glassware and china. Purchases of European crown jewels gave the store its reputation for selling only the best of jewelry.	
Tiger Moth	a light military aireraft produced in the early 1900s by the de Havilland Aireraft Company Ltd., UK.	
tight spot	(figurative) an unfruitful, embarrassing, disastrous or dangerous situation from which one will have difficulty extracting oneself or succeeding; a situation in which one needs assistance, luck or all one's ingenuity to extract oneself or succeed; a potentially disastrous situation.	
tightrope	a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
tightwire	a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which aerialists perform feats of balancing. Used figuratively in this lecture.	
Timbuktu	a town in west Africa, near the Niger River. The name Timbuttu is used to mean any faraway place.	
Time magazine	a weekly news magazine in the United States, cofounded by Henry Luce in  1923. Time has a history of presenting biased articles, tailored to fit the editorial slant  of the magazine.	
time stream	(figurative) the continuous flow of time.	
Times	short for New York Times: one of the largest circulating newspapers in the United States, published in New York.	
Times Square	the heart of the New York City theater district, formed by the intersection  of Broadway and Seventh Avenue between Forty-second and Forty-fourth Streets.	
Times, The	one of the best-known newspapers of England. It is published in London and  was founded in 1785.	
Timur Lenk	(1335-1405) Mongol conqueror and great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan.  He conquered great parts of Russia, Persia, India and central Asia.  He was noted chiefly for his savage exploits, despite his promotion of art and science. Timur Lenk literally means "Timur the Lame."	
Tinny-Tin	nickname for Quentin.
See also Quentin in this glossary.	
Tipperary	a city in Ireland which is well known chiefly because of the song "Tipperary" which was popular with the English-speaking Allies in World War I. The song started with the line "It's a long way to Tipperary." It became one of the ballads of World War I after British troops began to sing it, although the song itself had nothing to do with the war.	
'tisn't	(colloquial) contraction of it isn't.	
Titanic	a British luxury ocean liner, thought to be unsinkable, which sank on its first voyage in 1912 after running into an iceberg in the north Atlantic Ocean.	
Titans	(mythology) gods who ruled the universe until they were overthrown by Zeus, the supreme god of the ancient Greeks.	
To be or not to be	a quote from Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
"To be, or not to be-that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles . .
See also Stratford-on-Avon in this glossary.	
toaster, cleaner than a	(colloquial) a variation of clean as a whistle, completely and entirely clean; without fault or error. A toaster is an electric appliance for toasting bread which is often nickel-plated or made of aluminum and very shiny.	
Tobruk	a small port in northeastern Libya, in north Africa, about 75 miles west of the Egyptian border.  Site of several major World War II battles between German troops led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the British.
See also Rommel in this glossary.	
toe in the door, get (one's)	(colloquial) gain entrance into something (e.g., an organization, group, activity, etc.), especially something into which such entrance is difficult to obtain. A variation of get one's foot in the door.	
toe the mark	be very careful to do just what one is supposed to do; obey the rules and do one's duties.	
tolahedron	a made-up word for a geometric shape.	
tong hatchet	a small ax with a short handle used by a hired Chinese assassin who is a member of a Chinese tong, an association or secret society of Chinese in the US, who are frequently associated with underworld criminal activity.	
tongue-between-the-teeth	immediately sorry for what one has said.  A Variation of bite (one's) tongue off	
too too	(slang) excessively polite, stylish or affected.	
took (one) by storm	captured (one) by a sudden or very bold attack.	
took (one’s) finger off (one’s) button	a Variation of take (one's) finger off (one's) number.
See taken (one's) finger off of (one’s) number in this glossary.	
took my finger off my number	stopped watching something closely, resulting in a blonder. A Variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
tools of the trade	(law) instruments or devices necessary to one's profession or occupation.	
tooth and toenail	a variation of tooth and nail, in good earnest, with one's utmost power; as though biting and scratching.	
toothpicks	(slang) swords.	
tootle-gun	a made-up word for a type of gun. A tootle is the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like.	
top dog	the one in the most desirable position; most important; best; most competent; most desired; having the best reputation for success.	
Top of the Mark	the name of a cocktail lounge (in existence since 1926) located on the top floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.	
top-dog	of the most desirable position; most important; best; most competent; most desired; having the best reputation for success.	
Topsy	in the book, Uncle Toms Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a young black slave girl whose ignorance and unconscious humor provide comic relief Her replies to questioning such as: "Never was born" and "I 'spect I grow'd," have made her a symbol of spontaneity and aimless development.
See also Uncle Toms Cabin in this glossary.	
totem pole	(figurative) a symbol of a hierarchy (group of persons or things arranged in  order of rank, grade, class, etc.). Literally, a totem pole is a pole on which some  Native Americans carved totems—figures of animals, plants or other objects in nature  that had a special relationship to a person, family or clan and serving as symbols for  that person or group. The totem pole usually stood in front of a house or shelter.	
Tower	the Tower of London, a fortress made up of several buildings on the Thames  River in London, England, and serving in historic times as a palace, prison, place of  execution, etc.	
Town and County Planning Commission	reference to a British agency, Town and Country Planning, which administers town-planning laws, including such things as the architectural features of buildings and zoning.	
Toynbee	Arnold Joseph (1889-1975), English historian, educated at Oxford.  He achieved his greatest fame for his monumental work, A Study of History, an investigation into the growth, development and decay of civilizations.  He believed in the theory that the course of history is controlled by psychic rather than materialistic forces.	
Trafalgar Square	one of the main public squares in London, named after the battle of Trafalgar, in which Lord Horatio Nelson's British fleet overwhelmingly defeated a large fleet of French and Spanish ships. Trafalgar Square has in it a 168-foot-tall monument to Lord Nelson.	
transcendentalism	any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by a study of the processes of thought, not from experience.	
transorbital leukotomy	(psychiatry) an operation in which the patient is electrically shocked while an ordinary dime store ice pick is thrust into each eye and shoved up to rip the brain apart.	
transorbital migrations	a coined phrase from transmigration, the passing of a soul at death into another body and orbital, of, belonging to, or of the nature of an orbit (especially of a heavenly body).	
trap gun	a gun used in trapshooting (the sport of shooting at clay pigeons or disks, sprung into the air from traps).	
traveling ovals	a continuous connected, overlapping series of ovals about the size of an uppercase letter O, which is done as a writing exercise.	
Treasure Island	the name of the island with buried treasure in the book Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.
See also Long John Silver in this glossary.	
Treasury Department	a department of the US federal government having general responsibility for setting federal fiscal policy (the policy of a government in controlling its own expenditures and taxation). It controls the printing of money and includes within it the Internal Revenue Service (a division of the Treasury Department responsible for assessment and collection of federal taxes).	
tree, run (someone) up the	caused (someone) to become irrational or hysterical; maddened (someone). A variation of the phrase drove (someone) up the wall.	
tricks of the trade	pieces of expert knowledge; smart, quick or skillful ways of working at a trade or job.	
trigged out	put into a good Condition made strong; made sound.	
trigger guard	a part of a gun (such as a handgun or rifle) designed to help keep the weapon from accidental firing by protecting the trigger from being bumped or snagged.  It is usually in the form of a curved piece of metal which goes around and beneath the trigger itself.	
trillennia	a coined word meaning a very large number of years.	
Tristram, Sir	the main character in The Book of Sir Tristam of Lyoness. Sir Tristam was one of the most valiant knights of the Round Table.	
troop	(British military) carry (the flag or colors) in a ceremonial way before troops.	
Troy	an ancient city in Asia Minor (ca. 1200 B.C.), site of the Trojan War—a ten-year war waged against Troy by the Greeks to recover the Greek king's wife, Helen, who had been abducted by Paris, a Trojan.	
truck	(nautical) a circular or square piece of wood fixed on the head of a mast or the top of a flagstaff, usually comaining small holes for signal halyards (ropes fitted with clips for hoisting flags).	
truck light	(US Navy) a signaling light at the top of a mast.	
True Confession	a magazine containing sensational articles about supposedly real persons and their problems.	
True Romances	a magazine containing sensational articles about supposedly real persons  and their romances.	
True Story	a magazine started in 1919 which was devoted to the personal narratives of plain people, telling of their problems and how they solved them.	
Truman	Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953).  In 1951, during the Korean War, Truman had a dispute with General Douglas MacArthur.  MacArthur, who commanded the troops of the United Nations, wanted to use American air power to attack the People's Republic of China.  Truman refused, fearing that an American attack on China would bring the Soviet Union into the war.  When MacArthur criticized Truman's decision publicly, Truman declared MacArthur insubordinate, and removed him as commanding general.
See also North Korean in this glossary.	
Truman, Harry	Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953).	
Truman, Mr.	Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953). In 1951, during the Korean War, Truman had a dispute with General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, who commanded the troops of the United Nations, wanted to use American air power to attack the People's Republic of China. Truman refused, fearing that an American attack on China would bring the Soviet Union into the war. When MacArthur criticized Truman's decision publicly, Truman declared MacArthur insubordinate and removed him as commanding general.	
trumbosis powder	a made-up name for a powder.	
try (something) on for size	(colloquial) find out how (something) suits one or how much one likes (something).	
TT Model 650s	a raeing motorcyele that was produced by Triumph Motors in England. TT was an abbreviation for Tourist Trophy (the name of the model). 650 indieates the size of the engine (650 ce).	
Tucson	a large city in southeastern Arizona (a state in the southwestern United States), in  a desert surrounded by mountains.	
tums	brand name of a chewable digestive aid which comes in small white round tablets.
a made-up word.	
Turk	a cruel, brutal, and domineering man. A name applied to anyone having qualities sometimes attributed to the Turks.	
Turk's-head	a type of ornamental knot tied by winding small cord around a larger rope, used especially by sailors.	
turn over hell, heaven and everything else	do all that can be done. A variation of the phrase move heaven and earth.	
Turnbull, Ross	a Melbourne staff member at the time of this lecture.	
turret	a mounting fitted to the front of a camera and carrying several lenses, any of which can be brought into use by rotating the mounting.	
Twain, Mark	pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American author and humorist.  He wrote numerous books and papers including The Second Advent, a satire of conventional pieties and a short story called The Holy Children, a satire on the conventional Christian views.	
Tweetie Candies	a made‑up name.	
twelfth or thirteenth commandment	(Bible) a humorous reference to the Ten Commandments, the commandments engraved on stone tablets and given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.	
twelve-pass express highway	a divided highway with twelve lanes for high-speed, through traffic, with controlled access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections.	
Twentieth Century Limited	a famous American passenger train which ran between New York and Chicago and other northern cities in the United States.	
twigs	a made‑up name for a meter read.	
twilight zone	an ill-defined area between two distinct conditions, categories, etc., usually comprising certain features of both; an indefinite boundary.	
twist	a dance performed by couples and characterized by strongly rhythmic turns and twists of the arms, legs and torso.	
twist, the	a dance performed by couples and characterized by strongly rhythmic turns and twists of the arms, legs and torso.	
twisteroo	a coined word from twist (an irregular bend; a crook; a kink) and -eroo (a humorous slang suffix added to nouns).	
twistosis	a made-up name for a disease. From twist and -osis, a suffix meaning an abnormal or diseased condition.	
twitchenin'	(colloquial) a variation of twitching, jerking or jumping.	
two-bit	(slang) inferior or unimportant; small time. From the US slang word two-bits, a quarter of a dollar.	
two-house system	a legislative system in which there are two assemblies (or houses) of legislators.  Examples are the House of Representatives and the Senate in the United States congress, and the House of Commons and House of Lords in Great Britain's parliament.	
Tyler's	a wine, beer and spirits merchant as well as a catering Service in East Grinstead, England at the time of this lecture.	
typhoid fever	an infectious, often fatal, febrile (feverish) disease characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.	
Tyrrhenian Sea	a branch of the Mediterranean between the western coast of Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.  It is sometimes called the Tuscan Sea.	
U-2 plane	a high-altitude, high-performance, photo-reconnaissance spy plane.  The U stands for utility, assigned originally to disguise the fact that these were spy planes, and 2 is the model number.	
ubconseious reconscious	made-up terms for imaginary aspects of the mind; humorous alteration of the psychiatric terms "conscious," "subconscious," "unconscious," etc.	
über alles 	(German) above all else. From the opening words of the German national  anthem, "Deutschland [Germany] über alles."	
UCLA	abbreviation for University of California at Los Angeles, one of the eight campuses of the University of California.  UCLA is comprised of colleges of Letters and Science, Engineering, Applied Arts and Agriculture, and schools of Business Administration, Education, Pharmacy, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Social Welfare.	
Ug	a made-up name.	
Ug-bug tribe	a made-up name for a tribe.	
ugly head, raises its	(usually of something bad) appears after lying hidden.	
umbekillus	a made-up name for a body part.	
um‑bum theory	a made‑up name for a theory.	
umph	(slang) spirit; vigor; vitality; enthusiasm.	
umphty-umph	a coined word from umpty, an undefined number.	
umpty-bumpty	a coined word from umpty, an undefined number, usually large and bumpty, a made-up word rhyming with umpty.	
umpty-dozen	a coined word from umpty, of an undefined number and dozen, a set of twelve.	
umpty-skillion	a coined word from umpty, an undefined number, and skillion, a made-up name for a very large number.	
unbale	undo (goods) from a bale or bales. A bale is a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords or the like, and sometimes having a wrapping or covering. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
unbaling	undoing (goods) from a bale or bales. A bale is a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords or the like and sometimes having a wrapping or covering. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Uncle Tom's Cabin	a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) which relates the trials, suffering and human dignity of Uncle Tom, an old Negro slave who is cruelly treated and dies as the result of a beating.	
unconchible	a made‑up word.	
under the gun	(colloquial) in a tense, demanding situation or threatened state, often one involving a deadline.	
under the sun, moon and stars	on earth; in the world.	
underbeat	a coined term denoting a lower harmonic. A harmonic is one of two or more manifestations or actions which are, themselves, different yet are related in terms of some quality or qualities.	
Underwood & Underwood	a photo agency which initiated a news-picture service in New York in 1896.	
Unguts	a made-up name.	
Union	the northern area of the United States that fought to preserve the United States in the Civil War.
See also South, the in this glossary.
	
Union Station	a process which was developed by Ron in the mid-1950s when he was in Washington, DC.  It was named after Union Station, a large railroad station there.
For more information on this process, see R2-46 in Ability Major 6, Basic Processes, in Technical Bulletins Volume III.	
United Fruit	an American company which owned large banana plantations in Central America in the early 1950s.	
United Nations	an international organization with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by fifty-one founding countries in San Francisco in 1945.	
United Press	short for United Press International, a business organization of newspapers in the US, together with representatives abroad for the reporting and interchange of news.	
UNIVAC	abbreviation for Universal Automatie Computer, an early, generalpurpose computer for commercial use.	
universeth	a humorous variation of the word "universe," adding -eth which is an archaic  ending for a word.	
University of Chicago	a privately controlled educational institution located in Chicago, Illinois in the Midwestern United States.	
University of Illinois	a state-controlled university with its main campus located in eastern Illinois, about 125 miles from Chicago.	
University of Kansas	an accredited, coeducational university located in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
See also Lawrence in this glossary.	
University of San Antonio	a made-up name for a university. San Antonio is a city in south central Texas.	
University of Southern California	an accredited, coeducational, privately controlled university near Los Angeles, California.	
unsnavel	a made-up word which rhymes with unravel. Snavel is a slang term which means to steal, appropriate or grab.	
up against it	(informal) faced with a great difficulty or problem; badly in need.	
up scale	into a better condition or state of being.	
up-on-the-pedestalledness	the quality of being regarded with great or excessive admiration; being idolised. A variation of the phrase put on a pedestal.	
upped	made up, formed or composed.	
Upper 3D Galactic Space Ranger Empire	a made-up name for a space empire.	
upscales	brings into a better Condition or state of being.	
uptown	of, for or characteristic of affluent people; elegant, stylish or luxurious.	
US State Department	the department of the executive branch of the US government in charge of relations with foreign countries.	
USS Astoria	short for United States Ship Astoria, an American cruiser which was lost at sea during World War II.	
USS Constitution	an American warship launched in 1797 and regarded by Americans as the most famous ship in the history of the US Navy. She was named "Old Ironsides" by sailors in 1812 when British shot failed to penetrate the side of the ship in battle with the British. USS is an abbreviation for United States Ship.	
USS Missouri	short for United States Ship Missouri, one of the largest battleships during World War II.	
USS Washington	short for United States Ship Washington, a US battleship which fought in the South Pacific during World War II.
See also World War II in this glossary.	
Utgut, Professor	a made-up name for a professor.	
V8	(trademark) a brand of vegetable juice popular in the United States.	
V-8 engine	an automobile engine in the shape of a V, with four cylinders on each of the two cylinder heads, opposite each other, instead of all eight cylinders in a single line.	
Valentine's Day	a holiday celebrated on the 14th of February. Originally a Roman feast day, it was Christianized in memory of the martyr St. Valentine (died A.D. 270). In the Middle Ages, Valentine became associated with the union of lovers under conditions of duress. Today the holiday is celebrated with the exchange of romantic or comic messages called "valentines."	
Valentino, Rudolph	(1895‑1926) a US motion‑pieture aetor, born in Italy. He was the great romantic idol of the 1920s.	
Valley of the Dead	reference to the Valley of the Kings, a cemetery located in ancient Thebes which contains the tombs of many Egyptian Pharaohs.	
valve	(electronics) a vacuum tube or electron tube.	
Van der Dobin	a made-up name for a painter.	
van Eyck	a family name of two famous Flemish painters of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.  Hubert van Eyck (died 1426) was known for his church art.  Jan van Eyck (died 1441) was renowned for his jewel-like Madonnas and portrait panels.  Their works had a characteristic perfection and transparent glow.	
van Gogh	a painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch painter whose work, though virtually unknown during his lifetime, is now highly regarded.	
Van Loon, Hendrick	(1882-1944) Dutch-American historian and biographer. He wrote an enormously successful series of books, illustrated by himself, which aimed to explain the world and its complexities both to children and to mystified adults.	
van Niekerk, Paul	a Scientologist in South Africa at the time of this lecture.	
Van Vogt	A.E. Van Vogt (1912- ), science fiction author who was involved in squirreling Dianetics.	
VD	abbreviation for venereal disease; any disease transmitted by sexual contact.	
ve	(dialect) we.	
Veda	one of the oldest scriptures of Hinduism; a religious hymn which is about the earliest known material or knowledge here on Earth in the form of data.	
veintiuno	(Spanish) twenty-first.	
Venice	a historic and picturesque port city in northeastern Italy, located on the Adriatic Sea. The city is built on 118 islets, is traversed by 160 canals and is only a few feet above sea level. The tourist trade is one of Venice's principal sources of income.	
Verboten, Hans	a made-up name for a painter.  Verboten means "forbidden" in German.	
verdammt	(German informal) damned.	
Versailles	reference to the Treaty of Versailles, the treaty that officially ended World War I, signed at the Palace of Versailles in France. The leading figures at the treaty negotiations were Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Britain and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States. The treaty required Germany to give up land and much of its army and navy and to pay extensive reparations for damages to civilians in the war. German discontent over the terms of the Treaty of Versailles led to the outbreak of World War II.	
Versailles	a city in northern France, about 10 miles southwest of Paris. It was here that the treaty that officially ended World War I was signed. This treaty required Germany to give up land and much of its army and navy and to pay extensive reparations for damages to c*ilians in the war.	
Vesuvius	an active volcano in southeastern Italy. Its earliest recorded eruption in A.D. 79 buried three Roman cities.	
Vesuvius, Mount	an active volcano in southeastern Italy. Its earliest recorded eruption in A.D. 79 buried three Roman cities.	
Victorian	of that period of English history which occurred during the rule of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).  It was characterized as very respectable and religious in a formal way, whereas people during this time period often only pretended to be good and pure (especially in matters of sex).	
Victorian hat	a type of headdress worn by women during the 1930s and 1940s which reflected those of the Victorian era (1837-1901, the reign of Queen Victoria in England). This was composed of a net worn over the hair, often having a small hat attached. Also called a Queen Victoria hat.	
Vienna	capital of Austria, an important military and commercial center. The development of psychoanalysis and psychiatry has been associated with its name.
See also Freud in this glossary.	
Vietnam	a country in Southeast Asia; the site of the Vietnam War, in which the United States fought in the 1960s and 1970s. The war was waged from 1954 to 1975 between communist North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. The involvement of the United States in the war was extremely controversial, and reports of atrocities committed by both sides disturbed many Americans.	
Vigo	a seaport in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic Ocean.	
vimenk	a humorous pronunciation of "women."	
vin rouge	(French) red wine.	
vinegar	(infiormal) vigor; high spirits; vim.	
Virginia	an auditor at the time of the lecture.	
viridian	a bluish-green color.	
viridian with envy	a variation of green with envy, meaning very jealous. Viridian is a bluish green color.	
vis-à-vis	(French) face to face.	
Vishnu	the second member of the Hindu trinity, though worshipped by many Hindus as the supreme deity.  He is usually represented as four-armed and carrying a club, a shell, a discus and a lotus; a bow and sword are slung at his side.	
vitriolic acid	concentrated sulfuric acid: an oily, colorless liquid that is a strong acid and is used in making explosives, fertilizers, chemicals, etc.	
vivandiere	a person who supplies food or other provisions to troops in the field.	
Vixie	the name of the Hubbard family's pet dog at the time of this lecture.	
VMI	abbreviation for Virginia Military Institute, a state-supported military school for men in Lexington, Virginia. The students at Virginia Military Institute are called cadets. They live in barracks, wear military uniforms and adhere to a disciplinary system similar to that of the United States Military Academy. VMI's graduates have played an active part in every war since its founding in 1839.	
vocotyper	a machine which receives speech and converts it to type.	
Volstead Act	a law passed by the United States Congress in 1920 to implement the Prohibition (the outlawing of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933).	
Voltaire	assumed name of Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French author and philosopher who believed in freedom of thought and respect for all men, and who spoke out against intolerance, tyranny and superstition. He believed that men could agree about two or three points that they can understand, but they can only argue to no purpose about two or three thousand that they can never understand.	
volte-vis	a variation of the French term volte-face, meaning a complete reversal of opinion, attitude, etc.	
vomica	eject, vomit.	
Wac	(US) a member of the Women's Army Corps.	
Waco	a city in central Texas with a population of about 95,000.	
Waddingham	a Saint Hill staff member at the time of this lecture, in charge of the grounds and construction at Saint Hill.	
waddle-gabopped	a made-up word.	
Wadsworth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet.  The following is from his poem "A Psalm of Life" (1939):
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."	
Wagner	Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German composer, musical theorist and originator of the "music drama," which revolutionized opera. Wagner's music is noted for its powerful, dramatic qualities.	
wagon	(slang) any vehicle used to remove a person to a place of restriction, as to an insane asylum.  Used figuratively in this lecture.	
wagon, the	(slang) any vehicle used to remove a person to a place of restriction, as to an insane asylum. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
wahf-wahf	a made-up word.	
Waiting for Godot	a play written in 1952 by Irish-born French novelist and dramatist Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). It is a tragicomedy about two tramps, in which nothing happens except trivial events and conversations that suggest the meaninglessness of life.	
wall	a type of knot formed on the end of a rope which has many uses, such as for finishing off the ends when two or more ropes have been tied together.	
Wall Street Journal	a newspaper published by Dow Jones (American financial statisticians), providing financial news and considered an authoritative publication in the financial and business communities.	
Wallace	Joe Wallace, a Scientologist who built and sold E-Meters in the 1950s.	
Wally	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
Walnut Lodge	a humorous Variation of Chestnut Lodge Hospital, a mental institution in Rockville, Maryland. 	
Walter Reed	the general hospital of the army medical center at Washington, DC.	
wanna	(colloquial) want to.	
War Department	a former federal executive department organized in 1789 to administer the military establishment.  In 1949, it was reconstituted as the Department of the Army, a division within the Department of Defense.	
War Office	the former department of the British government, presided over by the Secretary of State for War, which was charged with the entire administration of the Army. The British War Office was incorporated in 1964 into the Ministry of Defence, under the Secretary of State for Defence.	
war whoop	any war cry; shout of battle.	
ware	(archaic) beware of, guard against; avoid, shun, keep clear of. The phrase "ware shoal" is nautical—a warning to beware of a shoal: a sandbar, etc., forming a shallow place that is a danger to navigation, especially one that can be seen when the water is low. This phrase is often used figuratively.	
ware shoal:	(archaic) beware of, guard against; avoid, shun, keep clear of The phrase "ware shoal" is nautical‑a warning to beware of a shoal: a sand bar, etc., forming a shallow place that is a danger to navigation, especially one that can be seen when the water is low.	
Warner Brothers	a major US motion-picture studio, which finances, produces and distributes feature films. During the 1930s and 1940s the company kept its popularity through tough gangster films.	
Was ist	(German) a common way of saying "What is it?"; What is up?"	
Washington	short for Washington, DC: the eapital of the United States. DC is an abbreviation for District of Columbia which is a federal distriet that occupies the same area as Washington, DC and is under the control of the federal government directly rather than being a part of any of the states.
abbreviated term for the Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, DC (District of Columbia).	
Washington congress	a reference to the Clean Hands Congress, held in Washington, DC from 30 December 1961 through 1 January 1962, where L. Ron Hubbard gave nine lectures covering the technology of the Goals Problem Mass and its handling, valences, withholds, Sec Checks, havingness and rudiments.	
Washington Monument	the white marble obelisk (tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward its pyramidal top) in Washington, DC, in memory of George Washington (1732-1799), first president of the United States (1789-1797).	
Washington School of Freudian Appendectomies	a made-up name for a school.
See also Freudian in this glossary.	
Washington, DC	the capital of the United States. DC is an abbreviation for District of Columbia which is a federal district that occupies the same area as Washington, DC and is under the control of the federal government directly rather than being a part of any of the states.	
Washington, George	(1732-1799) US general and political leader. He was the commander in chief of American forces during the American Revolution (1776-1783) and first president of the United States (1789-1797).	
Wassermann	a humorous reference to a diagnostic test for syphilis, named after its inventor, August von Wassermann (1866-1925), German physician and bacteriologist.	
Watch and Ward Society of Boston	a vigilance committee in the city of Boston. It was a stalwart defender of conventional morals, being strongly opposed to anything it considered obscene. Watch and ward are terms formerly used to denote guard by night and by day respectively; from the 13th century practice where townships were made responsible for appointing watchmen.	
water gun	a toy pistol that shoots water in a stream.	
water under the dam, over the bridge	something that happened in the past and cannot be changed. A variation of water ouer the dam, under the bridge.	
Waterloo, Battle of	a battle in Belgium in 1815 in which the British defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte. The battle was fought over three days (June 16th, 17th and 18th) and a rainstorm on the evening of the 17th created wet conditions of the already marshy ground which delayed the French attack. A cavalry commander in the French army ran his horsemen into a sunken road, losing them but allowing the infantry to then march across the top of it. Napoleon's troops were nevertheless defeated. Napoleon abdicated as emperor a few days later, and he was subsequently captured and sent into exile. 	
Watson	Dr. Watson, a character portrayed in the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the admiring friend of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" is often attributed to Holmes when replying to Watson's queries on how he had solved a complex crime or mystery.	
Watt	James Watt (1736-1819), Scottish engineer and inventor; invented the modern version of the steam engine. The watt, a unit of electrical power, was named after him.	
Watt, James	(1736-1819) Scottish engineer and inventor; invented the modern version of the steam engine. The watt, a unit of electrical power, was named after him.	
way, in a bad	(informal) in trouble or likely to have trouble.	
Wayne, John	(1907-1979) one of the best known and most successful US motion-picture actors of the twentieth century who often played ”tough guys,” particularly soldiers and cowboys. He appeared in over 125 films.	
ways, the	(nautical) the timbered structure on which a ship is built and from which it slides when launched.	
wazir, grand	(Arabic) the chief minister or administrator of a Muslim ruler, especially of the Sultan of Turkey.  Wazir literally means "bearer of burdens."	
wazzergoo	a made-up word.	
We want you	an allusion to US armed forces recruitment posters which portrayed Uncle Sam (a figure who stands for the government of the United States and for the United States itself) pointing a finger directly at the viewer, saying "I want YOU for the US Army."	
Weems, Commander	Philip Van Horn Weems, author of Simplified Celestial Navigation and Air Navigation.	
Wehrmacht	(German, literally "defense force") the armed forces of Germany, particularly of Nazi Germany.	
Weimar Republic	a common name for the government of Germany between World War I and the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler in 1933; Weimar, Germany, was where its constitution was drawn up. The constitution abolished the several constitutional monarchies that had previously formed the German Empire. The Weimar government was unpopular because of its acceptance of the harsh provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (the treaty that officially ended World War I); the large penalties Germany had to pay caused economic chaos in the country, with German money declining daily in value.	
weirdity	(slang) a state or condition regarded as weird, odd or eccentric.	
Weller	Mr. Weller, the estate carpenter at Saint Hill Manor at the time of the lecture.	
Welles, Orson	(1915-1985) American actor, director and producer.  Produced a radio dramatization in 1938 of English novelist and journalist, H.G. Wells' (1866-1946) The War of the Worlds.  It was done in the form of a news broadcast and caused widespread panic in the United States at the time when people thought that Martians had actually invaded the Earth.	
Wellington	Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1769-1852), the first Duke of Wellington, English soldier and politician. His final victory was at Waterloo in 1815 where he defeated Napoleon.	
well-oiled dream, like a	(colloquial) perfectly. A variation of the phrase like a dream.	
Wells, H.G.	Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), English novelist and journalist. Wells is known for his science fiction, his satirical novels and his popularized accounts of history and science. The first great writer of science fiction, H.G. Wells is author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. He also wrote sociological books in which he criticized existing society and presented his remedies: internationalism, socialism and the advancement and proper use of science. In later works, he proposed government by supermen and a new world religion based on physics. Toward the end of his life, Wells thought that man's scientific advances were totally outdistancing his intellectual and social development, and he expressed this in his last work, Mind at the End of its Tether. Deliberately aiming to achieve greatness as a prophet, journalist and spokesman for progress, rather than as a novelist, Wells was considered to possess one of the most vigorous intellects of his period in England.	
We-Spy-for-You Detective Company	a made-up name for a company.	
West Berlin	at the time of this lecture, the noncommunist side of the city of Berlin, located in East Germany. At the end of World War II (1945) the city of Berlin was divided into a communist section and a noncommunist section just as Germany was similarly divided between East (communist) and West (noncommunist). In 1961 a fortified barrier of concrete and wire was erected between the two sections by communist East Berlin to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West. Armed guards were posted on the wall to stop anyone making such attempts. The wall was finally torn down in 1990 and free passage between the two sections of the city was allowed once again.	
West Coast	the western coast of the United States, bordering on the Pacific Ocean and comprising the coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington.	
West End	from the West Side, the part of Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, which includes several miles of docks along the east Hudson River waterfront.	
West Keokuk	a made-up name for a city and joking reference to Keokuk, a city located on the Mississippi River, in southeast Iowa, in the Midwestern United States. It has a population of about 13,000 people. Used in the lecture to mean a small out-of-the-way town.	
West Point	a military reservation in southeastern New York: site of the US Military Academy.	
Westinghouse	of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, a company organized in 1869 by George Westinghouse (1846-1914), to manufacture his invention—the air brake, which uses compressed air to stop or reduce the speed of a moving vehicle. Originally invented for use on railway trains, the air brake is now often used on automobiles, trucks and buses as well.	
wet pack	(medical) a form of bath given by wrapping a patient in hot or cold wet sheets covered with a blanket, used especially to reduce fever.	
whambo	(slang) an exclamation signalling the suddenness, violence, surprise, etc., of a quick, sharp blow. A variation of the expletive whammo.	
whammoed	smashed with great force. A variation of whammed.	
what cooks	(colloquial) what is happening or planned.	
what on earth	(informal) what of all possible things; whatever.	
what’s kicking	(slang) what is happening.	
whatamagoodjits	(slang) unspecified or unspecifiable objects; something one does not know the name of or does not wish to name. A variation of whatchamacallit.	
whatcha	(informal) what have you.
(informal) what are you.	
whatcha		
whatnot	a minor or unspecified object or article.	
whatnotter	a made‑up word for an item.	
whatters	a made-up word.	
Wheaties	brand name of an American breakfast cereal which calls itself "The Breakfast of Champions" and uses testimonials by American athletes in its advertising.	
Wheatstone bridge	an electrical circuit for measuring the amount of resistance to a flow of electricity.	
wheel of fortune	a wheel-like gambling device that is rotated or spun to determine the winner of certain prizes. In Roman mythology such a device was represented as turning in order to bring about changes or reverses in human affairs.	
wheeze	(slang) an old joke.	
wheezy	(colloquial) old and frequently used. From theater slang, where a wheeze is a comic phrase or saying introduced repeatedly into the performance of a piece.	
where he lives	(slang) at or to the right or vital point.	
where it lives	(slang) at or to the right or vital point.	
Whiffy Tiffy Five	a made-up name of a rock and roll group.	
whipsawing	subjecting to two opposing forces at the same time.	
whirling dervish	a member of any various Moslem orders of ascetics (ones who lead a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion or penance), some of which employ whirling dances and the chanting of religious formulas to produce a collective ecstasy.	
whirly-girg	a made-up word for a whirling motion.	
whiskers	(slang) a pair of thin drumsticks with flat, soft brushes of wires or plastic on the ends. They are used to give the drums a soft, smooth, muted sound..	
whistle, clean as a	(colloquial) completely and entirely clean; without fault or error.	
whistle, slick as a	(slang) very smooth; well done.
(colloquial) completely and entirely clean; without fault or error.	
whistled (something) up	called, summoned, brought or got (something) by or as by whistling.	
whistled up	called, summoned, brought or got by or as by whistling.	
white coats, men in the	mental hospital attendants (from the white coats they wear).	
white cross bun	a bun with a cross of frosting on it; eaten chiefly during Lent (in Christianity, a time of fasting and repentance in the early part of the year).	
white flag	a white banner or cloth held up as a sign that one wants a truce or is willing to surrender.	
White House	a white mansion in Washington, DC which is the official residence of the president of the United States and location of the executive branch of the US government.	
white mutiny	a Condition wherein a person sees fit only to follow orders and takes no responsibility for his post.	
whiz-bang	a firework that jumps around making a whizzing noise and periodic bangs.
(slang) a person who is very quick, adroit or skilled at something; expert.
(colloquial) the shell of a small-caliber, high-velocity German gun, so called from the noise it made.	
whizzabung	a made-up word.	
whizzed up	(slang) made more exciting or lively; enlivened. A variation of jazzed up.	
whizzer	(slang) anything superlative, whether good or bad.	
whizzeroo	a coined word from whiz (a swift movement producing a humming, buzzing or hissing sound) and -eroo (a humorous slang suffix added to nouns).	
whizzits	a made-up word.	
whizzle sticks	a made-up term.	
whizzle-bum	a made-up word.	
whizzles	a made-up term.	
whizzling	moving swiftly in a repeated manner.	
whizzo	a made-up name for a drug.	
whole cloth	(figurative) fully; wholly. Whole cloth is a piece of cloth of the full size as manufactured, as distinguished from a piece that may be cut off or out of it for a garment, etc.	
whole cloth, out of	out of one's imagination.  A Variation of made out of whole cloth, completely imaginary.	
whole cloth, take (something) out of	make (something) up out of one's imagination.  A variation of made out of whole cloth, completely imaginary.	
whumped	struck heavily with a hard blow. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Whumpfburg	a made-up name for a place.	
wibble-wobble	(colloquial) a coined term from wobble, and wibble, a made-up rhyming word.	
Wichelow, George	a Scientologist in England in the mid-1950s.	
Wichita	a city in Kansas which was the location of the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation in 1951 and 1952.	
widow maker	a pneumatic drill of the kind used to tear up pavement. Construction companies call them this because of the mortality rate of workers assigned to them on construction projects.	
wild blue nowhere	a variation of wild blue yonder, the far and trackless distance. Taken from a song of the United States Army Air Corps, "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun."	
wild blue yonder	the far and trackless distance. Taken from a song of the United States Army Air Corps, "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun."	
Williams	a Scientology staff member at the time of the lecture; a former student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course.
the name of a Central Organization staff member in Australia at the time of the lecture.	
Williams, Peter	a staff member from Australia and student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course during the early portion of these lectures.	
Willkie, Wendell	(1892-1944) American politician, lawyer and business executive.  In 1940 he ran for president of the United States and although he lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt, he polled over 22 million votes.  Willkie favored removing controls and changing the tax system to encourage business expansion which was in opposition to President Roosevelt's domestic programs.  He supported the president's foreign policy though, and in 1942 he toured England, the Middle East, the Soviet Union and China as a personal emissary of the president.  He then wrote One World (1943), the story of his trip, which was a powerful argument against isolationism and an appeal for postwar cooperation among nations.  These views caused the Republican party to withdraw support of his renomination in 1944.  Shortly thereafter his health began to fail and he died several months later. 
See also One World in this glossary.	
willow buck	a coined phrase with no particular meaning, used in this lecture to represent the pc's item.	
Wilson	Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), political leader and educator who was elected president in 1912.	
Wilson, Woodrow	(1856-1924) political leader and educator who was elected president in 1912.  He wrote numerous books and papers on history and politics, including A History of the American People, which was published in five volumes in 1902.	
window, going out the	(informal) going out of effect; being abandoned.	
windrows	rows, as of leaves or snow, heaped up by the wind.	
Windsor Castle	the main residence of English sovereigns since William the Conqueror, the king of England from 1066-1087.	
windy	full of talk or verbiage (an excess of words beyond those needed to express concisely what is meant); talkative; long-winded.	
Wing	a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of this lecture.	
wingding	(US slang) a fit or spasm.
(US slang) something extraordinary.	
winged-foot heels	winged sandals. An allusion to Mercury, the god represented as a young man with winged hat and winged sandals. He was the god of science and commerce, the patron of travelers and also of rogues, vagabonds and thieves. Hence, the name of the god is used to denote both a messenger and a thief.	
wing-foot on his heels	winged sandals. An allusion to Mercury, the god represented as a young man with winged hat and winged sandals. He was the god of science and commerce, the patron of travelers and also of rogues, vagabonds and thieves. Hence, the name of the god is used to denote both a messenger and a thief.	
winning card	(figurative) an expedient (a means of achieving something, a means to an end) certain to attain its object.	
Winter, Joe	a doctor and squirrel who was involved in Dianetics in the early 1950s, and was a no‑case‑gain case.	
winterpoof spaf	a made-up term.	
wishing well	a well thought to be capable of conferring the fulfillment of one's wishes by throwing coins into it.	
Wissergoo	a made-up name.	
witch doctor	(in some primitive societies) a man who attempts to cure sickness and to exorcise (expel) evil spirits by the use of magic.	
Witch of Endor	the woman who had "a familiar spirit" (a spirit supposed to serve a particular person) through whom the biblical character Saul sought communication with the dead Samuel. She brought Samuel up "out of the earth" having first secured a promise from Saul that he would take no action against her as a witch.	
Witchdoctorville	a made-up name for a town.	
wits wrapped around (something), get (one's)	understand (something), using (one's) mental faculties or intellectual powers.	
wizirods	a made-up name.	
woggaroo	a made-up name.	
wogged	sick, especially to (one's) stomach.	
wogged up	(slang) sick, especially to (one's) stomach.	
woggy	(slang) sick.	
wog-wog	a made-up word.	
wog-wogs	a made-up word.	
wolf, crying	giving a false alarm. From the fable of the shepherd lad who so often called "Wolf!" merely to make fun of the neighbors that when at last the wolf came no one would believe him.	
wolfs tooth, clean as a	(slang) perfectly clean. A variation of clean as a hound's tooth.	
wolf's tooth, cleaner tBan a	(slang) perfectly clean. A variation of clean as a hound's tooth.	
wolves, throwing (something) to the	allowing (something a person no longer has use for) to be put in a dangerous or difficult situation.	
wood pigeon	a European pigeon having a whitish patch on each side of the neck. Also called ringdove.	
wooden‑Indian	acting like a wooden Indian: a wooden image of an American Indian in a standing position; formerly placed in front of cigar stores as an advertisement.	
wooden‑Indians	acts like a wooden Indian: a wooden image of an American Indian in a standing position; formerly placed in front of cigar stores as an advertisement.	
woodwork, out of the	(colloquial) out of hiding or obscurity.	
woof and the warp	(figurative) the underlying structure upon which something is built; a foundation; base. Literally, the woof is the horizontal thread in a woven fabric, and the warp is the vertical thread. Together they make up the whole of a woven article.	
woof and warp	(figurative) the underlying structure upon which something is built; a foundation; base. Literally, the woof is the horizontal thread in a woven fabric, and the warp is the vertical thread. Together they make up the whole of a woven article.	
woof woofs	a made-up term.	
woofs	a made-up word.	
woogies	a made-up word.	
woogy	a coined term meaning muddled or confused.	
Woolworth	the name of a chain of "five-and-ten-cent" stores (stores that sell a wide variety of inexpensive merchandise) in the United States.	
Woolworth's	the name of a chain of "five-and-ten-cent" stores (stores that sell a wide variety of inexpensive merchandise) in the United States.	
word of mouth	informal oral communication.	
work (something) over	do (something) again or anew; repeat (something).	
workouts	developments; elaborations.	
Works Progress Administration	the former federal agency (1935-1943) charged with instituting and administering public works in order to relieve national unemployment.	
works, give (something) the	subject (something) to rigorous or extreme treatment, either verbally or physically.	
World Health Organization	an agency of the United Nations established in 1948 with the stated purpose of improving the health of the world's people and preventing or controlling communicable diseases.	
World War 1	the war (1914-1918) between the Allies (Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, Italy, Japan, etc.) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc.).	
World War 2	the war (1939-1945) between the Allies (Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the US, etc.) and the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.). The war in the Pacific ended in September 1945, after the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.	
World War I	the war (1914-1918) between the Allies (Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, Italy, Japan, etc.) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc.).	
World War II	the war (1939-1945) between the Allies (Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the US, etc.) and the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.).	
worlds, best of all possible	a reference to the overly optimistic attitude of Dr. Pangloss, the old tutor to the hero in the satire Candide, (subtitled "Optimism") by Voltaire (French philosopher, poet, dramatist and author, 1694-1778). Dr. Pangloss' great point was his incurable and misleading optimism which did him no good and brought him all sorts of misfortune, but to the end he reiterated "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."	
worm gear	a gear with teeth designed to mesh with the thread of a worm (a short, rotating screw).	
Wormwood Scrubs	a prison for first offenders only, in West London.	
wot not	(archaic) know not.	
wots not	(archaic) knows not.	
would it or not it	(literary) wish it or not.	
WRAC	a member of the Women's Royal Army Corps, formed as the women's corps of the British Army in 1949.	
wrap (one's) wits around	understand, using (one's) mental faculties or intellectual powers.	
wrapped (someone) around...	(slang) tangled up or confused (someone). Humorous variation of wrapped (someone) around a telegraph pole, taken from the US West where a tangled‑up man in a confused condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
wrapped around, get (one's) wits	understand, using (one's) mental faculties or intellectual powers.	
Wright, Frank Lloyd	(1869-1959) a famous American architect known for his highly original methods of uniting buildings with their surroundings.  His public buildings include the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (1916), one of the few major buildings to survive the 1923 earthquake, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1949).	
Wright, Harold Bell	(1872-1944) American author of many popular novels dealing mainly with love and adventure in the Southwest.  His books are considered moralistic and sentimental.	
Wrights	Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), American aircraft pioneers.  The brothers had a bicycle-repair shop in Dayton, Ohio when they were attracted to aviation in 1892.  On 17 December 1903, they made what are generally regarded as the first powered, sustained and controlled flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  The first flight lasted for only 12 seconds but on the fourth, the machine traveled 59 seconds.  They formed the Wright Aeroplane Company in 1909.  His name was Young, and he was the second man in the world beyond the Wrights to fly. -Studying: Introduction (18 June 64)	
Wrightus, Harold Bell	a humorous reference to Howard Bell Wright (1872-1944), popular American novelist.  His books and sentimental stories had a moral purpose and were widely read because of their appealing plots and characters.	
Wrigley’s	the brand name for a chewing gum. Named after William Wrigley, Jr. (1863-1932), American industrialist who founded William Wrigley, Jr., & Co. in Chicago, Illinois (1891), manufacturers of chewing gum.	
wuclabugs	a made-up word.	
wuff	a made-up word.	
wuff-wuff	a made-up word.	
wuk-wuks	a made-up word.	
wuk-wuks	a made-up word.	
wumph	a made‑up word.	
Wunderbar	(German) an interjection meaning wonderful.	
Wundt	Wilhelm Wundt (1832‑1920), German psychologist and physiologist (expert in the study of the functions of living things and the ways in which their parts and organs work); the originator of the false doctrine that man is no more than an animal.
See also psychology in this glossary.	
Wundtianism	the doctrine, school or theory of Wilhelm Wundt.	
Wurlitzer	the brand name of an organ made by the Rudolf Wurlitzer Company.	
wusser	humorous pronunciation of worse.	
X9	a made-up name for a continent on a planet.	
X970	a made-up term for a scientific measurement of some kind.	
Xerxes	a made-up name for a planet. Xerzes (519?-465? B.C.) was a king of Persia (486?-465? B.C.).	
ya	(dialect) you.	
Yakbung	a made-up name.	
Yakville	a made‑up name for a place. From yak, idle talk or chatter.	
Yale	a university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third oldest institute of higher learning in the United States.	
Yankee Doodle	a popular American song, dating from the eighteenth century. The early settlers of New York were Dutch and the Dutch name for Johnny is Janke, pronounced "Yankee" and is most likely the origin of the term Yankee. Doodle meant "simpleton" in seventeenth-century English. First sung during the Revolutionary War by the British troops to poke fun at the strange ways of the Americans (Yankees), the song was soon adopted by American troops themselves. Since then, the song has been considered an expression of American patriotism.	
Yankeewitz, Doc	a made-up name of a psychiatrist.	
yappy	(slang) noisily and stupidly talkative.	
yap-yap	noisy and stupid talk; jabber.	
yard, by the	in great numbers; very many at one time.	
yars	humorous pronunciation of years.	
Yashimat	reference to the Yashicamat, a camera made by the Japanese photographic equipment manufacturer, Yashica.	
yattapin	a made-up word.	
Year of the Fox	a humorous reference to the Chinese practice of naming a year after an animal. The years are arranged in major cycles of 60 years with each successive year named after one of 12 animals. These 12-year cycles are continuously repeated.	
yeep	a coined word meaning mouth.	
yellow filter	a transparent yellow sheet of colored glass or gelatin placed in front of or behind the lens of a camera to control the transmission of specific light waves of the color spectrum. It will darken the sky and highlight clouds in black-and-white film.	
yickle-yackle	a coined word denoting talk, especially idle, or empty chatter; mere babble.	
yip	(colloquial) a short, high-pitched cry as from a dog; a shout, an exclamation, a complaint. Used figuratively in this lecture.
a made‑up word.	
yippety-yaps	(slang) a coined term meaning shrill, noisy or foolish talk.	
yipsnoo	a made-up word.	
yip-yap	a coined word from yip and yap, noisy and stupid talk; jabber.	
YMCA	abbreviation for Young Men's Christian Association; a world‑wide organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, physical and social well‑being of young men. It was founded in London in 1844 by George Williams.	
yo	an exclamation to get someone's attention.	
yo'	(southern US dialect) your.	
yo heave, gave (someone or something) the	got rid of (someone or something).  A Variation of give the (old) heave-ho (from the 16th century sailors' cry of heave and ho when hauling).	
yodeldeehoo	call or shout in a fashion similar to yodeling: singing with frequent changes from the ordinary voice to falsetto and back again, in the manner of mountaineers in Switzerland and Tyrol (a mountainous region in west Austria and northern Italy).	
yonder, wild blue	the far and trackless distance. Taken from a song of the United States Army Air Corps, "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun."	
you just pays your money and takes your chance	(colloquial) what will happen is a matter of chance or luck. A variation of the phrase you pays your money and you takes your choice, suggesting that when faced with a choice between two similar possibilities or alternatives, one might just as well rely on luck. The phrase comes from a rhyme used by English traders with market stalls:
"Whatever you please my little dears;
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
You pays your money and what you sees is
A cow or a donkey just as you pleases."	
young’uns	(slang) "young ones" or children.	
yours is not to question why	reference to lines from The Charge of the Light Brigade, a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) that celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry brigade in its doomed assault on much larger forces:
"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."	
youse	(nonstandard) you.	
you-uns	(dialect) you.	
yo-yo	(informal) move up and down or back and forth; fluctuate or vacillate.	
Yuk-zuk	a made-up name for a planet.	
yumpf-de-yumpf	a coined term for an unspecified number.	
Z People	a made-up name for a race of people.	
Zack	a made-up name for a person.	
zag	move in one direction.	
zagged	moved in one direction.	
zagging	moving in one direction.	
Zambezi Falls	waterfalls on the Zambezi River, located between Northern and Southern Rhodesia, South Africa. The river falls abruptly into a vertical fissure 400 feet deep, 1 mile long and 200 feet wide causing high spray-clouds and a terrific roar. Also called Victoria Falls.	
zap gun	(slang) a ray gun or the like.	
Zarathustra	a humorous reference to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900), German philosopher who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra, a philosophical narrative in which the ancient Persian philosopher Zarathustra is used as a mouthpiece for the author's views. The work is written in quasi-biblical style, and develops Nietzsche's doctrine of the superman.
See also Nietzsche in this glossary.	
ze grande	a humorous imitation of the French pronunciation of "the grand."	
Zec	a made-up name.	
Zed	a made-up name for a planet.	
Zen Buddhism	a partieular movement of Buddhism, introduced into China in the 6th century A.D. and into Japan in the 12th century, that emphasizes enlightenment by means of meditation and direct, intuitive insights. Zen Buddhists say that one finds truth in experience, not in thinking about it or listening to someone talk about experience. To understand the meaning of life, one must live, not make up theories about it.	
zerp	a made-up term.	
zig	move in another direction, as opposed to zag.	
Zigged	moved in another direction, as opposed to zagged.
See also zagged in this glossary.	
zigging	moving in another direction, as opposed to zagging.
See also zagging in this glossary.	
zigs and the zags	Different parts; details. A variation of ins and outs.	
Zilch, Mr.	a made-up name.	
Zimbo	a made-up name for a planet.	
zitherproof	a made-up word. A zither is a musical instrument having from thirty to forty strings and played with a plectrum (a thin piece of metal, bone, plastic, etc., used for plucking the strings of a guitar, mandolin, etc.) and the fingers.	
zorch	a made-up name for a body part.	
zoup, in the	(slang) A humorous variation of in the soup: in a difficulty; in trouble.	
Zuck	a made-up name for a person.	
zud	a made-up word.	
Zug	a made-up name for a planet.	
Zugzug, Bill	a made-up name.	
Zulu	a member of a large, formerly warlike, Bantu people of southeastern Africa. Bantu refers to any of a large group of Negroid tribes of equatorial and southern Africa.	
Zulus	a large, formerly warlike, Bantu people of southeastern Africa.