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 Macduff." 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.	
made it	(colloquial) succeeded.	
made, got it	(informal) become assured of success.	
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.	
Maine‑iac	a person from Maine; a play on the word maniac.	
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.	
make‑or‑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 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.	
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 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.	
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.	
mashie	(golf) a club with an iron head, also called a number five iron.
See also iron in this glossary.	
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 proficiency.	
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.	
matty	a made‑up name for a condition or state.	
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 internationally-known 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.	
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 some lectures.	
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 Carthago, 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. Carthago 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.	
Metchnikoff	the Metchnikoff (1845‑1916), Russian zoologist and bacteriologist. He discovered the basis for the theory of immunity‑the ability of the white corpuscles in the blood to fight disease by destroying bacteria.	
methinks	(archaic) it seems to me.	
methyltestosterone	a synthetic male sex hormone used especially in the treatment of glandular deficiency, breast cancer and disorders of the uterus.	
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 some lectures.	
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	
monk‑up	(slang) a variation of mess‑up, become disarranged or muddled.	
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 "self-centered." 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 "self-centeredly." 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.	
Mother Nature	nature personified as the mother of all things except those made by man; nature.	
motordrome	a rounded course or track, often rising at an angle or in a curve toward its outer edge, upon which automobile and motorcycle races are run.	
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.	
muttonheadedly	(slang) stupidly.	
muy estupido	Spanish for "very stupid."	
muzhik	(Russian) a peasant. Used humorously in this lecture.	
muzziness	a made‑up word for a condition or state.	
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.)