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S.P.R.

abbreviation

  1. Society for Psychical Research.



SPR

abbreviation

  1. Society for Psychical Research

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“A release of S.P.R. volumes, which are mostly held in crude oil and not oil products like gasoline, would offer a reprieve to gasoline prices, but the impact would likely be mild and short-lived,” said Louise Dickson, senior oil markets analyst at Rystad Energy, a consultancy.

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I found the memo, on Shelton Hospital letterhead, last December, along with some letters from Barker, in a brown envelope in the S.P.R. archive, which is kept in the Cambridge University Library.

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“I am not ‘sold’ on E.S.P., but I have always maintained that a purely physical view is far too restricted,” he wrote, in a letter to Guy Lambert, a former president of the S.P.R.

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In a paper for the S.P.R.’s journal, he wrote that, even if people had experienced a plausible prophecy of what happened in Aberfan, there had been no way to report a warning, let alone for it to be believed: “Firstly because their premonitions would probably have been insufficiently clear, and secondly because no means existed for them to communicate them to the proper authorities.”

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“There are credible arguments that the optimal size of the S.P.R. should be smaller than it is,” Mr. Bordoff said.

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