S.P.R.
abbreviation
Society for Psychical Research.
S.P.R.
Americanabbreviation
SPR
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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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.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
“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.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
“There are credible arguments that the optimal size of the S.P.R. should be smaller than it is,” Mr. Bordoff said.
From New York Times • May 23, 2017
“It didn’t appear to me that the president believes using S.P.R. would have any meaningful effect on gas prices,” Mr. Boehner said.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2012
Mrs. Piper, Home and Stainton Moses are the mediums with whom the case of the S.P.R. really stands or falls.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn
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