Word: media
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silva, of the Harvard Bureau of Street Traffic Research, has developed experiments for testing driving ability which have been the subject of far-flung comment. The Associated Press, March of Time, news reels, and other publicity media have featured this important work, and Mr. Goodwin of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has volunteered to provide space for Dr. de Silva's apparatus. Persons who have been deprived of their operator's licenses and others interested are to be tested on machines which register the speed of their reactions, their excitability, power to steer a straight course, and various other...
...belonged to other parties or belonged to no party at all, Andrew Jackson was compelled to fight every inch for the ideals and policies of the democratic republic in which he believed. An overwhelming proportion of the material power of the country was arrayed against him. The great media for the dissemination of information and the molding of public opinion fought him. Haughty and sterile intellectualism opposed him. Musty reaction disapproved him. Hollow and outworn traditionalism shook a trembling finger at him. It seemed that sometimes all were against him-all but the people of the United States...
...public of the limits beyond which painting cannot pass: canvas and pigment, for example. Such a reminder is helpful also for the amateur, who will find much to hold his interest even in the first part of Mr. Laurie's book, which deals with the kind of pigments and media accessible to the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, and to the Middle Ages and ourselves. There is a chapter on fresco painting--just now, with the astonishing revival of that genre, Mr. Laurie's remarks, like the late Gardner Hale's brochure, ought to be useful to earnest Americans, eager...
There are three excuses only for periodical publication: the presentation of literature in artistic form, the exposal and attack of reprehensible conditions otherwise unattackable, and the presentation of a necessary news service. These petty publications fall into none of these categories. They exist only as the media for advertising copy, and their only purpose is to enlarge the emoluments of the publishers. They neither amuse nor instruct. On the other hand their mere existence is a detrimental influence...
...small change compared to the $163,000,000 spent by national advertisers on all newspaper advertising. But since most of it was diverted from other media (not simply from other parts of newspapers) it was nearly clear gain. And it started funny papers toward the point where, some day, they may earn their own keep-instead of being merely expensive circulation-jerkers...