Word: medias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from occupational diseases of . . . [the ear] than from all other occupational diseases combined." Conditions of flight damaging the ear: 1) "changes of atmospheric pressure during ascent and descent"; 2) harsh, monotonous propeller and exhaust noises, which airplane manufacturers are unable to muffle. A common aeronautical affliction is "aero-otitis media." This is a "chronic inflammation of the middle ear caused by a pressure difference between the air in the [ear] cavity and that of the surrounding atmosphere. It ... occurs during changes of altitude," starts as a "hissing, roaring, crackling, or snapping," soon leads to warm pain and vertigo, often deafness...
...desire for an attack on these school problems. At the present time there are two ways in which Harvard can approach the secondary school, one through the Dean's office and one through the School of Education. The present committee is a combination of the two, and through these media it can indirectly affect pre-college training...
...devoted to paintings on paper. Visitors to the Institute's 17th International Water Color Exhibition last week found it notable for several reasons, one of which was that about half the 541 paintings shown were pure-blooded water colors. The rest of the paper paintings were in media as diverse and colorful as the crowds outside on Michigan Avenue...
...context, a statement such as the following sounds rather optimistic: "Democracies sift the opinions and beliefs of all with the end in view of determining the state program by selecting the one most nearly correct or by correlating the less variant attitudes." Nevertheless, as a survey of the different media of Fascist propaganda Mr. Porter's paper is of considerable merit...
...name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations she and her colleagues find themselves in are not infrequently, not invariably funny...