Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SEND IMMEDIATELY UNIFORM FOR MEDIUM SIZED GENERAL, then answered bewildered requests for definite particulars and measurements: FOLLOW FIRST INSTRUCTIONS I WANT A TAILOR NOT A CARPENTER...
...such an institution is necessary in a complete university is growing more and more apparent. With the drama becoming of increasing importance as an intelligent means of expression. Harvard can not afford to continue in its attitude of haughty indifference to the value of the theatre as a cultural medium. Although at the present the proposed school can not be a part of the University, the identification of its supporters indicates that among the alumni there is a wide spread desire to perpetuate Harvard's dramatic prestige...
...Bukharin is a vine that must always cling somewhere, must be always upheld and maintained by someone sturdier than himself. . . . After Lenin's death, Bukharin became Stalin's medium. . . . I hear from friends that he is passing through a new crisis now, and that new fluids, unknown to me, are penetrating him." The "fluids" were diagnosed as those of a "Right Heresy" in Moscow last week by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. It appeared that Comrade Bukharin had dared to say that some of Dictator Stalin's policies are too radical much as Comrade Trotsky dared...
Artist Robinson first concerned himself with medium-what to paint with, what on. He decided on canvas because he could then work anywhere and the murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what...
Stirred as Russians easily are by music, the docile audience sang revolutionary songs with gusto for a half-hour, broke off in confusion when suddenly the President's Committee on the stage began to clap. Sharp-eyed, they had seen a swarthy man of medium build enter the once Imperial Box and sink into a back seat where he sat composedly stroking his long, dark moustache. "STALIN!" shouted someone and Comrade jostled Comrade as the audience roared frenzied cheers, then burst spontaneously into the Red anthem, The Internationale. Delirious minutes passed before STALIN would step to the front...