Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is now no question about man's use of the air as a medium of transportation and communication. The events of the year have awakened public interest to the convenience, safety and advantage of travel through the air. For years the best engineering brains of all countries have been directed to improving the machine, in designs of plane and efficiency of engines. Would that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance...
...environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done so in all past ages; but we also walk and live in the air, and are now beginning to utilize our power to spring from earth and traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent. "The air's the thing and before long men who have not had instruction in aerography, will feel that their college training was deficient; and such limitation of their knowledge will prove a handicap. There is rare opportunity for some friend of Harvard to found a Chair of Aerography...
There comes to every man during his life a few occasions when words, the medium of expression, are altogether inadequate to convey the deep feelings of his heart. I am now experiencing one of these occasions. Nothing has ever surprised me more or touched me deeper than the receipt of the lovely set of Shakespeare sent me by the boys of your Shakespeare Class. . . . Therefore, Billy, I wish you would read this to the boys or post it on a bulletin board that they may see by my words, though insufficient, how appreciative I am of their generous thought...
...shame for TIME'S letter department to be used as a medium by TIME readers for slamming previous letter writers. Letters of criticism and appreciation are of great value, but when they are written just to give digs at some other reader who has written to TIME, it really does not help anybody one way or another and seems a rather childish attitude. This may sound as if the pot were calling the kettle black, but I assure you that the pot does not feel as black as the kettle looks...
...short chapters devoted to each man are half essay, half straightforward biographical sketch. The effect is to paint clear pictures of the candidates in the medium of their political careers, intimating the fitness of each for the office which they missed, and analyzing carefully the forces which settled the fate the each in the race...