Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters were absolutely bent, baffled, and bewildered. They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...
...letters in your magazine on April 9 and 23 suggesting that President Coolidge take a flight with Colonel Lindbergh. The writers of those letters were lacking in dignity. TIME also showed itself lacking in dignity to print them. You have no business to use your magazine as a medium for making personal suggestions to the President of the United States. I have no doubt that Colonel Lindbergh would be a safe pilot for any man, great or small; but that is no reason why President Coolidge should have his life made more difficult with continual nagging...
...strifes and the animosities and the high currents on feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from such a history. In science, where an exact process is performed before the camera, such a course is reasonable and commendable. Equally, when in the field of art, a picture must be reproduced to show...
...position and composition, then, the university is qualified and bound to act as the medium of perpetuation of the union of knowledge and imagination. The legacy of the university, the proof of a duty fulfilled, is the men it contributes to every field of human action. As long as universities can translate into human terms their welding of fact and fancy they will justify themselves. Loss of the human equation means failure...
...Santa Rosa, Calif., was born a man who has been called a liar more often than any living U. S. inhabitant. His name is Robert L. ("Rip") Ripley. His peculiar ability is to say things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make...