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Word: medium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transcribe the conversation exactly as Craig's illegible hand wrote it, the document that has come to be universally ignored in spiritualistic circles as "the Craig at Eve Papers." For Craig had found what we are all searching for--the happy medium...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...thus assist in strengthening the emphasis on Chinese culture which is one of the beneficial consequences of the recent nationalistic awakening among Chinese students. The work at Harvard will consist of courses in the Chinese language and literature, as well as in various aspects of Sinology studied through the medium of English or other European languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWLY FORMED HARVARD INSTITUTE AT YENCHING | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

...Enemy. Two years ago in Manhattan, Playwright Charming Pollock offered theatre-goers a play whose purpose was to prove the too-often demonstrated assertion that War is Hell. Transposed now to the more extensive medium of the cinema, The Enemy monotonously but accurately hammers the nail of that assertion into the stout oak of the public intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...both tasks of a sufficiently loft and difficult nature. To the somewhat cynical observer, well acquainted with students and student inclinations, the chance of concrete achievement in either of these directions has seemed slight. The moulding of student thought and the furtherance of good feeling between nations through the medium of student opinion are endeavors of a vague and elusive nature; the instruments at the disposal of the Federation for the accomplishment of its ends, conventions and student councils, are far from sure or even well established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPTIMISM IN FEDERATION RANKS | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave the theatre, light their cheap cigarets with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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