Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wickens family furnishes the medium of delivery. There is the Father, Sir Thomas, self-made, a figure in the stock-market, and knighted for his services to the government in backing up the front. Lady Wikens rather flounders through the chapters, endeavoring to find out what it's all about. She does and she doesn't. The three children are Dick, Tom, Madge. Reading from left to right they are a D. S. O., a "conchy,' and a V. A. D., a fairly representative crib of the sort of thing one could or could not do back...
...Bennett's medium is not the X-ray, which penetrates its subject and discoveds unguessed-at causes, nor is it the telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders...
...Union tenins tournament this fall will be divided into two classes, for outstanding and medium singles players. This plan, successfully put into effect last year, increased considerably the number of entrants. In addition to the two singles competitions, there will be a doubles tournament. Silver cups will be awarded to the winners in the three classes...
...cracked open several hatching eggs (64 to 72 hours incubation*) and scooped out the eyes of the unborn chicks. These eyes they placed in a glass dish which contained blood plasma and extract of embryonic fowl tissue, a viscid fluid. The tiny eyes dreamily bobbed about in this sticky medium, grew in "a surprisingly normal way," gave the horrible semblance of blinking at the experimenters who watched them last week...
...world-wide knockabout himself, to resurrect this California Midas whom our swarming old-Americana hunters have overlooked. Perhaps Sutter was put from memory for conscience's sake, but now he is back, a mighty, marvelous, golden ghost. Author Cendrars's rushing historical present is a handsome medium for the sweep of such fortunes and fates. If he has anywhere exaggerated, which seems inevitable, who cares...