Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first speaker for the affirmative, H. G. Rowell, said that modern education was a curse because it was carried on chiefly through the medium of the tabloid newspaper. These newspapers have taken over all the branches of education according to Rowell, who went on to say, "They educate us in psychology; ethics, especially those of the eternal triangle; science--I read in a tabloid paper the other day that a man is going to live 5,000 years on peanuts and rhubarb; philosophy--see all the new expressions they have given us; and politics. Education as taught by Socrares...
...contribution to the already seething cauldron of European politics, one even more ominous than the decline of the franc, is the news that a Fascist movement is underway in Germany. Taking advantage of the anti-administration reaction to the Genevan disappointment, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, through the influential medium of the Telegraph Union, a news syndicate which he controls, is about to launch a nation-wide campaign to promote the establishment of a dictatorship, Meanwhile he hopes to win over the various anti-republican factions to his standard, thus forming a powerful organization corresponding to the black shirted myrmidons of Mussolini...
...more energetic members of the class, the instructor might well permit that freedom which characterizes the restricted composition courses. Thus without introducing a haven for the somnambulant, it seems possible to establish a universal opportunity for practice in writing, the principal medium for developing facility of expression...
...into a story which in its day was one of the most popular of musical comedies. It is about a little girl who grew bored with poverty and Philadelphia, came to New York, and finally married a millionaire. Miss Moore is, as ever, keenly attractive, and the picture is medium good entertainment...
Such opinions were quite beside the point, which was that a master stroke of testimonial advertising had been achieved?testimony by one of the immediate family of the medium's publisher. It quite outshone other current testimonials, outshone even the portraits of Paderewski and Hoffman in Steinway's dignified, colorful series; outshone Vladimir de Pachmann's long letter?"Through you I live forever!"?to the AutoPneumatic Action Co. (Welte-Mignon pianos); even Countess Starzynska's pearl-festooned pose in a Patou gown; even the fact that Rigaud perfume was used to scent the house at Consuelo Vanderbilt's wedding...