Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CASANOVA?Since his memoirs are banned by the book censors the great philanderer must, perforce, make his bow to America across the footlights. Lowell Sherman is his living medium; Katharine Cornell, his vision of delight...
...suggests further the revising of this rule to make it accord with the law of the game so that a coach, through the medium of substitutes sent into the game, may direct his team during the conflict...
...must have been a relief to the judges, however, to find a medium with such gentle methods. No tipping over of tables, no twanging of banjoes by inexpert toes, no roaring of megaphones, no clatter of ghostly hammers and malles Mrs. Stewart only played a quiet game of cards. But those who were encouraged to hear of William James' interest, must have had their soaring hopes dampened. Since even James did not really speak, what chance is there of hearing from Professor Royce and Professor Agassiz, or perhaps John Harvard himself from a possible bench in an aerial Mermaid Tavern...
...will be set up in a field at least a quarter of a mile square, to make possible more accurate results. The experiments have to do with rays of light thrown through the large tube. Light is believed to consist of ether waves. When a body moves through a medium which is itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing river), the speed of the moving body depends on whether it goes with, or against, or across the current. If the medium is still, it moves past the moving body at a measurable speed. Thus, if ether...
...Manchester, often gave independent expression to advanced views on social question. The considered appeal to the more cultured community in London now rests mainly with The Times, the Westminster Gazette, and the Morning Post, while the Daily Telegraph, with its immense and unbroken advertising connection, stands for the medium of commercial opinion, Philistine in type, but in the main reasonable and open-minded...