Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest navy in the world, it is only recently that he has decided that this is not enough. For there is much more air in the atmosphere than there is water in the ocean, and at present it seems as though air furnished as convenient and safe a medium of transit as water...
...There are several features", Mr. Harding said, "concerning a Reserve Bank branch in Cuba which grow out of the intimate connection between Cuba and the United States. It is, in the first place, the only foreign country in which all transactions are carried on in dollars, and whose circulating medium and legal tender are entirely American currency. Moreover, the government of the United States exercises a quasi-guardianship over the island which makes it entirely different from any other available banking field...
...story is luridly unimportant. The acting, by Anna Q. Nilsson and Milton Sills, is capable. The salt, seafaring atmosphere created by particularly excellent photography places the picture easily in the first ten of the year's releases. The Girl I Loved. Charles Ray has returned. His current medium is a play adapted (freely, after the manner of moviewrights) from a poem of James Whitcomb Riley...
...common fallacy of the classroom that a lesson can be learned by a comprehensive knowledge of its salient features, without regard to the medium used for its expression. The movement of educational opinion away from former methods of studying by rote has helped to foster this abstract and general process of assimilation. In theory, the movement has been a good one since it was hitherto possible to parrot the word of the text with no knowledge of the lesson itself. But there are also distinct disadvantages which have led to a more careless interpretation of the subject matter involved...
...Connecticut last year and was studying philosophy in the University as a holder of the Henry A. Terry Fellowship. He is five feet ten inches in height and weighs 140 pounds. He is believed to be wearing blue serge trousers, khaki shirt, and white tennis shoes. His hair is medium brown and is parted in the middle...