Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excited Saxons massed inside and outside the supreme courthouse. Many were women?for thrifty German housewives particularly dislike paying reparations, have swallowed eagerly the brash Fascist promises to repudiate the Young Plan. As Herr Hitler's motorcar swirled up the women pelted him with flowers. As this medium sized man with a small blond mustache but hard, blue, twinkling eyes stepped out, soprano voices cried "Ach, der schöne Adolf!" (Ah, handsome Adolf!). But so vast, dim, labyrinthine is the supreme courthouse that Witness Hitler, studiously quiet at first, stepped into the chamber and was actually on the stand before...
Truck Advts. Railway Express Agency added to its non-operating income, created a new advertising medium. For the first time, space on express trucks was sold to advertisers. On one side of all the company's 8,000-odd vehicles was slapped an advertisement for Wrigley's gum; on the other, for Chesterfield cigarets. Each space costs $3 per week. The advertising is being directed by Barron Collier, president of Barron G. Collier, Inc. This company has rights to almost all transportation media in the U. S., Mexico, Cuba, Canada. It places advertising in 85,000 cars with...
...schools, Barnard, Union Theological) in the U. S. They are, moreover, professors and friends of professors, thou- sands of educated people who live nearby and have jobs of more or less importance "down town." And, besides these, just people-one or two hundred thousand who live in tall medium-priced apartment houses within walking distance. Altogether it has been an "unchurched" community. The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine rises nearby and there is also a Fundamentalist Presbyterian church but otherwise there is little choice for Protestants. Dr. Fosdick proposes to give this educated community a place of greatest...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
...from Pennsylvania and Wales, reported Dr. Charles Bernard Lipman, professor of plant physiology and dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California. Some bacteria were egg-shaped, others elongated and brilliantly colored. To see if they were still alive, Dr. Lipman put them in a proper breeding medium, found that in a few hours they had reproduced by the million. If additional research proves that the organisms were present when the coal was formed in a prehistoric swamp, they will be direct, minute evidences of the antiquity and nature of Life...