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Word: mediums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probable that this generation will ever see Harvard in need of it. It is conceivable that, attacked by a hostile legislature or beleagured by a hostile press, the University may have to appeal someday to the good sense of the public. Radio advertising will be the proper medium, and directed by professionals it will not fail to have a profound effect. Until that day comes, amateur publicists should refrain from further imposing Harvard's well-known superiority on an already resentful public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEDGE IN THE ETHER | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...words of its President, the Student Council is "a medium for bringing before the governing bodies of the University expressions of undergraduate opinion." Because in certain directions the Council has recently shown a tendency to procrastinate, undergraduate opinion has been forced to find other channels of expression--to wit: a printed broadside about non-House men. The very existence of this brochure is in itself a criticism of the Council, an indication that it does not completely fulfill its supposed function. Yet this apparent failure is more the fault of the Constitution which governs the Council than of the individuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...wide interests, McDougall is chiefly famous for his search for evidence on the afterlife. While at Harvard he was a member of the scientific American committee that investigated the Boston medium, "Margery"; which, after nearly a year of investigation, gave the verdict that "Margery" had failed to produce any evidence of "supernormal phenomena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

This is no plea for bigger-time football. But there can be a balance between the football of Pittsburgh and Notre Dame and the football of the dime admission, which Mr. Hutchins advocates. It is just this happy medium at which Harvard is attempting to arrive through having on the one hand a decent amateur football team and on the other an endowment plan. This endowment plan will in the future mean that Harvard's athletic program will not depend solely on up and down football gate receipts. The plan is an infant now, but an infant with giant possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. HUTCHINS AGAIN | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

Oldsmobile has three series: a new six-cylinder Sixty in the medium price field at $889 and its Seventy six and Eighty eight, lower-priced than last year at $952 and $1,043. Retained is the straight-line streamline; stressed is "rhythmic ride," result of new coil springing at the four frame corners; standard is a handishift like Buick's; optional, the automatic transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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