Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Printed discussion lacks efficiency in consideration of national problems," pointed out the Supreme Court member, "and a conference of this kind offers a true medium between academic knowledge and the actual workings of government and business. When you are dealing with a subject or current discussion and strategy, the subject is most clearly understood by association with those personalities who are framing the situation and centre the real background, rather than a mere reference to a myriad of cut-and-dried facts...
...head a rejuvenated Fierce-Arrow Motor Corp. Basis for this talk, which Jim Farley never denied, was a Fierce-Arrow reorganization plan proposed last August and approved by stockholders in September, under which the company would raise $10,700,000 through sale of new stock and enter the medium-priced automotive field under the guidance of "a person of national importance." Last week it looked as though Jim Farley had been saved for the Cabinet, for Fierce-Arrow trustees and creditors sadly obtained from a Buffalo court an order for the company to show cause why it should...
Electromagnetic waves were supposed to be transported through space in a jelly-like medium called the ether. But the difficulty of constructing a coherent mathematical picture of the ether proved insuperable. Furthermore, the famed Michelson-Morley experiment showed fairly conclusively that the ether did not exist...
...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...
...amount registered actually sold. In 163 cases no securities were sold at all. It seemed apparent to Mr. Vass that small business was not getting the credit it wanted and "the well-being of our economy cannot be divorced from the well-being and prosperity of these small and medium-sized corporations...