Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of shopkeepers in recent years has increased the use of money, instead of rice, as a medium of exchange. More moneyed farmers may now hire labor instead of exchanging it. In this rural microcosm of Japan, Embree distinguishes six classes: upper upper, lower upper, upper middle, lower middle, upper lower, lower lower. Some 27% of households have at least one servant, 26% include someone educated beyond the village school, 12% subscribe to newspapers. Suye Mura has one motorcycle, no automobiles, 160 bicycles, four sewing machines, five radios, 20 phonographs, and one telephone (in the village office...
...Roaring Twenties" is a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade and down into the gloom and common sense of the thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney...
...occurred to many sports-lovers that the policies now followed by Finland are exactly what might be expected from the nation known to them through the medium of the playing field. Aside from political, racial, and economic factors explaining the so-called natural Finish antipathy for Russia, persons familiar with Finland's national "personality" declare that her stubborn refusal to accede to Russian demands is entirely in accord with Finnish attitudes in athletics...
...since Herr Hitler alone decided policy) . . . but because, if Herr Hitler appeared to hesitate, the extremists of the Party at once proceeded to fabricate situations calculated to drive Herr Hitler into courses which even he at times shrank from risking. The simplest method of doing this was through the medium of a controlled press...
...ample budget to splurge on sets and costumes, with two fine leads and a capable supporting cast, Director James Whale has cooked up a rip-snortin' film paced and climaxed with plenty of gusto. Here's another case history to show that when moviedom is in command of its medium the result is grand entertainment...