Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to his mathematics the probability that chance might account for one subject's score alone is one in 100 quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that she scored well but not better than his best subjects, who were ordinary students (TIME...
...rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
...those within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...tragedy cannot adequately be described by such comic-strip adverbs as whop! crack! and smash! TIME'S customary understatement was missing. We are not only asked to visualize three distinct divisions of what must have been a confusing accident, but we are expected to do so through the medium of a whop! etc. when the writer has already said there were "three rending crashes." Does he mean that a whop! is a particular type of crash...
...Picture Daily) loudly proclaimed that anyone who took cinema seriously was simply being sham & vexatious. "It is the industry's judgment and mine," sparred Publisher Quigley, "that the entertainment film belongs in the province of entertainment and nowhere else. If there are others who wish to use this medium for a message which they imagine the world is yearning to hear, the obvious course for them is to get a camera and go to work." Bouncing out of the opposite corner. Prof. Fred Eastman, of Chicago's Theological Seminary, countered with a straight right to the heart. "Whether...