Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast and one in Norway. Attacking force, according to the British: 50 planes; according to an excited...
...modern war there are four main fronts-military, diplomatic, economic, propagandist. To get a line on the patter and pattern of propaganda from its talkiest medium, CBS has had a staff of reporter-linguists listening day & night to Europe's radio since the first days of World War II. Main idea has been to enable CBS's home commentators to sort news from propaganda for radio listeners. But the by-product has been an increasing sheaf of notes, observations, comparisons, verbatim broadcasts which, by themselves, constitute a fairly complete documentation of the technique of war propaganda, as practiced...
...Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet, his audience for being good listeners, poetry for being beneficent magic, and the world for being a wonderful world...
...anyone having even a vague knowledge of Epstein's work to deny his excellence as a sculptor. Such creations as DAY and NIGHT, GENESIS and ORIOL, ROSS show a new and invigorating vision completely free from academic stodginess. In many respects Epstein occupies the same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others...
...foreign broadcasts. Last week the British were planning a program that they hoped Germans would listen to in spite of prohibitions: Names of Nazi prisoners and dead and wounded identified by the Allies will be rushed to London from the front, broadcast to Germany on BBC's daily medium-wave news periods in German...