Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legs. Thus he caused the currents to traverse the animals' hearts. He had no need to experiment with human beings after he learned that an average-sized pig matches a fat little man in body weight and heart weight; an average sheep matches heart and body of a medium-sized woman. Having discovered those facts, Mr. Ferris learned that a couple of French physiologists in 1899 had found that a strong electric shock will stop fibrillation and restart the heart on its regular beat. After verifying this, Mr. Ferris determined that "to be successful, a counter-shock must...
...will make air history. For it marks the first hesitant step of a process that air-minded men dream of--the establishment of a regular transatlantic airline. The great dirigible should not be greeted as just one more example of the insolence of an overweening nation, but as the medium through which progress takes another step forward...
...Islande" is a conscientious rendition of Pierre Loti's moving tragedy, but somewhat of a disappointment for those whose expectations were proportioned to the magnitude of the classic original. In part, at least, the inferiority is the result of a foolish shift of emphasis, naturally invited by the new medium, from the great, basic ideas of the drama to the incidental episodes...
...author has thus reached a happy medium in his treatment of conductors, and it is to be regretted that his discussion of the composition of an orchestra was not carried out on such a satisfactory basis. The analysis of the modern orchestra is rather inadequate in itself, but the real weakness lies in the complete omission of any reference to the history of the present-day orchestra, a topic which is certainly most fitting for a volume such as this in which the great conductors of the past and present are so well described...
...essence of Riskin-Capra magic to defy analysis on paper because it fits so perfectly its proper medium, the screen. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town it is applied most spectacularly to a courtroom scene in which Longfellow simultaneously proves his sanity and regains the faith in the girl he loves (Jean Arthur) which he had lost on learning that she was the reporter who made him the city's laughing stock. The scene is consequently the funniest as well as one of the most spiritually nourishing cinema climaxes of the current season...