Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Universal's, had been smuggled across the Channel to London, were being shown throughout the British Isles. So impressive were they that New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. found meat for a glowing front-page two-column story on the work of a rival news medium...
Perhaps because he wrote his book hurriedly and under high pressure, Author Wallace's example of money as a medium of exchange adds to the mystery of an already mysterious subject: "When properly working, it can be used satisfactorily to transfer labor of an American farmer in the year 1910 to a European laboring man in the year 1914, and vice versa...
Beccali and his teammate, Umberto Cerati, 3000-meter start, were the head-line members of the Italian track team that began practice in the Stadium yesterday in preparation for Friday's international meet. Having the two at a disadvantage, the reporters were pumping them via the medium of Peter M. Riccio, a Columbia professor, acting as interpreter. The questions varied from a request to have Beccali name the greatest runner he had ever seen to a demand for Cerati's opinion of Joe McCluskey, the Fordham star, who is Cerati's strongest rival...
...ever in recent years, and it is the first occasion that the present generation has been given a chance to say its word. Ideas of all types and of exceedingly diverse views are being born in the mind of the undergraduate of today, yet he is usually without a medium of putting them before his colleagues. Here is a chance for the younger men in the college to express. There feelings upon the state of the nation, here is to be an in watching the views as they are thrashed out with the pen. If for nothing else, this...
...according to their comparative rarity and difficulty in handling. Mice cost $10 a hundred, alligators vary according to size from $2.50 to $4, and the supply companies do not carry a stock of alligators exceeding four feet in length. The gila monsters are priced at $15 each while a medium-sized chimpanzee costs between $500 and $600 depending on how "civilized" the animal may be. Monkeys range from four to seven dollars. Hens, ducks, etc. are all bought at regular market prices by the pound. Pigeons and turtles both range from a quarter to eighty-five cents and a Louisiana...