Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blizzard, however, benefited some dozen students who earned some money shovelling snow. Cambridge residents, through the medium of the Student Employment Office, engaged men of the University to clear the pavement about their homes. The number of men given work of this nature by the Employment Office was limited, in order that each student might receive a worthwhile...
...first of these honors theses, Miss Croman studies the evolution of the novelist Galsworthy "through the interpretative medium of mood and mental attitude." The three chief figures in "The Man of Property" she takes as symbols of certain prime, moving ideas: "The Will to Property," "Beauty, impinging on a possessive world," and "the eternal force of Passion." The tragic clash of these three, in its grimness and covert intensity, is compared to Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser...
...while living in small towns in Ohio and Indiana where he became acquainted with glass-blowers and learned of the gaudy boom days in that region, days which belonged to the generation just previous. His particular quality is an ability to secure and hold a dramatic movement through the medium of his delightfully informal style and this together with the fineness of the use of dialogue, makes of his characters living people. He extracts the essentials of episodes and scenes, and delicacy, charm, brutality and courseness come alike in the pictures written out by the author. This...
...spite of its crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh creep. At the other extreme from eulogy, it contains about as little of the blood of human likeness. Author Winkler's unretouched journalese is no more sensitive a medium than newsprint, but today's banker-conscious readers may consider the style and the subject well matched. A protracted Sunday-supplement feature story. The First Billion casts the late James Stillman for the No. 1 role, with his son. James, his daughter-in-law, "Fin." Frank Vanderlip and Charles...
Graham introduced a supercharger with its de luxe eights-first medium-priced model so equipped. Effecting economy at high speeds, the supercharger raises the point of fastest acceleration from around 25 m.p.h. to 45 m.p.h...