Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the American Museum of Natural History's President Frederick Trubee Davison, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air, was preparing to sail for a four-month African hunting trip with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson. Commissioned by his curators to bring back, among other specimens, four medium-sized young elephant bulls or cows, he said: "I haven't the slightest desire to shoot an elephant. ... I hate to think of killing one of those magnificent animals...
...impossibility of placing all the Class of 1936 in the House has been made inevitable, it was learned at University Hall, by the extensive over-application for low and medium-priced rooms and the refusal of students to pay the higher prices. An actual shortage of space would have occurred, however, even if prices had been reduced, due to the unusually large number of men admitted to the Class of 1936. Anticipating that many of the incoming class would be forced to leave college due to current financial difficulties, the Committee on Admissions accepted an extra number of applications last...
...Eliot, in 'Axel's Castle." Edmund Wilson indicates that much of Mr. Eliot's technique, and also his preoccupation with the problem of poetic drama, can be explained by the fact that Mr. Eliot himself is essentially a dramatic poet a dramatist forced by the lack of a suitable medium and by the complexity of his themes, to telescope dialogue and action into a quasi-narrative form. This observation goes for to explain, in Crane's case, the obscurity of his long poem, "The Bridge," and most of his lyrics, though it is not the whole truth. To an extraordinary...
Light Artillery and Heavy Artillery are two categories that keep the august delegates at Geneva awake nights. The Canadian Army boasts still another subdivision: Medium Artillery. In St. John, N. B. last week a brigade of Medium Artillery was out in the bright May sunshine banging away a 21-gun feu de joie in honor of a great occasion: St. John's 150th Loyalist...
...honor the Loyalists last week came Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, himself a descendant of the refugees of 1783, and the Lieut.-Governor of the Province. Besides the third New Brunswick Medium Brigade, oldest artillery organization in the British Dominions, the New Brunswick Dragoons paraded in their new scarlet tunics followed by white-capped bluejackets from the Canadian destroyers Saguenay and Champlain...