Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposing to publish a specialized journal to be known as "The Review of Economic Studies" which shall have as its primary object the encouragement and coordination of work done by research students in all English speaking countries. The need for such a medium of expression has, I believe, long been apparent. It is often true that students who have not acquired sufficient reputation to warrant their sending articles to the existing professional journals simply do not bother to write down their ideas. It is also true that ideas can often only be ordered and clarified by being written down carefully...
...spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height, grey-haired Admiral Standley is regarded as "swell" by the elevator boy and telephone operator of his Long Beach, Calif, apartment house. His son & namesake is in charge of the torpedo school at the San Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval...
Hell Below (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of moods in this picture -engine room realism and chivalric romance-could not be a happy one in any medium. It could scarcely be attempted in anything but cinema, which can be immensely graphic and must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell Below concerns a young submarine lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) who falls in love with a woman (Madge Evans) whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes...
...CRIMSON carries its stultifying adolescent humor to the point of simple bad taste when it attempts to deride (in what it perhaps considers subtle fashion) the activities of an organization which obviously is attempting to provide a medium for the expression of liberal student opinion on important questions of public policy...
...mind-reading the cinema has found a fine new target with gaudy trimmings. The hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...