Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cardenas' political forte is silence. A medium-sized man with a neat mustache, he avoids spotlights. He has an Indian's natural physical assurance but never joins in Army sports, though he encourages them impersonally...
...radio stars have been unable to resist the appeal of movie contracts, and Kate Smith, biggest of them all, has proved no exception. In appearing in "The Big Broadcast" and now in "Hello Everybody," she has proved the superiority of the other ever the celluloid as a medium of communication between a two hundred pound woman and the great American public...
...voices and nimble wits which took advantage of the fact that there is small room for adjectives in the hasty columns of a metropolitan newspaper, that John Citizen is content to allow others to do his reading, thinking, and imagining for him, and that the radio offers a lucrative medium to pleasant voices and nimble wits. In turning to the sterner requirements of print, Mr. Hill seeks entrance into an able company. If one is averagely sentimental about public personalities and if one adopts a tolerant view of the author's self imposed restrictions, he is likely to grant admission...
Scrip Out. One of Secretary Woodin's first major decisions was to abandon the idea of scrip as a medium of exchange. Prime objection was that such a substitute currency would not circulate everywhere at par. Declared the Secretary: "Where would we be if we had I. O. U.'s, scrip and certificates floating all around the country?" Despite this ruling, scrip continued in use in small communities that long ago ran short of cash. At Nashville about $1,000,000 worth was put in circulation. The Louisville Courier-Journal paid its employes in scrip, redeemable at advertisers...
...contemporaries have to say. On the other hand, the study of the Classics being chiefly a matter of assimilation, if a man confines himself to the work assigned he may pass honorably through four years of it without any great incitement to original thought. The difficulty with the medium usually occupies too much of the time that should be spent on the substance. This is the fact, not the fiction that professional classicists are likely to assume about undergraduate study...