Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure lower group of fungi is the medium for Dr. Ledingham's experiment. This fungus attacks the roots of wheat plants and causes considerable damage. From a scientific point of view, they have extraordinary methods of nuclear division, that are different from the usual means...
...proposal that is favored by many, calls for a headquarters for commuters and others not living in the Houses to be located in Phillips Brooks House. In this status Brooks House will be the medium through which these men will be able to have full standing in the Inter-House League. They will be entitled to awards, and any cups won by this new group will be kept in Brooks House. Under this proposed program, all upperclassmen in this category will organize their teams under the leadership of and have full league participation under the name of Phillips Brooks House...
Last week the Abbey Theatre Players, who began their second U. S. tour since 1914 in Manhattan fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 31), had an important little play called The Words Upon The Window Pane to introduce to the U. S. Scene is in a spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young...
...little book are a reprint of three radio lectures delivered by Mr. Eliot in England. On the printed page they reveal the fundamental limitations of the type, although the specific flavor of the lecture is happily absent. The radio, even more than the public platform, is obviously a difficult medium for anything more than the conventional 'appreciative' discourse on poetry, and these essays can best be taken as an exceptionally graceful and discriminating specimen of that character. They bring little new matter to the contemporary 'rehabilitation' of Dryden's reputation, though they may possibly give wider currency to that phenomenon...
...design in that it is voiced as an ensemble rather than as an aggregation of solo effects. At one time the organ degenerated into a theatre instrument, but the Isham instrument is, to date, one of the most thorough-going attempts to treat the organ as an independent musical medium...