Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they would through the medium of apparently more serious articles...
...magazine is a quarterly publication carrying articles deal'vg chiefly with the affairs of the University. It was established in 1892 as a medium for graduate comment and criticism. During his term as editor De Voto contributed toward making the magazine "one of the few periodicals that can openly make constructive criticism of Harvard," as one of the contributors said in commenting on his retirement...
...greedy capital which is keen-sighted and may shift for itself; but he beggars labor which is honest, unsuspecting and too busy with the present to calculate for the future. The prosperity of the working classes lives, moves and has its being in established credit and a steady medium of payment...
Five Farms is a medium-length course -6,622 yd. It is more famed for beauty than stiffness. Johnny Fischer, lanky 6-ft. University of Michigan junior, this year's intercollegiate champion, broke the course record with a 69 on the first day, was medalist with a 142 for the 36 holes. Qualifying score was 152. The player who looks so much like Woodrow Wilson, defending champion Francis Ouimet, barely saved himself in the last seven holes to qualify with a 151. All the British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser...
Life Begins (Warner) is a surprising production for a medium in which even the picture of a stork or of a cabbage patch was once considered too outspoken. It is Grand Hotel in an obstetrical ward?the principal members of its cast are seven expectant mothers, one of them equipped with twins. The old theme of a father waiting for his child to be born is only the springboard episode for Life Begins. Before the main plot develops, the audience has heard the moans of the "labor room," seen a pregnant woman of the world (Glenda Farrell) drink whiskey from...