Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having read your article in the Aug. 10 issue of TIME entitled "Duck .Moratorium?" I consider your magazine the proper medium for a further discussion of this subject if you will so permit...
...quite simple." But what the figure is and what the theorems, President Callahan, like the Bostonian trisectors, would not disclose last week. He too wanted copyright first. He was at Chippewa Falls, Wis. for the 75th anniversary celebration of Notre Dame Church, where once he preached. A friendly man, medium tall, 53, a horse back rider when he has time & opportunity, he was amused at the excitement over his statement. Said he: "Trisection has no special practical applications. . . . It is a matter of pure science or, rather, pure mathematics...
Director von Sternberg, neither creator nor translator, had the insoluble problem of duplicating a masterpiece in a medium which it was not meant to fit. The string of hasty sequences with which the picture replaces the first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the spectator remembers the novel well enough to fill in the gaps. Titles, gloomily printed on a background of waves, interrupt the action more than they elucidate it. Phillips Holmes plays Clyde Griffiths in perfunctory fashion. He experiences every human emotion without varying his expression except by a toothy smile...
...occasional game of golf (medium) is the only pastime allowed to punctuate Professor Monroe's far-flung cultural ministrations, which have extended to Poland, Jugoslavia. Smyrna, Porto Rico. China. Long a cordial sympathizer with the woes of China, it was Dr. Monroe who formed the plan whereby the Boxer indemnities, remitted by Congress in 1924, were steered into a fund for Chinese educational development. Last winter, fearful lest China turn Red, he urged the State Department to have German Reparations applied by capitalist Europe and the U. S. to China, to disband armies, build public works. The State Department...
...radio committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association proposed at the last convention that newspapers publish radio programs as paid advertising only, Radio replied through Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co.: "The public will get its information, if not through the newspapers, then through a new medium created for the purpose" (TIME, May 4). Fortnight later the Cincinnati newspapers began to skeletonize their radio programs to such terms as "Dialog" for Amos 'n Andy; "Commentator" for Lowell Thomas; "Dance Orchestra" for Paul Whiteman. Result: within a week appeared Radio Dial, an eight-page weekly selling...