Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bacterial shift became possible only after Professor Kendall had invented a special food, or medium, for germs to grow in. The medium had to be very much like the food which germs find for themselves in a living body. The medium also had to be kept in a condition closely resembling the body environment...
...germ food. He will reveal them after a fortnight so that other bacteriologists can duplicate his work, find fault with it or confirm it. Essential ingredient, however, of the food is the small intestine of man, swine, dog or rabbit treated chemically. The resulting stuff he calls "K medium." Scientists who heard Professor Kendall explain his work last week were prompt with applause. Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, Dean of Northwestern's medical school (post which Professor Kendall held 1916-24) burst out with "This discovery is as startling to the scientific world as were the discoveries of Pasteur...
...revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly and chuckle with relief. Well photographed, directed and acted, Night Nurse achieves a higher plane in the cinema than it did as a novel written for the drugstore trade by Dora Macy. This is partly because of the medium, partly because Actress Stanwyck's understanding portrayal makes the girl seem none the less charming when, in rueful contemplation of her bruised jaw, she relieves her feelings by thoughtfully murmuring, "The dirty, lousy...
Lyman Clark, president of Fox, utility tycoon, became interested in cinema through consideration of its use as an educative medium. In 1920 he founded the Society for Visual Education, invested a half-million dollars in producing educational films. When the 25 school super intendents approached Fox last year to see what could be done about manufacturing sound films for school use, Mr. Clark agreed to manufacture films for schools if it could be demonstrated that the. schools were prepared to use them...
When stocks were going up Bernard E. Smith, floor trader with an office at W. E. Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than...