Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syndicalism, from the French syndicate (trade unions), differs from orthodox Socialism in that it advocates direct producer control over industry by the Unions rather than through the medium of the State. U. S. example: Industrial Workers of the World. Syndicalist doctrines have now been absorbed by Communism. In 35 States which enacted Wartime laws to protect their governments, advocacy of syndicalism is a criminal offense. Active use of these statutes against Communists is still made in California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey. In California are jailed eight violators of the syndicalist law, in Pennsylvania eight more...
...woodcut, has a great deal of force. Louis Lozowick contributes more drawings than any one other artist, and his work is very capable. His lithographs are of such scenes as building construction, trains, bridges, and ports. Making use of the full range of light effects which his medium allows, he turns his subjects into delightful black and white near-abstractions which show only the idyllic side of his industrial subjects. In "New York" he steps farther into the realm of the abstract to give an impression of the city in a pleasing design. Wanda Gag seems to be impressed with...
...program-publicity charge he said: "Radio programs are news, are demanded by readers. . . . While we have no desire to engage in the publishing business . . . certain it is that the public will get its information, if not through the logical medium of the newspapers, then through a new medium created for the purpose...
...born in Ballarat, Australia, still speaks with a rich bush-twang. He emerged from the War a witty cynic with an artistic manner reminiscent of Beerbohm the Exquisite, but with an even surer command of line. Possibly to make the Beerbohm parallel less marked he adopted etching as his medium two years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written cap tions that accompany them: A satanic gargoyle looking down on New York says, "Ah well, one lives and learns, one lives and learns." Jehovah being berated by melancholy Thomas Hardy for creating such...
...Sound is a series of waves. The waves need something to travel in. In general, the denser the medium the better sound gets through. Water is a better sound conductor than air. Steel is better than water...