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Word: mediums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things. His medium was Review of Reviews (monthly). Thus from his seat at West Orange, N. J. did Thomas Edison pontificate de rebus sanitatis: Are there certain definite fields in which the research of the future will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Edison: De Rebus Sanitatis | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...late spiritualist husband Lady Doyle declared: "I happen to know that [since his death] he could have gone very high, but deliberately remained behind in order to keep contact with the earth and influence the spiritualist movement." Thus did she refute recent testimony by a spiritualist medium that the soul of Sir Arthur was "earthbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...give away numbered tickets-bearing the portrait of Mayor Thompson-with every 25 purchase. Those who draw the winning tickets will receive prizes amounting to $1,000,000. Aware that the Post Office Department would consider his scheme illegal, said amazing Mayor Thompson: "I'm going to a medium who's in touch regularly with the spirit of Grover Cleveland. I'll tell the medium to get in touch with Grover Cleveland and I'll tell Cleveland: 'Grover, you were President of the United States during a hard-time period. We're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Shade Invoked | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...research in mussel-raising for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Fresh water mussels, source of pearl buttons, spend the first six weeks of their lives attached to fish upon which they feed. After that the buttons-to-be break away, support themselves. Dr. Ellis has found a nutrient medium to take the place of the fish, containing all the substances a growing mussel needs. Next spring fishery officials hope to plant in the Mississippi valley 60 million juvenile mussels raised on Dr. Ellis' diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: BUTTONS TO BE | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...said: "Symphonic music is only a very small part of what radio can do. It is equal to anything man ever has had for exchange of thought, of imagination, of beauty; for developing everything that makes life a wonderful thing. Perhaps never before has there been such a medium. For the development of civilization, nothing is so important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stokowskitalk | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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