Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium-sized vermiform appendix (they vary from less than one inch to more than seven inches in length) was successfully removed in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week from Miss Joan Margaret MacDonald (second daughter). She, aged 22 and a fourth-year student of surgery at the University of Edinburgh, became engaged last month to a graduate medical student, Alastair MacKinnon, 23 (TIME, Sept...
Agar is used chiefly as a culture medium in bacteriology because it keeps its form at higher temperatures than gelatin. Petroleum-agar, a familiar household intestinal lubricant, contains the substance in small quantities. It is useful in the making of glue, transparent silk, paper...
...appearance he is taller than his Ohio colleague, short Senator Simeon Davison Fess, or his No. 1 political sponsor, medium-sized Postmaster General Brown. A wide mouth, strong nose, sharp eyes under wrinkly brows, a fine head of wavy dark hair touched with grey combine to give him a certain cinematic handsomeness. In dress he is quiet, neat, careful about his neckties...
...buildings with flaming murals. There were weighty men in that syndicate. Beside Rivera and Orozco there were such names as Jean Chariot, Carlos Merida and Pachecho. Their water boy and official brush washer was Miguel Covarrubias, now a highly paid smartchart caricaturist. Artist Orozco meanwhile was experimenting with the medium that was to bring him his greatest success: true fresco, painting in tempera on wet plaster so that the design becomes a part of and not an application to the wall. In 1929 the political explosion that brought death to thousands of Mexican soldiers landed Artist Orozco in New York...
...first time to a lusty outdoor theme. Snowstorms, deserts, mountains, prairies loomed up bigger and better than ever. Shots of plunging, thundering animals often took on the composition of good painting and the vigor of fine sculpture. Beauty was mingled cunningly with sweep and strength. Mass found its medium...