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Word: mediums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From this it should be clear that Schneider and Kirkpatrick are unassailable interpreters of eighteenth century music. Baroque and classical sonatas for violin and piano have become virtually their property, and their flawless technique and honesty to the medium have scared away any competition. Judging by Wednesday night's concert, there is little reason to dispute that ownership...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...conservation, and flood control, then a CVA would be superfluous. But private business and the bureaus are not doing even an acceptable job in these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass the CVA bill, it will have something, at least, to be proud of, regardless of the rest of its legislative record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Power to the CVA | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...better baritone than the Met's burly Robert Weede to sing the lead role of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully to bury her husband, and George Balanchine to tune up a satirical little minuet, Troubled Island should have had no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubled Opera | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...region considered so crucial in the Atlantic Pact), and not the United States, where anti-Russian and anti-communist feeling is already much too intense. If Schlesinger wished to announce his disapproval of the Conference, he had far better have done so as an individual than through the dubious medium of Professor Hook's dummy organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foul Ball | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

...electronics, the radio spectrum has three main communications divisions: Medium Frequency, used for standard radio; Very High Frequency, used for television; Ultra High Frequency, now used for radar and airplane communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Is Your Set Obsolete? | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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