Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hooton's study, for which he examined over 50,000 men, was performed in conjunction with the Quartermaster Department. It said that the infantry is "deficient" in all thin types, and in all submedium and medium fat types that would have a low degree of muscular development. It also noted deficiencies in fat and very-fat physiques...
Crucial in the theory of relativity is the nature and behavior of light. In the 19th century, the prevailing idea was that light is a wave motion, and therefore needs a medium to travel in, as sound waves travel in air. Since light passes unhindered through vacuums, including the vacuum between the stars and the earth, 19th century scientists were driven to postulate a "luminiferous ether." which filled all space. It offered no resistance to the motions of stars or planets, but carried light waves with perfect efficiency...
...first successes as an artist were dramatic woodcuts, but at 37 he finds sculpture his natural medium. Sophisticated, gentle and intense, he lives with his wife and small son in a home that was once the servants' quarters of the old Frank Lyman estate in Northampton, works in a converted harness room back of the house...
...reply to a question about theater criticism the actress declared that criticizing a play is difficult because theater is too spontaneous a medium, too fitting for its moment, to be thought out in an alien way later on. Critics must learn that to be kind to a play they must lash into it, she explained. The critic who praises a bad play, or even a mediocre one, she said, fails to understand the cruelty of being so kind...
...funds provided for a magazine on the plan of Portfolio which, even more than Fogg exhibitions, could familiarize the Cambridge community with the graphic art of the best Harvard and Radcliffe artists. As well, the regular appearance of such a magazine might increase the productiveness of undergraduates in this medium. Certainly this effort would provide a useful outlet for undergraduate...