Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probability, the substance of actual fact. Only the members of the Harvard Corporation knew what passed in their meeting on Monday. In the absence of an official statement of the transaction, it appears evident that whatever news there was, found its way into print through a friendly medium in the Corporation itself...
...become an ample idler; he took pictures, thousands of them. He had always believed that photography was a medium of art which could be as sensitive, as interpretative as painting, etching or engraving. Out of the confused mass of forms in the visible world he selected serene or startling shapes and contours, the tense grace of sewing fingers, the slopes and rotundities of the nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression...
...interview yesterday, Gluyas Williams '11, renowned cartoonist and illustrator, was most enthusiastic in his praise of the training afforded aspiring artists and writers through the medium of college publications. Williams drew for the Lampoon while an undergraduate at Harvard and attributes the inspiration for his present career to that experience...
Henrik Ibsen's .Hedda Gabler is, as her many admirers know, "about twenty-nine . . . a woman of breeding and distinction. Her complexion is pale and opaque-her eyes, steel gray, express a cold unruffled repose. Her hair is an agreeable medium brown, not particularly abundant. She is dressed tastefully in a somewhat loose-fitting morning gown...
...numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...