Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantages of those motors. So Wright Aeronautical told the many unknowing ones in great advertisements that its $25-h. p. Cyclone is built for the great air lines and heavy-duty express planes, its 3OO-h. p. Whirlwind for multi-motored passenger carriers, its 225-h. p. Whirlwind for medium-sized passenger planes, its 150-h. p. Whirlwind for small runabout planes. Topping those advertisements, Wright's then announced that they would manufacture the loo-h. p. De Haviland Gypsy, a four-cylinder-in-line air-cooled engine (the other Wrights are radial air-cooled) for small gadabouts...
...Viking. Although the odd, no-colored daylight of the camera suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even...
...interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient of obstructionism. It is on Mr. Walker, however, that the destinies of Blair & Co. most vitally depend. In an association, theoretically, of equals, Mr. Walker stands unquestionably a superior. He it is who decides where...
...most sacred treasures of American literature. We all know that it was delivered upon a most solemn occasion and was written to dedicate a National Cemetery for those who gave all on that great battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present in the Stadium that afternoon were grieved to hear a Harvard man make such a blunder. We were delighted that the elements reduced his audience to a minimum...
WHERE do we go from here?" is asked not only by the would-be Bohemian in a material way, but by all civilization in a much more searching fashion. The Guild proved a medium for expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have...