Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinn Fein, has been a common desire to see Gaelic culture and the Gaelic language predominant in the newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition; and Welsh, which is still the only language of some hundred thousand people, has become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China, the symptoms have been the cause of international attention. Yesterday in India, natives decreed...
...Exciting dramatic situations are nearly always based on sex conflicts," she asserted, "and this is especially true of the opera. Love is the medium that is used to introduce our most beautiful arias in fact, the action of the opera might be considered more informal than that of the regular drama, and because of that, it is, in my opinion more human, and also more modern. Since the way you know, even Americans are becoming informal...
Southbound. Leaving Washington, President Coolidge smoked a long cigar. Then he took his after-lunch nap. Passing through Virginia, he discoursed on the Civil War. Entering North Carolina towards dusk, he looked out of the car window at farmers' brush fires. He dined early, on steak (medium), carrots, tea, Roquefort cheese. He smiled at Pullman-waiter T. C. Radcliffe, thanked him, retired to the club car to see Will Rogers in a cinema called A Texas Steer (comedy). Cuban travel scenes and "shots" of Havana were also shown...
Problem: to transfer gold from the German to the French government through the sole medium of hops...
...poetry, is forever bringing recurring poetic rhythms to her prose. The result is not, fortunately, that strange thing called "Iyricprose"; it is very beautiful and its melody is very simple, although the reader must be aware that an enormous complexity has given rise to this simplicity. Miss Roberts' medium is effective; her mastery over it demonstrates the possibility of a good poet being a good novelist. And "My Heart And My Flesh" is quite worthy of the author's standard-which is no mean degree of praise...