Word: medium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nation" and the "Evening Post" he maintained a tireless attack upon Tammany and base politics in general. When President Eliot introduced Lord Bryce in 1903, he said, "These lectures upon government and civic duty are in remembrance of a man who gave his life to the public through the medium of the press . . . Mr. Godkin was a man of remarkable vigor and great candor, and unremitting devotion to lofty ideals of public duty" . . . Lord Bryce fittingly eulogized him thus: "Courage, unselfishness, public spirit-these are the virtues needed to benefit a community and these Mr. Godkin possessed. He hated corruption...
...only does the House Committee arrange all dances, House dinners, and other social functions, but it also acts as a medium between the faculty and students living in the House...
...potent medium of musical expression, the phonograph record, is being ignored by many of Harvard's music courses. Especially guilty of this omission is Music 3, and it is suffering immeasurably from its neglect of phonographic interpretation of lecture material...
...good times become a boom and a boom becomes inflation. On only one point is there any unanimity: the possibilities of inflation in the U. S. lie almost wholly within the banking system. And the core of that problem is bank reserves and their manipulation. Excess Reserves. The principal medium of exchange in the U. S. is not currency, which accounts for only 10% of the total money supply, but credit money, which means checks. By law a bank must maintain with a Federal Reserve Bank a certain ratio of reserves to customers' deposits. Reserve requirements vary with locality...
...Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during the procession and disappeared. It had been picked up and quietly pocketed by an officer who as quietly produced it to his bug-eyed superiors. Normally the Crown reposes with the Sceptre and other Crown Jewels at the lower...