Word: mediumly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...industry knows that it is due to go through an economic wringer. Furriers made the most of the easy-money period during the war and immediately afterwards. When OPA controls came off, prices of luxury furs doubled; medium-priced furs went up 50%. The buying rush has come to an abrupt end because of 1) the unseasonable warm weather, 2) fur imports from abroad, and 3) buyers' resistance to the high prices...
...play was already far above last year's. More attention was being paid to defense, less to pell-mell pace and the hurried ball-slinging that passed for finesse during wartime. The day of the seven-foot goons seemed to be passing. The brightest basketeers were players of medium height (in basketball lingo: 6 ft. 3 in.) and high skill...
Television screens lie in store as a new medium of entertainment for the University, possibly within the next year. To be designated WBZ-TV, a new station located adjacent to the Stadium will be Boston's first commercial television facility...
Look' through the Wall. "Cecil B. DeMille is out of fashion among the critics. But ... I have seen The Sign of the Cross twice over and am still an unrepentant admirer. There is no director to touch him in command of the medium: certainly none who strikes such awe into my professional mind . . . [with] his crowds and continuities, yes, and images too. ... How good and fine an artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best...
...have delighted in W. C. Fields and Fred Astaire nor fallen in love . . . with the great Miss West. The documentary group would not have gone very far if it had been all for public observation and reform and not started with an affection for the living quicksilver of the medium itself...