Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that pre-Depression season, set the style for a hundred-odd comedies of manners that followed it. Two years later, the first screen version, with Ann Harding, Mary Astorand the late Robert Ames in the leading roles, indicated amazingly that in talking pictures the cinema industry had found a medium which could rival the stage in its appeal to civilized, adult audiences. Now in its third edition, Holiday proves capable of providing one more shock...
...hospital. Then they could be treated far more energetically than within the organism, and if cured replanted in the patient. A thyroid extirpated in the course of an operation ... a kidney removed for tuberculosis, or a leg amputated for osteosarcoma, would perhaps heal under the influence of an artificial medium when living in vitro. The replantation would offer no difficulty, as surgical techniques for the suture of blood vessels and the transplantation of organs and limbs were developed long ago." In effect, Dr. Carrel, with the Lindbergh pump, is looking for the fountain of abundant, replaceable...
...craft today in Spain were not dropped for Adolf Hitler, since their radius of destruction is so tremendous as to be risky in war games, but in a land display the Führer was treated to the dropping of a total of at least 100,000 pounds of "medium bombs," which made the earth tremble, blasted to smithereens large structures built to represent industrial plants and harbor works...
...activities and experiments, could be administered to. It is with caution that the Houses are launching their new ventures of year books and ambitious dramatic productions. The Inter-House Committee, as a common source of information, would do much to hasten the development of the House system. Through this medium the other Houses could readily gain information concerning the pitfalls encountered by the Kirkland Year Book project or the Leverett newspaper...
...Harvard airmen will fly easily maneuverable two-seated Fleet biplanes, medium weight training ships. They have a slower landing speed than heavier and more advanced planes and are extremely versatile. Since there will be no speed event, as all events involving hazard were ruled out at the National Intercollegiate Flying Club Conference in Washington this April, they are splendidly adapted for this meet...