Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of a chilling melodrama, houses Scotland Yard detectives, criminals, innocents, relief comedians, all bent upon recapturing the Duchess's stolen jewels. Weird entrances and exits are effected through skylights, windows, doors. Eden Gray, as heroine, lends a touch of beauty. The play, though strictly according to formula, is fairly exciting...
Rubber. An international group of researchers agreed that synthetic rubber is not yet. The report of Dr. Richard Weilfi of Germany was most significant: during the War, Germany needed rubber badly, tried many formulas including one that starts from starch. Potatoes and corn were too scarce for food to permit using this one. Another formula, in coal and lime, was followed to produce 2,350 tons of synthetic rubber. But the product cost five dollars a pound; automobile tires made of it wore out after 1,500 miles; for inner tubes it was useless...
...Formula. By not objecting the Council members approved a resolution recommending to the Assembly of the League of Nations that it take the following action: 1) Admit Germany to the League and to a permanent Council seat. 2) Raise the number of nonpermanent seats from six to nine. 3) Make three of the nine non-permanently seated nations eligible for reelection...
Under this formula the Assembly can salve the wounded pride of Spain by awarding to that country one of the new re-electable or semi-permanent seats. Brazil who has served notice of withdrawal from the League (TIME, June 21) may be tempted back by a similar plum. Poland will assumedly not be forgotten, as the dependent ally of potent France. The Assembly, which convened at Geneva last week, is thus provided with three tempting prizes to grant or withhold for good behavior among the nations...
...mystery play success since The Bat. The playwright has managed to put so much suspense and excitement into his three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close the one you are supposed never to have suspected seriously is revealed as guilty. It is all delightfully thrilling fun, and Paul Harvey...