Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Added the non-partisan Yi Shih Pao: "The tariff autonomy proposal is a mere formula. . . .The result of the conference is easy to predict...
...think your pieces in the paper are perfectly wonderful. (Honest I do.) . . . Gosh but your ideas are the cutest things! The girls all tease me because I am writing this letter to ask you for your picture, but I don't care--not I! Ever since I saw the formula for your trick play I have given up cutting Harold Lloyd's pictures out of the Movie Supplements. Everything is changed...
...adopted by the convention in a resolution cyrstalizing the financial doctrines of the party, this new "formula" urges the Government to exact "a special contribution on all forms of fortune and capital." This phrase, is interpreted as urging that interest payments be suspended on all French Government securities and the sums thus realized used to recoup France financially. It is thought that a levy on interest may succeed as being more "orthodox" than one on capital. For the moment M. Caillaux has pledged himself to the measure "as a member of the Radical Party, though not necessarily as Finance Minister...
...Independent, Casper Harvey supplies a study of "Who's Who in America" from the geographical point of view. Amid a maze of ratios and figures, the fundamental formula for success stands out vividly, "Be born in Vermont and move to Massachusetts". That this recipe worked in the case of President Coolidge, regardless of the man's nature, is a sure proof of its reliability. Somewhere in the rocky soil of the Green Mountain state lies the secret of prominence as yet unexploited by realtors. Judicious advertising among eugenic-minded people might cause an emigration to Vermont. Using the Independent...
...scrimmage (four will usually suffice.) Receiving it, he starts running at top-speed in circles, gradually widening until he crosses the enemy goal line. The duty of the other Harvard men is to keep out of his way. I have proved mathematically that he cannot be stopped. My formula follows: 200 lbs x 32 ft. per sec. x 3.1416./100 yds. x 11 Holy Cross Players...