Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What then, is the Harvard type? Needless to say, the formula is complex, but perhaps the many elements do combine to form something tangible. There are, I might say, two types with a common characteristic. There is the club member who belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society...
...absurd and puerile things that go on in the name of education. What I have seen convinces me that most of the Satellites do not know what education is. They are told they are getting it, so they believe they are. They think it is the product of a formula which they state as follows...
...This formula is a good one, Usbek, for it produces exactly what it proposes...
Such was the millennialistic idea put forward, last week, by Dr. Carleton Simon, Special Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City. It struck Special Deputy Police Commissioner Herman A. Metz as such a good idea that he promptly offered a prize of $100,000 for discovery of the synthetic formula...
...Metz' main objective would seem to be achieved if a synthetic opium having narcotic qualities were discovered. Such a formula could be controlled by the Government and would serve to destroy the vested poppy interests, as synthetic dyes replaced indigo growing...