Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, with military discipline and Communists as their chiefs." But in his letter of defense, published last January in the Isvestia and the Prarda, he said : "Great political significance is attached to this term [Trotzkyism] in relation to the peasant question. I repudiate emphatically the assumption that the formula 'permanent revolution' was used by me as denoting lack of care in handling the peasant question." And he goes on to defend himself against the charge that he was seeking to create a personal platform for himself...
Last week, the experimenters made their discovery (all but the alloy formula) public for the first time. They had, said they, laid Crodon plating on copper, brass, and steel articles with notable success. The surfaces obtained were persistently lustrous, seemed never to need polishing, were almost as cheap to lay on as nickel, had 20 times the life of zinc. They resisted heat as well as electro-corrosion* and acids. They would be found valuable when applied to milled utensils (golf clubs, surgical instruments) that have now to be made of intractable alloys to render them long-wearing and stainless...
...crime to advertise any formula, ingredient, apparatus for the making of liquor...
...BEST NEWS STORIES OF 1924- Edited by Joseph Anthony and Woodman Morrison-Small, Maynard ($2.50). He who writes for him who reads as he runs must learn to write as he runs. For the latter's assistance, there is the who-what-where-when-how formula for first paragraphs, with its variations peculiar to various copy-desks. But within the narrow confines of a formula, triteness is escapable only by the unusually agile-minded reporter. The editors of this anthology have selected 70 examples of such agility -straight reporting, foreign correspondence, sport, "features," human interest, interviews and personality stories...
...lower depth. The average curve marks a steady fall in religious tone. In some countries the interest in religion is higher than in others. But in those countries where the interest is relatively high, it falls as the generations pass. Religion is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life...