Word: formula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formula fixed by regulation: if a freighter of 5,000 gross tons or less is found to have more than five rats, it must undergo "de-ratization"; for ships over 5,000 tons, one rat is allowed for every 1,000 tons, with an outside limit of 20 rats. For passenger ships, quarantine officers make their own rules...
...confident of this simple formula that they tossed Stop the Music, a full hour show, into one of the toughest spots in radio, Sunday from 8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T., bucking NBC's Charlie McCarthy and Fred Allen. Headlined Variety: "Who's Afraid of Fred Allen?" The confidence has paid...
...pressure. Ever since Hippocrates, doctors have believed that certain kinds of people lean toward certain kinds of diseases. Many a wild guess has been made about body types (e.g., tall, thin people get tuberculosis; short, fat ones get apoplexy). Last week two Manhattan doctors came out with a new formula, to help predict every man's psychosomatic risks...
After 20 years of study, Drs. Eli Moschowitz and Mata B. Roudin wrote their formula down: "Constitution times psychologic trauma gives hyperkinesis which results in psychosomatic disease." Translation: mental or emotional shock makes certain organs overactive; the patient's personality determines which organs will be affected. The kind of personality, rather than the kind of shock, is the key. The same kind of shock (e.g., death of a relative or loss of a job) might give one type of man stomach ulcers, another, ulcerative colitis. In the current New York State Journal of Medicine, Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin wrapped...
Clare Boothe Luce paid tribute of a sort to Eleanor Roosevelt, another writer, by urging her on the Democrats as their ideal candidate for Vice President. Her theory: Harry Truman might well ride into a new term on Eleanor Roosevelt's coattails. "I dare to suggest this winning formula to the Democrats," the Republican ex-Congresswoman concluded, "because it is almost certain that, being men first and Democrats second, they will not have the courage, vision or intelligence to adopt...