Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting up an educational reconstruction program for Germany, the Military Government has been laying emphasis on an "advise, observe, and assist" formula. But the process of transition from Nazism to democracy is painfully slow, Grace pointed out, and the job is necessarily a long-term...
Unlike Britain and France, which have long used a system of year-end ratings to evaluate top race horses the U.S. muddled along with no official formula for comparing its turf champions. Last month in Lexington, Ky., breeders of the Thoroughbred Club of America decided to do something about it. They agreed on a plan to standardize rankings of the nation's top-flighters with a system of handicap weights based on performances at a mile-and-a-quarter. It was to be called the Yardstick...
...Comes Up (MGM) is an unsuccessful attempt, in Technicolor, to recapture the magic formula which made a hit of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling (TIME, Jan. 13, 1947). The story was written by Novelist Rawlings, the lead is again played by Claude Jarman Jr. and Lassie is in the cast to handle the heart tugs supplied by a fawn in the first picture. The second venture, obviously intended to be a natural, is as unnatural as a purple zebra...
...Paleface. The cowboys & Indians formula thoroughly demoralized by Bob Hope (TIME...
...Paleface. The cowboys & Indians formula thoroughly demoralized by Bob Hope (TIME...