Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comic strips, expanded the letters-to-the-editor column, and turned Woman's Editor Anne Edwards loose for two columns on her favorite foods and pet hates. The Daily Mirror, locked in a circulation war with the Express, also added a woman's page to its successful formula of sex-plus-Socialism...
...smiling young Russian opened the door and said, "Good day." The man in the partisan officer's uniform entered and went straight to the rickety table in the center of the room. Carefully following the agreed formula, he laid out the things he had brought-five potatoes here, a quarter-pound of tea in the center, a handful of raisins to the left. Then the visitor nervously repeated the words of the code: "Your friend Sasha asked me to pay you my respects and to thank you for your kindness to his mother." The Russian quickly gave...
...millions of American children now lacking educational opportunities." The NEA is happier this year with the Democratic victory, but it is willing to stick to the kind of legislation Senator Taft proposed in 1948. Taft assured all concerned that the national regime would only pay out according to formula--nothing else...
...salt domes and along the shores of Texas, the cracking towers and silvery balls of synthetic rubber, plastics and fertilizer plants had created a new chemical empire. Profits had helped pay for expansion. An excess-profits tax would not only nip the expansion but, if the wartime formula was followed, would hit the most progressive companies hardest (Jersey Standard would pay more heavily than U.S. Steel). As Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said: "You can say so much against it [an excess-profit tax] that I have difficulty in understanding what anybody...
This week the baby's formula was changed. The Mirror's sideways front page (TIME, Oct. 18) was turned right side up. The bad printing, which had also helped make the paper hard to read, was improved. Flamboyant Florabel Muir, Hollywood correspondent for the New York Daily News and writer for Variety, joined the staff of the Mirror as a part-time columnist...