Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., editor of the Catholic magazine, the Queen's Work: "People in love are the worst possible ones to pick mates objectively." His formula for successful marriage: "The four Ms-mind, money, manners and meals...
...Formula. The committee's other case centered on Yugoslav-born Steve Nelson, a Communist Party stalwart, onetime chairman of its San Francisco chapter. The committee, with rare restraint, did not identify Nelson's contact, an atomic researcher at the University...
California. It reported that "Scientist X" had gone to Nelson's home one night in March 1943, had read to Nelson a "complicated formula" which Nelson copied down. Several days later, Nelson got in touch with the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, met Vice Consul Peter Ivanov on the grounds of St. Francis Hospital. There, said the report, "Nelson transferred something to Ivanov ... If the matter transferred included the formula that Scientist X had given Nelson-and the inference is irresistible that it did-it was a formula of importance in the development of the atom bomb...
...play tells of three glaringly dissimilar couples who decide to share a Manhattan mansion. One couple is incredibly frivolous and snobbish; another is grubby, worthy and naive; both are caricatures, while the third is merely colorless. Never deviating from formula, Town House first shows the couples squabbling with one another, then shows them squabbling among themselves, introduces a snooty mother, a sassy child, and a big shot neighbor who first wishes them all in hell and finally carries them all to heaven...
...Glyoxylide, according to Dr. Koch, is the "internal anhydride" of glyoxylic acid. Chemists know all about glyoxylic acid, but they never heard of anybody having isolated its internal anhydride. Food & Drug Attorney William W. Goodrich said Government chemists could find nothing in it but distilled water, called it a "formula for nothing...