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Word: formulaic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Tough | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...wide leeway in student planned programs actually results in a number of everspecialized, narrow-minded graduates, the fault for such an error does not necessarily lie with distribution formula. It functions only as a shell and is gauged to give each man an important role in his education. While some students may suffer from this responsibility, others can find the experience both maturing and challenging. The alternative, a system calling for more rigid prescription of the curriculum, might prove unsatisfactory and could turn instruction into a production line, the College into a factory. It seems impossible to stimulate 5000 minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

...comics had become a maker & breaker of publishing empires. The New York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stuff of Dreams | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...admirer, Publicist Merwin K. Hart. Franco told Hart that "other faiths which are not Catholic enjoy liberty in Spain. . . ." Said the letter of protest: "It is evident that the chapels about which the Chief of State spoke . . . constitute public exercises of cult, against the letter and spirit of the formula accepted by Rome. . . . These facts constitute a new attack on Catholic unity. The argument given that these declarations are necessary because of the campaign abroad by elements opposed to our country must be rejected. It is not admissible that political tolerance can be bought by religious tolerance. If this principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Madrid | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...European has a sex life; the Englishman has his hot-water bottle; this is why His Majesty's Colonel Ray Milland can't quite get acclimated to. Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

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