Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary estimates of the geographical distribution of the Class of 1938 indicate that it will follow the usual formula with more than half of the men coming from the New England states. There is a slight increase however in the representatives from the Middle West which is compensated for by a decrease in the number from southern states and foreign countries. The men come from the various sections of the country in about the following proportions: Section Per Cent New England 55 Middle Atlantic...
...Jimmie Rodgers' songs was called "Whippin' That Old T. B." A doctor told him he could never whip it if he kept on drinking, prescribed a codeine formula to allay his pain. But it was too late then. Last year in Manhattan tuberculosis whipped Jimmie Rodgers into his grave...
From the editorial success of the Stars & Stripes Harold Ross had carried home the outlines of a formula for a magazine to be written and edited strictly for one class of readers. Its blood and bone was to be delicate but honest humor and satire, written up to the standards of its editors, deliberately unpopular with the masses. With caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play...
Convinced of the efficacy of Mr. Houghton's fog broom, newshawks last week rushed to him with demands for the chemical formula. Mr. Houghton put up his hands. "That," he smiled, "is a secret...
Under such conditions Washington's polite formula of a three-man board to mediate a strike was not enough last week to avert several funerals in San Francisco. From early May, when 12,000 unionized longshoremen struck on the Pacific Coast, a grim state of siege has prevailed in all Pacific ports north of Los Angeles...