Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factor in obtaining entrance to college. The teacher does not have to be a vending machine of examination answers. Instead of kowtowing to an omnipotent Board, he may follow his star. To quote Dr. Fuess, "Our educational renaissance, when or if it comes, will not be fathered by a formula--In education, what is needed most...
When public opinion is at fault, as it is in regard to the value of real scholarship, specific remedies can have little effect, and their effect must be very slow. The millennium in education, as in polities, will not be fathered by a formula. But that does not mean that the actual situation has to be accepted with a passive fatalism...
...Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers...
...only trouble with this formula in New York is that in the past decade it has failed to win elections for Republican nominees. Carefully following in his father's oversized footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. served two years at Albany before going to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.? In 1924 when he ran for Governor, Alfred Emanuel Smith defeated him unmercifully. Ogden Livingston Mills spent two years in the State Senate, six in the House of Representatives, but Smith trounced him too, in 1926. Albert Ottinger was a State Senator before President Harding...
...strong believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican editors tush-tushed the vice-presidential nominee for failing to stand by President Hoover's State option formula. Gleefully exclaimed Democratic Chairman Farley: "It looks as if the Republican ticket had a half-dry head and a dried-out tail...