Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Questions can now be discussed more fully and the student is called upon to fall back on his own individual mentality more than ever before. In general, it can be said that it is an approach to the tutorial system rather than any rigid application to the small class formula or any other formula...
Solution? Commission? Since privacy and the formula "appoint a commission" are twin keynotes of the Hoover Administration, observers were at no loss to explain the final action of the Council last week in attempting to persuade China and Japan that a Commission should be sent to investigate Manchuria...
...presence of a catalyst. As manager of the Badische Anilin-& Soda-Fabrik he built the Oppau ammonia works, without which Germany, cut off from nitrate-producing Chile, might have lost the War in 1914 by running out of munitions. (He was instrumental in perfecting the formula for making saltpetre from ammonia.) In 1917 he built the great Leuna Works to supply hard-pressed Germany with more fertilizer & munitions. After the War the works were turned to dye-making, and in 1925 Dr. Bosch organized and became head of the Farbenindustrie. He says little, listens much, dresses carelessly, and peers through...
This robust biography would have pleased its robust subject. It is written to the Roosevelt formula of history: "The exact truth . . . our disasters and shortcomings as well as our triumphs." Without too finicky mental analysis Biographer Pringle has painted the bouncing, bubbling, sometimes bumptious career of "Teddy'' (he loathed that nickname)? the sickly child who messed around with dead frogs; the dudish State legislator who "rose like a rocket"; the Civil Service Commissioner who warred with Postmaster General John Wanamaker on the spoils system; the New York City Police Commissioner who brought the town down about his ears...
Last week appeared another proposal which seemed to follow the maniacal destruction formula. "WOULD DECIMATE COWS," headlined the New York Sun. "Dairymen Urged to Destroy One in Every Ten." Alarmed city folk read on to learn the worst, found that the recommendations had been made to, not by, the Federal Farm Board, which nevertheless passed them on to the public...