Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education offers the one sure road to economic prosperity, social soundness and a safe democracy. What he questions is the soundness of the particular formula, not the possibility of achievement through education when the right formula is found. He therefore gives the warmest welcome to every idea labeled...
...Harris said to him: "Can't you get a little more variety into your performance?" Replied Zeppo: "Just how many ways are there of saying yes?" The Gay Diplomat (RKO Radio) is a routine spy story which contains the one necessary new factor in the spy story formula. This factor consists in having two beautiful women both suspected of being spies. One of them, the heroine (Genevieve Tobin), proves to be innocent. The other (Betty Compson) is trapped by a handsome Rumanian officer (Ivan Lebedeff). The fact that Ivan Lebedeff speaks very poor English has been disguised by setting...
...Mary Louise Boillin, research assistant at Columbia's Teachers College, last week propounded an accurate formula to figure any woman's proper weight. Height therein is far less important than chest measurements. The formula, which Dr.Boillin calls "the multiple regression equation," she verified by measuring 815 Wellesley girls. It is: 2.5014 times width of hips in cm. + 0.5245 times height in cm. + 4.6024 times depth of chest in cm. + 0.8954 times biacromial width* in cm. + 2.8644 times chest width in cm. - 209.2255 = proper weight in pounds for the particular woman...
...York Legislature a relief plan to which he could point in a national campaign. His was the first program to be inaugurated by a State for the winter emergency. It might well become a model for other Legislatures, including the national one at Washington. Governor Roosevelt had devised a formula of sup plying relief and still dodging the dole. Important was the political philosophy he put into his message to the Legislature. It had undertones which might well be come the main motif in 1932. Some excerpts...
...comedians reach a crisis when they graduate from two-reel comedies to six-reel feature films. Funnymen Laurel & Hardy emerge from the crisis as funny as ever but no funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break...