Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME of Dec. 23 you quoted Sir James Hopwood Jeans's formula for remembering the value of Pi to the fourteenth decimal as "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapter involving quantum mechanics,'' each word-length indicating a digit...
...offer the following formula to your reader-mathematicians as more practicable, inasmuch as rhyme is often more easily remembered than prose...
...smoldering mite whose dances are Castillian and carnal, and the Griffiths Brothers whose appearance disguised as a horse proves again that nothing is much funnier than the combination of animal aspect and human behavior. Neglecting ambitious scenery and lavish chorus effects, Mr. Cochran has revitalized the decrepit revue formula with large doses of the unfailing remedy of personality. Wake Up and Dream succeeds because it contains individuals who do individual things...
Yardstick Across Knee. To appreciate the French note one must recall that when President Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...