Word: formula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that it can sometimes get results...
...formula used towards these aims is to place each American student in the home of a foreign family with a boy or girl his or her age. After one month of living with families, 10 American boys and girls invite their 10 hosts on a two-week walking, cycling, or camping trip. The final two weeks are spent doing something of particular interest, such as attending the Shakespeare Festival or the Salzburg concerts...
...Secret Formula...
During the afternoon, however, most of the men cen be found around an amply filled punch bowl on the sidelines of the baseball field. Traditionally, Stanley Semers of the University Theatre prepares the mixture with a formula which has sidetracked many celebrants...
...earlier, when he was a 28-year-old lecturer at Japan's Osaka University, Yukawa had taken the next step beyond the theory of nuclear fission with his brilliantly propounded theory of the meson. It had taken him more than a year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later the unknown particle was verified by Dr. Carl D. Anderson in laboratory experiments, and later named "meson...