Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gist of Author Lin's philosophy is that Occidentals need to be taught "a wise disenchantment and a hearty enjoyment of ife." As a measuring rod for gauging the well-balanced man and nation. Dr. Lin submits a formula based on a blend of realism ("R"), dreams ("D"), humor ("H"), sensibility ("S"), qualified by 4 (abnormally high), 3 (high), 2 (fair) and 1 (low). The ideal formula, says Dr. Lin, is R3D2H352 (a middle-of-the-road balance). Nearest to this ideal are the English, one point low on humor and sensibility. The Germans, Japanese and Russians make...
...merchant marine is a definite branch of the National defense. It was a U. S. admiral, the late Alfred T. Mahan, who devised the standard war college formula: Sea power equals naval vessels plus merchant vessels. The Commission estimated that in the event of a war with a major foreign power, the U. S. would need a minimum of 1,000 merchant ships of all types. These are now available but they are old, and in certain categories there is serious shortage. There are only ten combination freight & passenger vessels which could be converted into aircraft carriers. The Navy thinks...
...these usually unhappy creatures happen to develop is beyond biology's present knowledge. Dr. Young guesses: "Fundamentally these disturbances of development must rest on the original chromosome formula" in the fertilized ovum which turns into a hermaphroditic baby. The embryo through the sixth to seventh week shows no differentiation into male or female. Thereafter, in the normal course of gestation, the primitive gonad becomes male or female, and the rest of the genital apparatus follows suit. But, in an astonishingly frequent number of gestations, something occurs to interfere with the development of the accessory male or female apparatus...
...have names like Chemi-Grow, Chemi-Crop Co., Shur-Gro Fertilizer Corp. They are legally within their rights, since hydroponics cannot be patented. The only patent which Dr. Gericke holds is for a container to diffuse the chemicals through the solution. But he argues, against the companies, that no formula works well for all plants, all climates, all conditions: and that even if they made a great variety of formulae there are other factors such as temperature and acid-alkali balance which must be thoroughly studied for successful hydroponics. Also, in his kindly if eccentric way,, he accuses them...
...paper. By 1906 Willis Carrier had devised an air conditioning system for use in cotton mills, which up to then had such a problem keeping humidity in their spinning rooms that they operated with windows open in the dead of winter. Five years later he worked out an engineering formula for atmosphere-moisture which made people begin calling him "the father of the airconditioning industry." And by 1915 he had enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark...