Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanctions Committee of 52 states and asked that Britain and France receive an unlimited "mandate to seek the elements of a solution." An interjection by Poland that so momentous a decision would have to come before the League Council prevented the Committee from adopting it as a formal motion, but without a vote it was adopted anyway when the Portuguese chairman of the Committee intoned: "The members of the League assembled in this Committee have given it their full approval...
...East, unlike other sections of the country, has no football "conference." Nearest approach to such a thing is a group of ten teams linked without formal organization by the fact that each plays at least three of the others: Army, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Yale...
When it came time for a formal inauguration last spring, President Keezer invited the usual academic guests, informed them that they, not he, would do the talking. One suggestion he acted on was for a system of faculty advisers charged with the duty of seeing that new students get a "custom-made" rather than a "ready-to-wear" curriculum...
...which Louis XVI promptly suppressed. A brilliant comedy, relating the conflict of a lackey and his noble master, its revolutionary implications were plain, for it presented the lackey as witty, resourceful, strong. For the first time, a member of the lower class was pictured as a hero on the formal Paris stage. Inconsistently, the bored nobles demanded the presentation of a play which ridiculed them and delighted the masses, forced Louis to withdraw...
...Center, the Aquarium, the Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...