Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement of ten football dances in the Houses, will probably solve the post-game entertainment problems for most undergraduates. The varied programs to be presented will include tea dances, supper dances and one formal...
...heat, dust. Last week the uncomfortable feature of his East-to-West journey was the 17th annual convention of the American Legion at St. Louis. At one time the President had tentatively agreed to address the Legionaries. He now had changed his mind. So he arranged his itinerary with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington...
Irreverent operagoers will always giggle to see fat, formal singers decked with feathers and emitting feeble whoops. Nor were many impressed with the Metropolitan's stiff, loud-lunged "Puritans" who choired in Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. In Boston next week and in Manhattan nine days later audiences will at least see and hear something different...
...cherishes his youth. Though the heart, the Vagabond has been told, doesn't wrinkle, still well he knows it becomes poor. For in youth all things are of the same importance; nothing escapes our attention; and dreams are more precious than facts. But as we ascend the steps of formal education we act with design; busy ourselves with particulars; and carefully exchange the pure gold of the imagination for the paper currency of book definitions. And thus, as the philosophers suggest, win in the breadth of life what we unwisely lose in depth...
...following prizes are awards made either for competitions of which the date is still unannounced or for which no formal competition is necessary...