Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large squad of runners, vaulters, and field event men yesterday answered Coach Eddle Farrell's call for candidates as practice began for the spring track season. After a preliminary pep talk, Eddle sent the tracksters through their paces for the season's first formal practice...
...James Russell Lowell, President emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Astronomer Percival Lowell. The dining students of Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead of carved...
...average Marine with little or no formal education I am surprised at the low rating you give college students when you state that 60 is above college average...
...White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story of his decline until the Press reported no hope remained and formal obituaries were prepared...
...Privy Seal of His Majesty's Government, had gone over to Paris to fix the French and Italians, if he could. Italy's Vice Foreign Minister Fulvio Suvitch was sent up from Rome to eat luncheon with Capt. Eden at the ornate French Foreign Office. Afterward a formal pretense of Anglo-Franco-Italian solidarity was made, but as one of the Latin statesmen said: "We have decided to let Sir John pull chestnuts out of Herr Hitler's fire, if he can. Later we will see whether or not we like the chestnuts. We will never consent...