Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceedings did not fail to recognize the formal purpose of the investigation: to find means of plugging holes in the income tax law, not just to ferret out individual tax dodgers. Chairman Doughton read a short statement saying that none but "those who used flagrant means of tax avoidance'' need be uneasy about the coming inquisition. Secretary Morgenthau in a monotone told the committee that nowadays there are 45,000 tax lawyers and accountants, specialists in saving their clients taxes, that often it is difficult to tell the difference "between tax avoidance which is proper and tax-evasion...
...Business Advisory Council gave them a luncheon. Secretary of State Cordell Hull made a speech. At the Burning Tree, Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs they played golf earnestly and remarkably well. Convinced by members of the State Department that Franklin Roosevelt minded not at all their lack of formal morning clothes, they spent a smiling half hour with the President...
...possible exception of the mosque in Paris, which charges five francs entrance fee and contains two cafés, the Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world...
Thursday morning sees more than three centuries of Harvard history blend in the formal ceremony that surrounds the Commencement of the latest class to leave the University. Finally, Friday, comes the general tapering off, from which stand out the exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...affairs of modern life and pass unruffled through an unruly crowd, you must fight hard indeed for his "independence of solitude." To attain it is denied, perhaps, to most of us but to approximate it at least is possible for all--possible by a continual struggle in which a formal education is but the opening round. There is no retreat to a pastoral life for most of us, physical solitude is impossible, an unlettered independence of mind almost inconceivable; but in spite of the complexities of this century the solitude of which Emerson spoke is still within our sight...