Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heads, Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha of Egypt and nine other Egyptian delegates marched down the aisle of the League of Nations' new Geneva palace last week to bow stiffly before Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, temporary President of the League Assembly. The occasion was the formal admission of Egypt as the 61st nation to become a full-fledged member of the League. Most graceful of the 20 speeches of welcome came from Britain's dandified Anthony Eden...
...this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed to their telephones to get in touch with their home capitals...
...Next to formal portraits, Britons love sporting pictures best. Prolific Alfred J. Munnings, whom even the most hothouse esthetes admit to be a great artist, shrewdly combined both with a picture of sanctified George V riding in plus fours and gaiters on his favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates...
...sized, having 63 concentrators, and is considered about the easiest in the College. The department is characterized by brilliant researchers, and poor tutoring. Since the subject is an inexact science, credit is given on examinations for original thought, making it still simpler to get by with a minimum of formal work. But pseudo-psychologists are warned that unless they have a real interested in the research possibilities of this growing subject, they will have a lonely and neglected academic three years...
...among students and others is to prove that an individual may continue his education throughout life by disciplined reading on an informal basis, according to President James B. Conant who initiated the plan. It is an attempt to counteract the idea that the only road to knowledge lies through formal instruction in regular college courses...