Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize winning "price peace plan", according to the formal announcement of the competition, must cover a definite alley for the retailer, the jobber, the manufacturer, the chain store and the department store. It must include consideration of "free goods" and "hidden discount" problems. The workability and the legality of the plans, either under existing law or desirable modification, will be the chief criterions on which the judges will base their decision...
...Bernstein himself conducted a party of pressmen and notables on the night of the formal opening. He, a Manhattan Jew whose fine necktie bore witness to his shrewdness, explained that, in order to cater to that sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph...
Such rigid discipline of sentences produced by tricky parentheses and binding clauses has not met with favor in a liberal world. Rightly enough, the leaders of college composition have rejected the goose-step construction for the more informal expressions of thought. There seems little danger of a formal invasion of college literature, or conversation...
...twilight zone of the abstract where we keep ideas that would be good if they could be made to work. In an article published in the Century Magazine, Alexander Mciklejohn tentatively suggested that we might find our way out of the confused wilderness of unrelated specialisms, not by any formal synthesis of modern knowledge in a curriculum but by devoting the freshman year to the comprehensive study of a single historic episode such as the Greek civilization, setting the freshmen to reading the literature of that period and, under the friendly guidance and stimulation of a faculty...
Host. Tranquil, intellectual Ahmed Fuad, Sultan of Egypt, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, extended formal hospitality to the Califate Congress, but entertained no credulous hopes that he is likely to become temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam should the Conference indorse his claims. Though the British "protectorate" over Egypt terminated in 1922, Britain will tolerate no uprisings in Egypt which might threaten the Suez Canal -"the route to India...