Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seasoned in the Congressional climate, he may open the flowers of his rhetoric. So the custom of the maiden speech has arisen, and last week one of the three ladies of the House, elected more than a year ago and present in Congress since last December, spoke forth in formal words for the first time?and her first words were a reproach. She was Mrs. Julius (Florence) Kahn, whose late husband was one of the military experts of the House. Speaker Longworth graciously introduced...
Speaking of the coming International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, April 5, p. 22) you say, "The formal host of the Congress is the American Philosophical Society." You have made a pardonable confusion between the American Philosophical Society and the American Philosophical Association. The former was founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1744. In that age, a "philosophical" society was one devoted to all the special sciences, including the mathematical, the physical and the biological. The Society founded by Franklin still covers this wide field, and still meets in Philadelphia. The American Philosophical Association, on the other hand...
Secretary Kellogg despatched from Washington last week a formal rejection of the invitation extended by the Council of the League of Nations to the U. S. (TIME, March 29), requesting the presence of a U. S. representative at Geneva on Sept. 1, to attend a conference of the Court-adherent nations, at which the U. S. Senate's announced conditions (TiME, Feb. 8, CONGRESS) for U. S. adherence to the World Court might be discussed...
...Since the close of the "World War," the "Last War," the "War to End War," not a single year has passed without a first class war. Thus far, the 20th Century has experienced only one year tolerably free from formal warfare...
...second competition for the business board of the CRIMSON open to the class of 1929 will begin next Monday evening, according to an announcement made by the business manager yesterday. The competition will have its formal beginning with a meeting for all candidates, to be held in the CRIMSON Building at 7 o'clock on that night...