Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next month. It was an- nounced at the White House that the President would not be able to go to Texas for the celebration at El Paso of the 75th anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase.? Instead he will probably make a trip to Cincinnati and Louisville for the formal opening of locks on the Ohio River. Oct. 21 he is due in Detroit to help Henry Ford and the Edison Pioneers celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb...
Seemingly considering that he had done a good week's work in obtaining the lukewarm informal acquiescence of 27 nations. Prime Minister Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel on the coast of Normandy for a brief vacation. "I shall probably take a short sea trip in a very small yacht," he said, "the smaller the better, for the sea was my first love...
...exactly educated, speaks no language except Russian, has to look up places like "Portugal" in a dog-eared atlas. He knows well enough that General Bubnov was expelled from the Moscow School of Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education since. More important in the Dictator's eyes is the fact that Bubnov fought valiantly as a commander of guerrilla bands during the Red Revolution, swashbuckled himself into the Supreme Military Council (General Staff), and is sufficiently literate to have edited for several years the Soviet Army's propaganda...
...years"; 2) During this period specified Argentine purchase of £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) worth of British manufactured goods will be balanced by specified British purchases of Argentine foodstuffs and raw materials of an equal value; 3) Details of the agreement were withheld, pending a formal and joint announcement by both Governments, but it was meagerly stated without explanation that the Argentine products to be bought by Britain would be "purchased through the usual channels," and that the British goods to be bought by Argentina would be "chiefly for railways and public works...
...only an ephemeral experiment. The act of faith in founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without any specialized education, were seeking business careers, where only a generation ago they were entering the older professions. There was dawning...