Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paramount objects would be, he said, first to put through revision of the Dawes Plan, and thereafter to secure final ratification by Parliament of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, between France and the U. S. When M. Poincaré had spoken, a cheering Chamber gave his Cabinet a formal vote of confidence...
...formal Student Council committee to draw up specific suggestions or to sound undergraduate opinion was appointed. It was decided to leave the piston for individual discussion, Council members being urged to bring forward any recommendations or objections that might come to their attention in conversation with undergraduates...
...until the second Wednesday in February will the Hoover election be officially recorded by the formal counting of the votes of the Electoral College. Nevertheless, early on Nov. 7, Herbert Hoover & family were taken into safe-keeping by the Federal Secret Service. Chief William H. Moran presented himself at Palo Alto to acquaint the Hoovers with his plans for their protection. Two detectives followed the President-elect's first postelection stroll with Mrs. Hoover...
...planning to use the films merely to round out the material offered in a more formal manner Professor Burkhard has made a wise decision. The views of beautiful Germany will make more convincing the impassioned descriptions of Rhenish scenery which occur so frequently throughout Germanic literature and which by their very reiteration often arouse an incident skepticism in the un travelled student. Perhaps more difficult to grasp than the appearance of the country position of the student to interpret side of a nation is an understanding of the nature of its people. A language as difficult for the average American...
...industrial reporter of the already venerable Cincinnati Gazette covered the Grasselli Chemical Co.'s formal opening in 1839, he might have learned that Founder Eugene Grasselli's family had been chemists for 400 years, since first they made gunpowder and perfume in Torno, Italy. He could not have learned, however, that the company would move to Cleveland after the Civil War. and would there prosper mightily producing fertilizers, zinc metal, zinc dust, explosives, aspirin, until finally, under Grandson Thomas Saxton Grasselli, it would have 22 factories and assets...