Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore obliged," wrote President Coolidge last week, reverting, after some 5,500 more emphatic words, to the formal executive monotone, "to return Senate Bill 3555 . . . without my ap-proval...
...that he understood, hung up, donned resplendent attire, and fairly strutted to the residence of Provincial Governor Stumpf. There, like a sparrow chirping for an eagle, he voiced the fairly temperate demands of II Duce: 1) Austria to supply a new flag; 2) Austrian soldiers to salute it; 3) Formal apology. Gruff Governor Stumpf, stumped, wired to Chancellor & Foreign Minister of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag had been torn down, it was replaced and saluted by 30 Austrian soldiers, while Consul...
...letter, if authentic, establishes the disputed fact that the $2,000,000 raid was personally carried out by General Sandino as a formal act of militancy against the people & government...
...academic year 1928-1929 will see the College of Arts and Sciences of Cornell University adopt a pre-examination discontinuance of formal class attendance which is patterned upon the Harvard Reading Period. The arrangement at Cornell is variously modified to make the offspring more conservative than the parent. Their hereditary similarities appear in the resolution of the Cornell faculty...
...That for the academic year of 1928-1929, formal instruction (including class exercises and laboratories) may be discontinued one week before term examinations begin, it being understood that the members of the faculty will be available for consultation at the regular hours designated for class instruction, and that an examination or equivalent exercise shall be required of all students during the examination period...