Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration (now head of the Air Transport Association) and the late Howard Vickery, Commission vice chairman. They had often told shipbuilders to go ahead and build ships, with contracts to come along later. They had shifted material, men, and contracts by phone rather than formal letter, had kept much of the bookkeeping in their heads. No one denied that it was a wasteful way to build ships and highly expensive to the taxpayer, but the methods had got ships when needed...
...injects enough jaunty wit in 100 minutes to make up for years of freekle-faced 2nd lieutenants and monosyllabic bathing beauties. From a first knowing look down to an inspired performance vending napkins to emissaries of the western nations at the Bangkok version of a formal dinner, the picture is his. Thus it is that "Anna and The King of Siam" take their place as one of those rare pairs who can close a picture with interest, virtue, and without love...
Rose said that he would also offer his Pitching Horseshoes free to 100 U.S. papers. He wanted no formal commitments, so he could quit when he got tired of it. But he was obviously nursing a journalistic itch. Wrote he: "The sight of your own words in type is like having your back scratched-and when you get a byline-Rita Hayworth is doing the scratching...
Applications by the spontaneously-formed group for the Dean's consent to use the outdoor rallying place began a week ago and culminated in a formal petition by the whole committee, in person, on Tuesday. Seldom has a group been composed of students more serious in intention or more responsible as heads of various student activities. Seldom has an issue been more important or less controversial in the University community than question of price control. The committee's object was simply to bring out into the open, for the benefit of legislators in Washington, a concrete expression of the latent...
...teachers, like the pupils, were of all kinds. The Russian instructor, a tile-maker by trade, had graduated from a university in Leningrad. Telegraphy was taught by retired Union Pacific operators. Emily herself had not had much formal education and played schoolmistress by ear. She thought it worked: "It's what a person can do and not the letters after a name that ought to count. I would take a teacher with a high-school certificate rather than a master's degree, if she had understanding...