Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Einstein took the entrance examinations for the Polytechnicum in Zurich, Switzerland. He failed, but got in a year later. At Zurich he completed his formal scientific education, became fast friends with the Austrian Socialist leader, political assassin and physicist, Friedrich Adler...
This still leaves an immense backlog, however, for since January 7, 1,718 applicants have filled out formal requests for room space and another 627 have filed applications for future housing for the coming summer and fall terms. This staggering total means that despite its impressive record the Housing Bureau still has more veterans waiting than it has settled in the last five months. New applications are pouring in daily, Hathaway declared...
When 231 officers of the Navy Supply Corps School are graduated in Potter Auditorium tomorrow, and Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, USN (Ret.) Officer-in-Charge, symbolizes discontinuance of the school by a formal presentation of the school's colors to Business School Dean Donald K. David, the University will have seen all but the last of the 60,000 officers and men it has trained during the past five years...
When both of Tom Bolles' eights swept across the finish line better than four lengths ahead of Yale on the Charles Saturday, the Crimson's first formal season of racing since 1943 was automatically insured against being labelled a flop. Now, no matter what happens in the forthcoming regatta on Lake Washington June 22, and despite what was at best a spotty record before the Eli race, the big question that makes the difference in any Harvard athletics--"did you beat Yale?"-- will have the right answer...
...Queen wore a thistle tarn on a visit to the royal farms at Windsor with agricultural conference delegates. The Princess, in a radio talk that foreshadowed her adult responsibilities, denied that the empire was "built by cunning," put it thus: "The empire has grown like a garden, not a formal garden . . . but one that makes use of nature for its beauty, of the sort that used to be known abroad as an English garden...