Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board of Directors of the Center declared yesterday morning in a formal statement that the Center was "not founded by a decree of the Archbishop and will not be dissolved by such a decree...
Aside from the fact that there's enough money on the table to keep the hot air coming for quite a while, the implications raised by the "crusade" are serious already. These are both formal--as they affect the legislative bodies--and informal, as they have warped non-legislative opinion and action...
...Flight Test Division, most of them based at Wright Field, have the highest prestige of any group in the peacetime Air Force. Slim, unshakably calm Colonel Albert Boyd, 42, chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what a test pilot will be asked...
There are areas of political and economic operation where public opinion may not hamper formal relations with Russia. But there could come a point where national psychology would be the determining factor between war and peace. Continuation of the present style of reporting can boost our national attitude way off balance at the end of a springboard. It's a high board, and below...
...started the Saturday night the Harvard Rugby Club arrived. Pan-American Airways, the driving host of the tourist trade, was holding a Welcome-Farewell formal ball at the Elbow Beach Surf Club. Some collegians, it seems, were leaving, and some were arriving; PAA were killing two birds with one stone. Refreshments, however, were not on the house...