Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now the big problem is the availability of practice ice and the limited training time. Daily calisthenic workouts are now going on at the Blockhouse, but formal icework cannot start until Tuesday. Most of the skaters, however, are getting in semi-weekly informal practices at their own expense at the Boston Skating Club. Ice time is so scarce that they have had to be content with before-breakfast and after-midnight hours...
...movie industry was perforce to be cut off from its theaters, RKO's Howard Hughes wanted to make the operation as painless as possible. While the rest of the industry awaited court action on the Department of Justice's demand for a formal separation of picture-making and picture-showing (TIME, Oct. 11), Hughes last week got his RKO directors to authorize a voluntary agreement with the Government's trustbusters. This was the first break in Hollywood's united front against the Department of Justice...
...Formal organization of an Ivy League in football was advocated yesterday by the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine...
...existence of formal leagues in basketball, baseball, hockey, track, swimmis, tennis, and soccer has enhanced the prestige of these sports, the incentive of the players, and the interest of spectators, the Dartmouth magazine said...
Advantages to be derived from a formal football league would also include regularization of scholastic entrance requirements and eligibility rules for "young men of sterling moral character, who, fortuitously, can also do things to or with a football," and more serious attention to related problems of scholastic aid for academically qualified athletes. Organization would also bring more orderly arrangement of schedules and an incentive to college football in the growing competition with professionals...