Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ex-G.I.s have been joining the Trappists that the Abbey at Valley Falls is overcrowded. The order has bought an 800-acre valley ranch in northern New Mexico, announced the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Clarence Schoeppner, chancellor of the archdiocese of Santa Fe. Two Trappists would take formal possession this week...
...that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used in one way in formal writing, in another way in pulpit oratory ... in the courtroom ... in private conversation . . in the ballpark [and] the public forum . . . The students need to learn the appropriate word in the appropriate level of usage...
...formal statement of its position, the Grad Council--student council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--asserted that "Memorial Hall, the Harvard Union, and Memorial Church are individual memorials, and it seems appropriate that if a plaque is to be erected, it be placed in its own building...
...kickoff time, 75,000 individuals will jam the huge Bowl for the first "formal" New Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...
Everyone was madly trading clothes. You can't wear something your date has seen on such a big weekend Mary hacked off a green formal so that she could have that new-look length. And little Peg borrowed a skirt a size too large so that it would be long enough. Sally asked me if she could borrow my formal which is the kind you can wear without pressing...