Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the knowledge but not the formal approval of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter, letters were being circulated by the Christian A. Herter-for-President-in-Case-Eisenhower-Doesn't-Run Club...
...This situation can be partly alleviated by breaking down the formal ranking system used in most colleges and schools. Under this system good men are discouraged, and enter higher paying industries which promise rapid advancement. What is needed is individual creativity, not trade union seniority," she said...
Last week, as he moved through the maze of flowery welcomes and formal functions that are the lot of leaders of friendly nations on state visits to the U.S., Batlle Berres found time to do a bit of plain talking...
...member of the first group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard in 1938, Reporter Lahey used the year to round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, and other faculty members who delighted in the newsman's flair for deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point...
Although a college degree has been the only formal requirement for admission to the Law School for 60 years, Grisweld said that increasing numbers of applicants might force the School to accept only the most broadly trained...