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Word: formality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate knew it. Local politicos knew it. The retinue of reporters knew it. Without formal declaration, Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy launched his all-out campaign for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, as he crossed Wisconsin in a three-Cessna airplane expedition, getting lined up for the critical Wisconsin primary next April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Campaign Opener | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...study of the Freshman Year may well be one of the next large-scale projects of the Committee on Educational Policy. CEP members have shown an increased interest in this problem for several weeks, although formal consideration is still pending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEP May Make Change In First-Year Program | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

This attitude is similar, and perhaps a result of, a third possible cause of the problem: the generally laissez-faire attitude of the Faculty and the administration. Harvard is uniquely fortunate in having an enlightened administration which believes that a part of education as important as formal instruction is the teaching of the student to plan and regulate his own life. The freedom of publications and other organizations to print and say whatever they wish and, within certain minimal boundaries, do whatever they wish is found at few other colleges. It forces upon the Harvard undergraduate a degree of maturity...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Student Representative: Academic Alienation | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...Federation in matters concerning international law. He shall conclude treaties with foreign states on behalf of the Federation. . . ." When Adenauer becomes President he may attempt to expand this power beyond its present ceremonial limits. If he can live long enough, he might transform the Presidency into more than a formal role, and alter the Bonn Republic to a system which lies between the British and the American...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Doubtful Promotion | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

Attached to the formal exhibition are a number of modern German paintings--officially Expressionistic--which are familiar objects about the museum. It pays to take a good look at them after seeing these other works...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Two Modes | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

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