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Word: formality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back Talk. First, Labor's Hugh Gaitskell tried to turn Britain's recent financial settlement with Nasser into a formal censure of the 1956 Suez invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were others involved, and they were not ill." Jabbing his finger at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Gaitskell cried: "I believe that the guilty men are sitting there on those benches. It is time that they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Labor's Bad Week | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Three poet-representatives of the socalled "beat generation" made their first formal visit to the University community last night in New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Harvard Law School Forum and the newly formed Harvard Poetry Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatniks Corso, Ginsberg Howl Before New Lec Crowd | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

Many of the black and white prints are genre studies, impishly comic or decorative, such as the delightful Autumn. This sort of divertissment is amusing and impresses the viewer with its formal cohesion. These qualities, Occidental aspects of Munakata's art, are almost entirely missing from Visiting in Evening, the simplest, most "Japanese" print of the exhibit. With its understatement and perfect balancing, the print testifies to Munakata's complete mastery of the conventional techniques of his country...

Author: By Clay Modelling, | Title: Shiko Munakata | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...Although only 50 years old, the history of science as a formal academic discipline is growing and increasing in importance," he commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Butterfield Speaks of Importance Of Scientific Revolution in History | 3/25/1959 | See Source »

...much whom he sees as how he sees them. After his formal audience with the Swiss Guards, the Pope settled down with them for a cup of tea. "We see each other every day," he said, "but we never get a chance to talk-you because of discipline and I because of protocol. It's about time we got better acquainted." He told the motorcycle cops: "Frankly, I would rather do without you. But you and I are both subject to rules and regulations, and we must try to make the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Old Man | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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