Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before its formal opening, the Ohio Turnpike held records. It is the longest stretch of superhighway ever completed at one time; of all the major postwar U.S. turnpike projects, it is the first ever finished entirely on schedule and within its cost estimates. Unexpectedly, the Turnpike Commission ended up with money to spare, although construction ran to $1,350,000 per mile (seeding grass alone cost...
Then, as Sihanouk's articulate voice blared greetings from loudspeakers on pagoda rooftops, platoons of "congressmen," their credentials in order, congregated around the palace's ballet theater. The meeting was more in the nature of a mass rally than a formal legislative conclave, but Sihanouk, whose party had swept the last election (TIME, Sept. 26), thought it the best way to let his countrymen suggest laws and reforms. The crowd approved several constitutional changes proposed by the ex-King. One severed Cambodia's last legal bond of allegiance to France by striking from the constitution the words...
...Department of Athletics' version of co-education will begin this Monday on Watson Rink with the start of formal figure skating lessons open to Radcliffe and Harvard undergraduates, it was announced yesterday...
...addition, Morse said that he has formulated a proposal calling for international action to abolish forced labor. He will present his plan, he said, for consideration at the annual ILO general conference in Geneva next June. Beyond stating that opposition to slave labor should be implemented in a formal worldwide convention, Morse declined to elaborate on his plan...
Seven days ago, with only two formal practices behind them, McCurdy's harriers outran Massachusetts. In defeating Boston University on Wednesday of this week, the team put on a performance which the coach described as "one of the best displays of running I have ever seen...