Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vital question raised in this article is whether the conventional course can be entirely discarded, and if possible whether such a step is after all advisable. The very nature of the proposition, as the writer clearly points out, implies that practically all instruction would be individual, since formal class meetings would be done away with. The difficulty of securing an adequate supply of instructors with the proper qualifications, something absolutely essential to the success of the system, is a serious obstacle to its materialization. Moreover, the expense herein entailed makes the possibility of its introduction on a large scale still...
...continental U. S. has little more than 1,300 formal airports and landing fields properly lighted and marked, although about 900 more are proposed and 4,000 casual ones exist (lots owned by municipalities, corporations, clubs, commissions and individuals). California has the most good fields, 143. Texas has 101, Pennsylvania 83, Ohio 62, Illinois 60, Oklahoma 46, New York 43, Iowa...
...blot out the Mason-and-Dixon line and show the world that Dixie wants all sectional strife and hatred to fade away during the Hoover Administration." Conference veterans will appear in the inaugural parade in Washington a fortnight hence. This is the first instance when a formal invitation to participate in the inauguration ceremonies has been extended to the United Confederate Veterans...
...maneuver this meeting, but John J. Raskob snatched it from their greedy fingers. Eleven o'clock at Belle Isle was the hour. Smith skipped his breakfast to make it on time. With care he picked his Mtire?silk-faced cutaway, striped trousers, silk-topped patent leather button shoes, semi-formal overcoat with velvet collar. One hand picked up a cane; the other put a cigar in a mouth corner. The Brown Derby, above all, was set at an undefeated angle. Away streaked the baby-blue Rolls-Royce, minus any hooting police-escort. Cushioned snugly at Mr. Smith's 'elbows were...
Round 14. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., aroused, in Ormond Beach, Fla., issued his first formal public statement in ten years. In the diplomatic third person, he pronounced false any reports that he was not heart and soul with his son. "It has been an unpleasant duty for him [the son], but one which in all good conscience he could not shirk," said Father Rockefeller...