Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal scientific explanation of the X-rays' effects on eggs is now being prepared by Professor W. R. Graham of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph...
...that Mrs. Coolidge had not enjoyed the White House. "They all do," says a perennial White House servant who has seen four First Ladies come and go. But the sheer physical tax is tremendous-long formal receptions; bi-weekly informal receptions (instituted by Mrs. Coolidge); luncheons with the Ladies of the Senate (a carry-over from Second Lady days); posing for photographs; laying cornerstones, visiting hospitals, remembering to send flowers, answering mail. Mrs. Coolidge's mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule...
More interesting to voters, however, than any of these subjects, was Mr. Raskob's inauguration of the great political game of Claiming States. First of the Big Four to begin the game in a formal way, Mr. Raskob made his beginning a bold one. It takes 266 electoral votes to elect the President. Mr. Raskob said that "any reasonably prudent businessman would, at this time," classify 27 States, with 309 electoral votes, in the Smith-Robinson column. He named his claims as follows...
...contest that rocked the copper mining area of Montana a generation ago came to a formal close yesterday with the sale of the mineral, timber and banking properties of the late Senator W. A. Clark to the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. . . . The Butte Miner, a newspaper owned by the Clark interests which played a part in the past struggles, also was sold...
...Involuntarily the question arises what were the English seeking in our territorial waters in 1919? Without any formal declaration of war they attacked us, sank our ships and bombarded our forts. The English monitor Erebus frequently fired her 15-in. guns at our fort, Red Hill. The English broke into our house by the right of might to kill the workers and peasants and to turn back the wheel of revolution...