Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though known to inquisitive record collectors through a few recordings of curiously wailing, syncopated spirituals,† Mitchell's Christian Singers had never before sung at a formal concert. Their spirituals were sung with touching solemnity, and with the intensity and abandon of hot jazz. Both jitterbugs and highbrows heartily approved them...
...part of East Prussia, was detached from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, was taken by Lithuania in 1923. The port of Memel, with 38.545 inhabitants, contains iron foundries, ship-building yards, breweries, chemical plants. Because it is the country's only developed outlet to the sea, its formal appropriation by Germany would be almost irreparable to Lithuania. But Lithuania had some friends left, however ineffective. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the French and British Embassies in Berlin had been instructed to express the official hope that the German Government "will...
During the past year, nine newspaper men who have had at least three years of experience in their work have been studying here under the Nieman plan. Formal course instruction has not been the keynote, but merely contributes toward a program of seminars, private reading, and informal discussion with teacher and students...
Until March 1, applications will be coming in from all parts of the country. While there are no actual stipulations as to age or formal education, all applicants are expected to have spent at least three years in journalistic work. Recipients of the fellowship awards will be studying during a leave of absence from their papers...
...formal statement the plan's sponsors, nucleus of The Independents, said: "We feel that our campaign at this time is a necessary complement to the worthy drive now being conducted in behalf of German refugee students...