Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claiming to have received a letter from General Franco in which he used the words, "Your obedient servant kisses your foot." Then TIME adds: "To General Franco, who is a married man, this may have proved embarrassing." Error. It is an ancient and courtly Spanish custom to terminate a formal letter to a lady thus...
...ever, a member of the Communist Party or of any of its affiliated or oppositionist groups. I am not now, and never have been directly or indirectly connected with a Communist, Socialist or any other revolutionary Left-wing faction in either a formal or an informal...
...professional or technical in character but is concerned rather with an effort to supplement the teaching of the theory of design by practical applications. The students develop designs in three dimensions from various materials in order that they may become acquainted with the actual processes by which formal values are given to materials and to constructions...
...studying the behavior of complex electrical systems, it is frequently desirable to solve algebraic equations of the seventh or eighth degree-that is, equations containing terms raised to the seventh or eighth power. It is impossible to obtain formal, exact solutions of equations higher than the fourth degree. Approximate numerical solutions of equations of the fifth degree and up can be arrived at by laborious trial & error, trying one value, then another, and so on until a value is found which approximately fits the mathematical statement...
...last month they b came even more closely related when the Interstate Commerce Commission permitted C. & O. to take direct control of the Erie by acquiring the 50% of Erie stock held by C. & 0. owned Virginia Transportation Corp. and Alleghany Corp. But, as was proved last week, formal adoption by a rich uncle did not put a silver spoon into Erie's mouth...