Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Formal adult education involving any form of school discipline has never appealed to the grown-ups of any nation. But U. S. adults have long been gluttons for any form of education provided they can choose its subject, take it or leave it, play it as a sort of game in which every one can win by giving himself a higher rating than he gives to his contemporaries. Hence among best sellers not of a year but of a generation, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and Emily Post's Etiquette rate close to the Bible. According...
...Corn-on-the-cob may now be eaten (neatly) at a formal dinner, an entire ear in both hands. Cigarets at the dinner table are all right but Mrs. Post still does not approve...
...City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
...situation confronting the petroleum companies." Fear that the U. S. $200,000,000 oil interests, the U. S. $500,000,000 mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...
...Their organized groups, called "meetings," are spotted irrelevantly over the map of the world. Largest is the London Yearly Meeting, with 20,000 members. Next in size is the Five Year Meeting of Indiana, located near Richmond, Ind. with 16,000 members who differ from most Quakers in having formal services with paid pastors. The combined Race Street and Arch Street Meetings of Philadelphia (15,000) are now practically reunited, after having been respectively Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers as a result of a schism a century ago.* Next largest are the Africa Eastern Group (7,000), the Madagascar Yearly Meeting...