Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blockade. Next step of the Japanese was to declare a blockade of the Chinese coast from Shanghai almost to Hongkong. At first Japan announced that the blockade would be aimed only against Chinese shipping. Few days later, still without formal declaration of war, Japan went one better, threatened that U. S., British and other foreign ships would also be searched for contraband if they put in at Chinese ports. Despite this neither London nor Washington put down a firm foot even when the British freighter Shengking, on its way to evacuate refugees from Shanghai, was questioned by a Japanese warship...
Featured on the schedule Registration Day is the formal opening of the Union at a buffet supper. President Conant will preside...
...Union that most of the social events of the Freshman year take place: tea dances after one or more of the football games in the Fall, smokers, with vaudeville or other entertainment, the Jubilee, or formal dance, in the Spring, series of lectures, debating meetings, and various other gatherings...
Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...
Meanwhile the only immediate result of the promiscuous slaughter in Shanghai was that Japanese diplomatic and consular offices were ordered evacuated from China's capital, Nanking. No one in Tokyo, however, would admit that this presaged a formal declaration of war, a technical gesture now outmoded because it is apt to lead to international complications and to charges that treaties have been broken...