Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South China after three months of the most ferocious verbal strife between the Nanking Government and Kwangsi Province, with a formal military ultimatum being issued every few days by Premier Chiang to the Kwangsi generals or vice versa, sudden peace came this week. Instead of Generalissimo Chiang arriving in Canton with overwhelming force to master Kwangsi, he persuaded Kwangsi General Li Tsung-Jen to assume the office of Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running...
...this year are likely to take more.* Put into effect in New York State as the safe drivers departed was a set of stringent new penalties for speeding or reckless driving. Sample: $100 fine for first offense, $250 for second. This promptly scared the Automobile Manufacturers Association into a formal resolution asking members to stop advertising the top speeds of their automobiles...
...Berlin one morning last week, brisk and rich little French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet was invited to the Wilhelmstrasse, cordially received by large and wealthy German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and handed a most welcome communication. This was Germany's formal adherence to the embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Spain (TIME, Aug. 17) which was originally proposed by the new French Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash...
...Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios, it is disgraceful! Diablo! It is un dignified! ... I like hot dogs - no, I must say I adore them! But you do not give me hot dogs when I am invited to a formal dinner. No respect for the artist...
...schools which confer the degree of Doctor of Optometry, seven require three years of study; three (Ohio State, University of Southern California, Columbia) demand four years. Opticians are simply craftsmen who make lenses and mountings, or tradesmen who sell them, or both. For them no formal training is required, but they are unlikely to prosper if they lack skill and experience...