Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pale, saturnine Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, educated at the University of Pennsylvania. All his life he wanted to be a painter, but virtually his only formal education in the arts was a few lessons on the saxophone. Serious critics have praised his work, night-club proprietors have admired his murals, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett have bought his paintings...
Large national manufacturing companies frequently employ recent college graduates to train for sales work. This training, lasting from three months to two years, may be formal or informal. Prospective salesmen learn about the products of the company by actual work in the factory, and also something of company merchandising policy and sales correspondence in the general sales office: sales instruction they receive in the field under senior salesmen...
...formal Yearling Shells...
...Haines, Freshman mentor, says he will not make up a first and second crew until he has had a chance to look over all possible aspirants in the Leviathan. This will prevent him from going out in the coaching launch until Thursday or Friday, and until that time a formal first boat will not be selected...
...days later, a committee of strikers retired to a Long Beach, Calif, butcher shop, put in a call to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in Washington. Though she was at a formal Cabinet dinner for President Roosevelt, she went at once to a telephone booth in her evening gown, began to argue. Hour later, the strikers agreed to return to the California, await negotiation of their case in Manhattan. Said Madam Secretary Perkins next day: "You can imagine what I looked like when I walked out of that telephone booth...