Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last month some 40 people gathered in the large, old-fashioned pent house apartment of Mrs. Hugh Bullock in Manhattan for the most trying occasion in the literary life - a poetry reading. They were publishers, editors, critics, poets, a few patrons of poetry. They heard the first formal reading of the first poem in many years by Russell Wheeler Daven port, 45, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, best known as the close associate of the late Wendell Willkie in the Presidential campaign of 1940. Davenport began...
...Nothing is more conducive to long-winded and stilted writing than the use of a formal, pedantic or polysyllabic substitute for the natural word or expression that first comes to mind. There will be occasions, relatively rare, when they will be wanted, quite legitimately, to convey a different shade of meaning. They should never be used simply because it is thought they sound more official, more formal more stylish or more impressive than their everyday equivalents...
...there were almost no parades, and on the way from station to hotel the Dewey motorcade often drove through near-silent streets. When Dewey made one of his rare back-platform appearances, he only repeated what he had already said in formal speeches. But, in contrast to the Willkie campaign, correspondents had a chance, every day, to question the candidate at a press conference...
...place of pre-war Harvard H's, will be awarded for intercollegiate competition in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and track. Absent from the list are the swimming, wrestling, golf, fencing, and hockey teams, which have not engaged in any form of intercollegiate competition since formal athletics were discontinued in the spring...
...sooner had the Yugoslavs explained than up popped another problem. Both London's Polish Government in Exile and the Moscow-sponsored National Committee of Liberation in Lublin made formal application for relief on behalf of Poland. At UNRRA's last meeting in Montreal a fortnight ago, delegates from the London Poles had sat unhappily silent, under strict instructions to say nothing and do nothing to rock the boat. Now a major issue was out in the open. Theoretically it was up to UNRRA's Big Three (the U.S., Britain and Russia) for settlement. Actually the final decision...