Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, where he had futilely opposed John J. Bennett in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, the President found himself in a dilemma. Now that primary bygones were bygones, Franklin Roosevelt desperately wanted Democrat Bennett to win over Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Three weeks ago, he formally plumped for Bennett's election. But Republican Dewey still led in the straw polls, Democrat Bennett was a poor second; and the American Labor Party, formerly a boon to the New Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett...
After navigating the examinations the officers will pass in review at Soldiers Field, climaxing 60 days of intensive instruction in Naval traditions, administration, courtesy, terminology, and officers' duties. Evening will bring the formal ball in the Stailer Main Ballroom, with Ruby Newman's orchestra swinging and Bill Robinson as featured high-spot...
...Unlike formal portraits, in the robes that make the Court seem eternally changeless, this one illustrated sharply its clean-shaven youthfulness (average age: 56 years, compared with 71 for the 1936 Court) and such nonjudicial phenomena as Associate Justice William O. Douglas' five-gallon...
...five cheerleaders, lately reduced from seven are hampered by the conditions necessary for a formal cheer which can only be given when there is a time out or between quarters. It a formal cheer is given at any other time, Drucker said, "the stands are too busy watching the progress of the game to give a really good cheer...
...These men are taking courses with the regular Business School students, who are required to have had an A.B. degree," he said, stressing the possibility that, if the teaching problems involved are solved, there might emerge from this experiment a whole new conception of education based on ability, without formal prerequisites...