Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekend had been something that didn't happen to most people, and Vag knew that it couldn't happen again to him--not unless he started growing younger every year. Vag was literal-minded enough to rule out this odd chance. The letter under his hand was only a formal little period to an occasion that had ended two days before. He wondered why he'd written it, now that he thought it over. The letter didn't lead on to anything else. Social habit, maybe. No. And people didn't write bread and butter notes when there...
...Mexico City, student demonstrators were smashing windows in the German Club, and leftist radicals "stormed" the Deutsches Haus. The Stalinists hastened to make political hay: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, President of the shadowy "Confederation of Workers of Latin America," wrote President Manuel Avila Camacho demanding that Mexico instantly declare formal war on the Axis and seize all Axis citizens' property; the leaders of the Stalinist-controlled C.T.M., biggest Mexican labor federation, demanded...
...those who don't relish the idea of attending classes four times a week, many of the present facilities for organized sports will be available. With all formal intercollegiate competition blocked by the war, emphasis will be placed on House sports...
...Biddie's charge of sedition against the paper, and dared the Government to call him to the witness stand. But last week he did not even show up to defend his second-class mailing privileges. Instead he wired meekly to Postmaster General Frank Walker saying he "approved" the formal promise of Social Justice that it would go out of business...
...blue-fish,, bread crisp like a cracker, chocolate and fruit." The words "spiritual" and "immoral" did not exist in their vocabulary. In lieu of the chameleon word "love" they talked (just a bit tediously) of apia (sexual desire) and ania (a high regard "justifying the physical"). They had no formal philosophy, little interest in abstract thought; they practiced a hedonism tempered with kindliness...