Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henderson will use his new powers in the same selective way he used his jaw. So far he has fixed only three formal retail ceilings (flashlights, tires and retreads, new cars), and he will probably continue to specialize in key wholesale and factory prices...
Rousseau, pioneer of modern amateurs, died 31 years ago. In the years since his death, collectors have rummaged through attics, farmhouses, junk shops, looking for work of other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm...
First Claude Wickard, the farmers' friend, blasted more-than-parity prices in a speech in Atlanta, sent farm prices skidding. Two days later, the President issued a formal statement about the price bill he had just signed. Said he: "I am requesting the departments of the Government possessing commodities to make such commodities available to other departments in order to aid our war effort. This request, primarily, will affect the cotton stocks of the Commodity Credit Corp. and will permit such stocks to be utilized, directly or by exchange, in the production of war goods. . . . The request will also...
...even Congress can bring back the heady policy-making SEC of Kennedy, Landis, Douglas, Frank. Career Man Purcell envisions a few war-policy jobs: he hopes to sit on whatever interdepartmental committee takes formal control of priorities on capital funds. After the war, he foresees a major readjustment job for SEC, administering capital priorities in reverse. But the Commission's chief job, now and henceforward, is less exciting. Keeping the U.S. financial stables clean is no longer an Augean task. It requires, not a Hercules, but a smart and well-trained staff of janitors...
Without the aid of a crystal ball, mental telepathy, or any other clairvoyant device, Philip H. Thayer '45 of Waban and Apley Court last night won a number-guessing contest held in the Union, and was awarded a free ticket to the Leverett House Winter Formal dance by the Bunny Hop Committee...