Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy last week honored a sailorman who had dared to think out loud. Giving up his last command (of the Norfolk Naval District) and preparing to retire after 42 years of service, Rear Admiral Joseph Knefler Taussig received 1) a formal commendation from the Secretary of the Navy, 2) notice that on retirement he will be promoted to Vice Admiral...
...Connie Mack, 78-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, whose formal schooling stopped in high school, was made a Doctor of Physical Education by Pennsylvania Military College...
Anne Bullitt, motherless little rich girl who presided as first lady at the gloomy U.S. Embassy in Moscow back in 1934, was introduced to grown-up Washington society last week, will make her formal debut at Philadelphia on the 27th. Heiress to the Philadelphia Bullitt fortune, sophisticated beyond her years from Embassy life with father in Moscow and Paris, "finished" at Foxcroft, she is a dark-haired beauty in her own right...
...delegates to this first North American Ecumenical (interchurch) Conference represented every major Protestant and Orthodox communion in the Western Hemisphere, some 35 denominations in all. They passed no resolutions, came to no formal conclusions. But in their speeches and the reports of their discussion groups they affirmed a sweeping set of principles which presupposes a new society as clearly as those adopted last winter by the Church of England's great Malvern Conference (TIME...
...minded Chicago couple who sent leftover wedding invitations to assorted bigwigs they didn't know, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée du Pont sent formal regrets, a solid silver coffee urn, creamer, and sugar bowl...