Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he formally placed Harry Hopkins in charge of "the great task." The move was purely formal, having been indicated for many weeks (TIME, March 10), but only then did conservatives wake up to the fact that Harry Lloyd Hopkins, harness maker's son from Grinnell, Iowa, had become, in effect, Assistant President of the U.S. The tall, bony, sagacious welfare worker got a job the Senate need not be asked to confirm; the President told the press that his best friend would have no powers, only duties; and Hopkins turned down a salary for this work...
...Reserve Officers' training camp. The Freshman dormitories were used a barracks, while administrative offices were lodged in the basement of University Hall. Dean Briggs stated on April 6, "Because of the declaration of war, the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has decided to give up all formal intercollegiate contests until further notice." The whole College was in an uproar, since no one knew exactly what was going to happen. By the end of May, enrollment in Harvard was down to 400, and dwindling fast. Finances, however, were not affected, since "men who have voluntarily given up their...
...ship a candidate is trained in the practical conduct of a craft's operation. He attends a formal series of lectures on gunnery, navigation, engineering, and seamanship. Mastering these fundamentals, he puts his knowledge to practice and gains actual experience...
...After formal greetings had been exchanged between Charles Francis Adams '88 president of the Overseers and Rector J. Gordon Bohannan of William and Mary, the Overseers held their first meeting in the Blue Room of the historic Christopher Wren Chapel. Later in the day the group again assembled in the restored House of Burgesses of Virginia's colonial capital...
During the intervals between the formal events of the program, the Overseers will visit the restoration of historic buildings and neighboring places of interest...