Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday morning a formal reception at William and Mary is planned for the visitors, with an address later by the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88, President of the Board of Overseers. After the regular Board meeting, the Overseers will adjourn to meet in the afternoon at the restored House of Burgesses, the legislative body of the Old Dominion...
...their bargaining agent for Times editorial workers. Difference is that the New York Times does not have a "Guild Shop," whereas the Mirror is now negotiating a union contract which will include such a clause. If it is signed, the Guild contract will bind the Mirror management, "upon formal notice from the Guild," to fire employes for the following reasons: 1) if they do not join the Guild within three months after being hired; 2) if they fall two months behind in dues; 3) if they lose good standing for any other reason. If so fired, the banished Guildsmen...
...smoothed his edge. To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...
During the first 20 years, while their friendship was still somewhat stiff and formal, they wrote a good deal about the law. Even after their friendship mellowed, Pollock stuck sternly to his salutation-My dear Holmes. Holmes began to salute his correspondent occasionally as Dear F. P.; when Pollock was 82 he ventured to write My dear young Frederick, adding later "Frederick really is growing up." He seldom failed to send his love to "your Lady." Justice Holmes had a sharp eye for ladies, was once known to stare after a pretty girl and mutter: "Oh, to be 80 again...
Competitors will learn the management of both Varsity and Freshman teams, assisting in running off the three informal meets and three formal meets in which the Freshman team engages. Trips will be made to Exeter on May 3, to the triangular meet with Andover and Dartmouth Freshmen on May 10, and to the climactic meet with Yale at New Haven on May 17, two weeks before finals...