Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy Commission got ready to take formal possession of the Army's Manhattan District on New Year's Day, Washington heard a story which well indicates the mood of the Gods of the Atomic Mountain...
...will not serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as General Sherman's brusque withdrawal...
Finally, last week, Jake sent an emissary to Kennelly again, this time guaranteeing him a free hand. Kennelly accepted. Ed Kelly, tired of fighting a losing game, capitulated. Puffing nervously on a cigaret, he strode into the Morrison Hotel the night before the formal announcement, to face the selection committee. Said he: "I haven't tried to be a dog in the manger. I am for you and I am with you. Let's nominate Kennelly and get through with...
...took her first formal music lesson. At 16, she gave her first important concert, at a Negro school in Atlanta. From then on, her life almost ceases to be personal. It is an individual achievement, but, as with every Negro, it is inseparable from the general achievement of her people. It was the congregation of the Union Baptist Church that gave Miss Anderson her start. Then a group of interested music lovers gave a concert at her church, collected about $500 to pay for training her voice under the late Philadelphia singing teacher, Giuseppe Boghetti...
...another key, but by a tone of divinity conveyed through the composer's growing deafness by an inspiration inexplicable to the mind. The spirituals are perhaps the greatest single burst of such inspiration, communicated, not through deafness, but through the darkness of minds which knew nothing of formal music and very little of the language they were singing...