Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the northerly march of the realizing Eli beer-mug jugglers, two formal dances at Winthrop and Eliot Houses are planned for Friday night. Cambridge environs will be graced on Saturday night with four informal dances at Leverett, Kirkland, Lowell, and Dunster. Tickets for these affairs are on sale again tonight in the Junior Common Room of every House...
House football teams will tangle with rivals from the Connecticut college Friday afternoon at Soldiers Field and tentative arrangements indicate that all five available playing fields will be used. Following the games, all the Houses will conduct formal dinners in anticipation of the dances to be held at Winthrop and Eliot...
...recovered in his Orleans hotel room, which accompanied him during the war years on Pacific duty with the U. S. Navy, contained several changes if clothing, including bits of formal attire, that proved effective in helping him elide police detection. West smiled as he noted a single black dancing pump included in the inventory...
Practice & Faith. Warren Austin was not what the world generally considered a typical American. He appeared reticent, formal, gentle, oldfashioned, a man of controlled emotions and clear purposes. He was born in 1877 in Highgate Center (pop. 500 at the time), among the green, hard hills of Vermont. He read the Bible, Lincoln, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, was fullback at the University of Vermont. Later, he settled down to the life of a small-town lawyer. In 1931, he was elected to the Senate, where, after 1939, he labored long & hard for aid to the Allies...
...expense. Then she resubmitted it to the firm of Warne & Co.; who, this time, accepted it. "I have not spoken to Mr. Potter," wrote Beatrix timidly to her publisher, "but I think, Sir, it would be well to explain the agreement clearly, because he is a little formal, having been a barrister...