Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friday night formal affairs are slated for Eliot and Winthrop, Warren said. On Saturday, with Eli's Cambridge invasion in full force, dances will be held in Lowell, Leverett, Kirkland, and Dunster. While Adams is not sponsoring its own event, its House Dance Committee will aid Winthrop and Eliot in planning for the Friday night formals, and will join in the seven-way profit-sharing of the weekend...
Said Baruch: Russia's counterproposal actually adds up to little more than a formal renunciation of atomic warfare (as weak as the Kellogg-Briand Pact...
Taking issue with those who consider Lincoln's writing as an innocent or plain homespun talent, Editor Easier argues that it is the work of a conscious literary craftsman. Although he had little formal education, Lincoln studied rhetoric in his spare time, pored over Aesop's Fables and the King James Bible, wrote practice exercises in prose and verse. By the time he had reached 28, Easier declares, he had already acquired the skill "which marks all his later work . . . [although his] taste improves much thereafter, as his literary stature increases...
...possibility of formal solidification of the Madrid-Buenos Aires Axis is increased by the presence in Argentina of a Spanish mission, headed by Tomas Suner, the intent and probable outcome of which is to secure economic assistance for Franco's bleeding government. Though neither country as yet possesses the economic or material attributes of a first rate power, Argentina, at least, has the potential capacity for an extended and effective military effort...
Next day he made his formal entrance into Athens. The day was bright, but, as the King stepped ashore, a small cloud veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...