Word: formalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What we are about to do here," said Harry Truman, "is a neighborly act. We are like a group of householders, living in the same locality, who decide to express their community of interests by entering into a formal association for their mutual self-protection...
While he waited for company from Capitol Hill, the President put in a busy week, full of official comings & goings. Winston Churchill arrived for the full brandy-and-cigar treatment at a formal presidential dinner in Blair House (see The Nation). There was a little dinner for outgoing Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and, later, a surprise ceremony to give Jim the Distinguished Service Medal. Incoming Secretary Louis Johnson was eager to take over, so the transfer was moved ahead four days, and early this week he was publicly installed at the Pentagon in the biggest swearing-in ceremony...
...Engineers will play a team which has been practicing on a completely organized basis for the first time since the war, while the MIT ruggers, who are mostly English students, play on a much less formal basis...
...Formal Education. Johnny Groth has always been a good ballplayer, but until four years ago his game was football. At Chicago Latin School, Johnny was a triple-threat halfback, but never spent much time at baseball. The Navy nabbed him before he could decide which college football scholarship to accept, and sent him to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...were putting in time at Great Lakes, too. When Johnny got out of the Navy in 1946, he signed a contract with the Tigers (with a $30,000 bonus attached), socked the money away in war bonds, and reported to Williamsport, Pa. the following spring to start his formal education in the game...