Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest to you, I relay to you a report from my roommate. We are both endeavoring to enter the Foreign Service of the U. S. and when we noted in the newspaper that a bellboy here in Washington had passed the written examinations without preparation of the formal variety, a delegation of one, my roommate, went snooping for whys...
...that the Army had smelled a Red rat: they did not like the radical sound of World Federation of Education Associations. Brazil's Government politely said that Rio de Janeiro would be glad to wine and dine the world's teachers but drew the line at a formal meeting...
Just 16 men are to appear, top-flight biologists and physicists all, at a symposium. In one room they will sit as on a sort of scientific Olympus, and each will make a formal statement of the most interesting truths he knows about biological cells and protoplasm. Then they will swap ideas and comments and, inevitably, some of them will, in the most abstruse scientific terms, call some others liars...
...Blame the Devil. Dr. Conklin's biological range is wide. His fattest book is on the general subject of Heredity & Environment. This has been translated into French, Russian and Japanese. The Russians, like Dr. Morgan, had a joke at his expense: since formal genetics is a touchy subject in Soviet ideology (TIME, June 26), the Russians deleted page after page that did not suit the party line, then sent him a complimentary copy of his own book, mutilated as well as pirated...
...fortune of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. Last week, in Elizabeth, N. J., his last will and testament was filed. His posthumous hedge against waste: neither of his daughters (heirs after the death of their mother) is to receive her share until she has passed a formal examination convincing the trustees she really knows and understands "the principles of sound investment...