Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University will establish a Harvard norm to be used as a basis in determining how the tests can be used for admitting returning veterans. The examinations are of the machine-scored, multiple-choice type. They are not easy tests, but they have been designed for the man whose formal education has been interrupted, and hence require ability and aptitude rather than factual knowledge...
...When formal intercollegiate sports were discontinued by the Crimson in the spring of 1943 and head basketball coach Earl Brown left for Dartmouth, the Athletic Association picked Stahl, then in his sixth year as Varsity baseball coach, to fill the breach left by Brown's transfer...
...year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit for the show's success...
...available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
Bischoff, only temporarily foiled, soon returned from Berlin, this time with a tough SS trooper and a formal paper demanding the surrender of the ants. The Professor announced that, since Father Wasmann was born in the Tyrol, the ants were German property. The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory. He appealed to the quisling Minister of Fine Arts at The Hague. Said the Minister: "Give up the ants." So the Professor carried them off to Berlin, after ostentatiously signing a receipt...