Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintenance men with picks and shovels dug into the sacred lawns of the Yard and turned its chief path from traditional black to bizarre gray. The reason was merely this: the old path had not been wide enough to hold a platoon of men three lines deep, during the formal color raisings and color lowerings held daily by the Navy men. It was not beneficial either for the lawn or for military order that the Guard of Honor should have to stand on the grass. As for the color, the walk will be black in no time, Yard Cops predict...
...They were greeted by civic and military dignitaries. They had a parade, in open cars if there was sun, in closed sedans when it rained. After a while, they got so they waved their hands at the crowds in a methodical way. There were stiff luncheons with polite speeches, formal dinners with high, windy, patriotic talk. There were rallies in auditoriums and ball parks. Sometimes there was vaudeville. Someone usually sang God Bless America...
...crew chief killed in action, nine flyers killed in accidents. An A.V.G. squadron had a last flight, shooting down at least six Japs over Hengyang. The Generalissimo gave a dinner for General Chennault. Then, as they all knew it must, came July 4 and with it the formal end of the American Volunteer Group...
Freshmen signing up today will first get their study cards in Memorial Hall, and will have to talk their course programs over with their advisers some time during the morning or afternoon, returning again to go through the rest of the formal registration...
Such circumstantial evidence finally convinced the cautiously jurisprudential Argentine Foreign Ministry that the two torpedoes which smacked into the plainly marked Argentine tanker Victoria off Hatteras six weeks ago (TIME, May 4) came from an Axis submarine. The Foreign Ministry cabled formal notes of protest to Berlin and Rome, which politely acknowledged receipt and added that they would reply "in due course...