Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jubilee, traditionally the big weekend of the Freshman year, is scheduled for early May. an informal Friday night dance will be followed on Saturday evening by a gala formal. Talk of hiring a "name band" for the formal has been circulating for several days...
...mulo Betancourt, newspaperman; declare under oath that I possess no real-estate assets of any kind." Then he listed everything he owned: a few shares in the newspaper El Páis, a share in Los Cortijos (a recreation club), a 1947 Mercury, several suits of formal clothes. Total value: 17,000 Bs (bolivars, equaling $5,100). His debts: 4,156 Bs owed to his tailors; 1,200 still to be paid on the Mercury, and 10,500 borrowed from the Bank of Caracas. Total debts: 15,856 Bs ($4,756). Betancourt's net worth...
...Penguins. British Minister of State Hector McNeil favored putting the controversy to the International Court at the Hague. Because Chile and Argentina based their claims chiefly on proximity and occupation, the British had a good case. They had sailed the Antarctic seas since 1773, whaled there, set up a formal government for part of the disputed area in 1908, and had organized more than half the expeditions ever sent into the Antarctic. Said the Manchester Guardian confidently: "Let Latin American oratory have its fling and the penguins applaud. It should be enough for us to put our case diplomatically...
...Success. With formal questioning and informal ("Tell me about yourself") interviews, the whole S.R.I, test takes only 40 minutes. Analyzers then take about five hours to weigh the answers "blind" (they never see the subject) and predict how the subject will do in a certain...
...Save the Marshall Plan" officials yesterday made formal reply to last week's charges of the Committee for Wallace that their campaign is "ineffectual." At the same time the body for European recovery announced its speakers for tomorrow night's University-wide rally at Sanders Theatre. Starting time is indefinite...