Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shenanigans, Democrat Glen Taylor is no fool. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he got little formal education, made up for it by wolfing every volume on social and economic matters he could lay his hands on. He herded sheep for a while, for several years made a living as a tent-show cowboy in a Western stock company...
...political element in America can start to match the election-year discomfiture of Americans for Democratic Action. At its showy first formal national convention last weekend in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel ADA unanimously agreed that it was rebellious toward the Republicans, wrathful to the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace, and coolly critical of Truman's record. Both members and leaders called themselves "the third force" in civilization, rejecting the status quo of the Right and the worldwide totalitarian program of the Communist Left. Every-where it is the third force which finds itself today between the devil...
Rene Peroy's Freshman fencing team won its sixth straight match of the season yesterday by defeating Boston University 6 to 3 at Boston University. Formal competition was limited to the foils...
...Freshman at Harvard in particular wants desperately to find a group to which he can attach himself, and, since there is little or no opportunity to meet his intellectual colleagues in the lecture hall or even in the section, he turns to some formal or informal social group whose only common denominator is an interest in football games, cocktail parties, and desultory bull sessions...
...Everywhere & Nowhere." The dawn was breaking beyond Turkish Thrace as the patrol, swinging back toward headquarters by another route, clattered into Kalamokastron. Here, the chagrined Greek captain discovered, the Andartes had raided that very night but had left hurriedly when the grapevine-remarkably swift for an area without formal communications-brought news that the patrol...