Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association then went to the State Supreme Court, seeking both nullification of Fingold's decision, and a formal rehearing. The Court, however, which heard the case last October, threw...
...Barbary pirates informally for years. In 1875 President Polk precipitated a war with Mexico by sending American troops onto disputed soil between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. Once Polk created this "antecedent state of things," in Hamilton's phrase, Congress had no choice but to make a formal declaration of war. Abraham Lincoln, as a first-term Congressman, was among those voting to censure Polk for "unconstitutional" actions. But as President, Lincoln was to undertake drastic actions against the Confederacy without prior Congressional consent. The North never even admitted the existence of a state...
Undergraduate protest against the All-College Weekend is believed to have caused the financial loss. Many students felt that the All-College Weekend, featuring a formal dance in the IAB, was too "rah-rah" for Harvard...
...Students with an exceptionally strong secondary school background have been encouraged to take advanced courses in the freshman year. Now, if their work remains of honors quality, they will be free to substitute individual work for one or two formal courses during their junior and seniors years," Hanson added...
Perhaps the Student Committee to Investigate the Grading System did not realize the discussion would take the form of an adjudicatory proceeding. At any rate Committee counsel seemed prepared, and evidenced some signs of intimidation, though no formal charge of judicial bias was made...