Word: formalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pointing out that many Ivy colleges recently have constructed rinks and organized teams, Hodder claimed that formal league competition will soon be possible. He added that Harvard will play Army next year, "a step in the right direction towards increasing the number of our American competitors...
...when they went. He desperately hoped and worked for peace right up to last week. He retained the Allies' pledge of defense in case Germany sought to attack them again through Belgium, because he more than guessed, he knew, that Germany would do so. There were no formal staff talks between the Belgians and the Allies after the war started, but there was rich "understanding." As the moment of invasion approached, Leopold had prepared to let his defenders through to his front lines, and beyond, at once. When the signal came last week and the Allied columns rolled...
...with a buxom armful of gently protesting but finally surrendering cornfed, Walnut Valley gal in your arms, to the slow and formal threnody of the waltz, a fellow kind of felt he was of some importance. . . . The tunes tangled in one's dreams for days; and the pressure of a warm hand-and even if it was a little sweaty and sticky it was young and ardent -might easily linger through life...
Including several amusing incidents about the Association, "But Gentlemen. Who Shall Oversee the Overseers?" tells of one of the first formal alumni dinners which "was thrown into a very ungenial state," by the circumstances that the dinner was composed in a good degree of spoiled meats. Josiah Quincy, Jr. said it was rather a diet at Worms than a meeting of the alumni...
...position of owing the protection of his life to peace-loving Pope Pius XII. After a bombproof shelter with walls nine feet thick had been prepared for His Holiness, and gas masks were distributed to all Vatican City residents, the belligerent powers belatedly came forth with formal assurance that Rome would not be attacked even if Italy got in the war. Reason: Even with the most accurate bomb sights, it would be practically impossible to bomb the Italian capital without hitting the Church's Holy City. No side wants to risk the ire of the Catholic world...