Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short visit to the leading cities of Canada, the date of his arrival in Cambridge is as yet uncertain. Due to the unsettled nature of the King's program the reception committee has been unable to come to a final decision regarding the entertainment to be provided. A formal dinner at which he will be the guest of honor has been hinted at, however. The King is coming to America to consult a noted eye-specialist in Washington...
...Guarantee of Belgian Neutrality, famed "Scrap of Paper" of the War, was signed by Britain, France, Prussia, Russia and Austria in 1839. By it Belgian neutrality was not only guaranteed but independent Belgium was forbidden to enter formal military alliances. The Scrap of Paper quietly disappeared in the Treaty of Versailles. By the 1920 Franco-Belgian Agreement, French officers are present at Belgian maneuvers and General Staff conferences. French military engineers are being consulted in the plans for a great line of fortifications which Belgium is laying down across her eastern frontier. The advantages of this agreement against possible German...
Conference. First formal presentation of the Johns Hopkins cancer film was to be this week at the National Institute of Health, Washington, before a Cancer conference summoned by Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...many men have received such formal homage while they were alive. Among the few are: the late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A. Forssell, radiologist of Sweden; Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderline, gynecologist of Germany. And now Cancer Man Ewing of Cornell...
...Students will enter between the ages of 12 and 18; preference wil be given to those who plan to take a full course of high school and college work. All the teachers must be northerners (to show Alabamans that damyankees are little different from themselves). There will be no formal grades or rating by classes, no foreign language instruction, no graduation exercises, no interschool games, no secret societies, no religious instruction, no building for any Godly purpose...