Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter was sent to a great number of educators, scientists, writers, and leaders of though in all occupations and makes a plea for the modernization of religious teaching. While praising the Bible Professor Holmes advocates ridding the modern man of the necessity of a formal acceptance of many "mediaeval superstitions" in which the great organized churches persist. "The modern mind cannot and does not accept them actually, so we have the unfortunate and essentially dishonest situation of thousands professing to believe what they do not really believe...
...voted against Reapportionment (1929) Though not on formal record, he favored Boulder Dam (1928), opposed the Navy's 15-cruiser bill...
...patrons. He lives in a farmhouse at Dublin, N. H., but is wintering at Oyster Bay, L. I. His eight children, of whom three have died, grew up in the West while Artist Brush was painting Indians. They learned to pose before they learned to read and received little formal schooling. His four girls are now married; one to a Cabot, one to a Coates, one to a Bowditch, one to Inventor Winslow Pierce...
After a long period of increasing expectation on the part of both Wets and Drys, the Wickersham Commission has at last made its formal report. But for those who have awaited the outcome of this investigation with bated breath, the results will not seem quite as reassuring as they might...
...mistake to address in this way a Harvard undergraduate, jealous of his natural right to flunk out of college. He immediately suspects that there is a hidden significance--to be dreaded--as the CRIMSON has shown. Perhaps Professor Coolidge would have done better to make the letter coldly formal. That the CRIMSON took the attitude it did is an indication of the way any attempt to promote informality between the student body and the faculty, in the Houses is to be treated. Such an attitude of armed neutrality is not conducive to allowing the central idea of the House Plan...