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Word: betokens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...perceptively pinpointed several aspects of student life at Wellesley. Much of what he says is extremely valid. However, from the viewpoint of a Wellesley girl (one in partial agreement with him), the strength of his arguments is lessened by the several inaccuracies that occur throughout the article and betoken haste and inaccurate research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUNICATA | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...prospect of a 100th birthday for anyone is formidable. Such a celebration for a literary magazine is equally imposing and deserving of the same bewildered respect popularly bestowed for longevity. The occasion, though solemn, can be festive. It should betoken new life...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: The Atlantic | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...course of her study has also led to a small armory of academic honors. She is a member of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Society of America. These honors in someone else might betoken a staid and settled dignity, but in Miss Cam they are landmarks in a life that has kept forever on the move. At nearly seventy, she and her sister jostled across the United States sitting up in a train, to take a bus trip up and down the West Coast...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The First Lady | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

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