Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how minute. For those who could not plunk down $100, a deferred-payment plan was provided: $10 down, installments of 5?. Incidental "love offerings" of $5 to $6 were gratefully received. Boys & girls belonged to "Cosmic Network, Inc.," contributed 1? stamps. Into "Secret Givers, Inc." (for men only; emblem: a stork carrying a baby) members paid from 50? to $1 a month...
...presented it to the University during the Tercentenary Celebration. The presentation was made on behalf of the Harvard alumni in China. The dragon-headed tortoise which supports the vertical stone occupies a very important but seemingly vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet is an expression of the donor's high regard for Harvard; it praises education, peace, and good will...
...dispute was the same principle which has won Director Kanin, onetime handyman for Broadway Producer George Abbott, his letter in Hollywood after only three years. Earnest and honest in his work, he is a dissenter from the old director's trick of stamping films with a personal emblem like the Lubitsch "touch." The quick Kanin success has been based on the un-Hollywood device of taking the performers' personalities out of a screen play, centering the emphasis on the development of the author's characters...
Instructor in Economics 81, Labor Problems, Nixon noted with surprised that, among members of the course present Saturday, there was not one Willkie supporter. He himself was wearing a button in his lapel, but it was not for Roosevelt or Willkie; it was an emblem of the Anti-Profanity League, which Nixon joined on Friday, though he "swears" his action had no connection with the Lewis address...
...Long ago when this country was very young our emblem was not the eagle-it was the rattlesnake, coiled to strike, with the slogan, "Don't Tread On Me!" This was the spirit that won our freedom. With this spirit we can survive-if our brains and our guts haven't been bred...