Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over on the other side of the Yard. In such accomplishments as the creation of the Institute of Criminal Law which opens this fall can be seen the importance of the Law School in the general development of the American legal code. The completed Langdell Hall is a symbol of this increasingly distinguished side of the Law School...
...dubbed "Victorian" is to be considered old fashioned, conservative, and even stagnant; to be classed as "medieval" implies unenlightenment, ignorance, and superstition. Yet "Victorian" and "medieval" also connote something fundamental and worth while in the shifting educational atmosphere of the present. Occasionally a term of derision becomes a symbol of strength and mental stability. Williams Alumni Bulletin
...they, too, share in this great achievement. A great seat of learning gave her best endeavors to meet the need for the trained men they craved for business; it gave its full recognition to the profession they held in honor; here and now in return is a concrete symbol of what American business is prepared to give...
...they could remember scenes from their suckling days, would recall not the soft fullness of a mother's breast but a chunky tin can emitting the satisfying gurgle of U. S. condensed milk. And many a man, sensitive to form and color, would recall as a prime symbol of his infancy a fine full-blown pink blossom-the trademark of Carnation Milk...
Elaborate, pretentious, built on undrained ground, sinking still beneath its own weight, it is bitterly referred to by many a Mexican as a symbol of the whole Diaz régime-grand in conception, fumbled in execution...