Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symbol of Fascismo, to be seen on the reverse of a new U. S. dime...
...provinces of Tacna and Arica, although not of immense economic value, have long been a cause and symbol of hatred between Chile and Peru. Bolivians have cast eager eyes at Tacna-Arica, but have not entered into their neighbors' dispute. Secretary Kellogg's scheme of settlement would give Bolivia a much-desired corridor to the sea and a port, the city of Arica. Then too, on the Morro promontory of Arica, Secretary Kellogg would like to see erected a monument to commemorate the healing of the Chile-Peru hate. Thus, everyone would be happy...
Japanese priests later explained privately to Occidentals that to the Japanese the fish is an immemorial symbol of reproductiveness. By their gifts of fish the Japanese nobility thus conveyed to Princess Teru-No-Miya the most pious of good wishes and the most delicate of compliments...
...King-Emperor last week, which was received by George V amid the pomp of Buckingham Palace. The Premiers declared: "The foundation of our work has been the sure knowledge that to each of us, as to all Your Majesty's subjects, the Crown is the abiding symbol of the unity of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...forced to endure it weather the storm amiably enough, probably never realizing their utter contemptibility. Likewise is the case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating on the subject make us less inferior...