Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parson heard and made Benoni sign a public retraction. Deputized by the lazy sheriff to read public announcements after church, Benoni omitted the retraction. Of course this was found out and the lion-marked post bag, symbol of Benoni's distinction among his fellow fishermen, was taken from...
...skyscraper had no sooner become a symbol for business progress and growth, than the Middle West entered the competition. W. C. Durant, then heading General Motors, decided to acquire the championship in office buildings for Detroit, and succeeded in doing , so with the enormous General Motors Building?at present the world's largest. Cleveland also entered the competition with its mammoth Union Trust building. Chicago began planning new office structures of huge size. Thus, while Manhattan remained unique in the number of its skyscrapers, its largest building was outranked by construction in the Middle West...
There is scarcely a college in the country which has not produced some sign of symbol of student ferment during the present college year. Here it takes the form of a campaign against compulsory chapel, there it is advice to the Trustees and Faculty as to how to run the college, again it is a barbed critique of the mental habits of the students themselves...
...meeting mean? What language does it speak to you and all Italians? It means an appeal for concord, addressed to all those who bore arms for their country. It speaks the language of peace to all Italians who suffered in the long war. We must again find the luminary symbol of love and make it the lodestar of our destiny. We must always remember the sacrifices we all sustained, not forgetting for a single moment the brotherhood of blood which united all soldiers in the trenches. To disarm among men of the same blood means to arm against an external...
...plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before...