Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...
...symbol d, common in calculus, operates to make the left side of the equation a quantity containing the element of change. The suffixes (1) and (2), explains Dr. Richardson, identify the symbols which they follow as the opposing nations or groups of nations; x denotes preparedness for war, a variable; t is the length of time during which the nations have been coming together as enemies; k is a "defense-coefficient"; √ is a "fatigue and expense" coefficient; Δ "represents those dissatisfactions-with-treaties, which tend to provoke a breach of the peace...
...longer head the stationery of undergraduates, proud of the gleaming red seal which is the symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...
There is neither rhyme nor reason in this action. The seal in itself has long since lost whatever practical value it may once have possessed. Only as a living symbol does it acquire significance. Confined to diplomas and official stationery it forwith becomes a museum piece, completely stripped of the meaning which constant use by Harvard men confers upon it. And it is difficult to imagine who should have more right to its use or pride in its display than the undergraduates and graduates of the University...
...newspapers carried a total of 52 columns of Ford stories. Radicals feared that Mr. Ford was buying his workers' souls with a few extra dollars per week; conservatives were concerned about employes "spending their money foolishly." And out of the deafening hubbub Henry Ford emerged as the international symbol of modern industrialism...