Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME, Oct. 9). Three hundred pounds of majesty beneath her State umbrella, symbol of Abyssinian sovereignty, she lent glamour to the consecration beside the River Jordan of a new Coptic Church and Convent- Abyssinians being Coptic Christians. "The Empress is not interested in public affairs," fibbed Her Majesty's suave Grand Chamberlain. "She is interested only in her home and children." Especially confidential letters...
...thing. It is making clear to even the least politically minded worker that the Monarchy is an integral part of the existing social system in Britain. Hence the future of the British Monarchy is identical with the future of British capitalism." Mr. Amery, calling the monarchy the perpetual symbol of liberty, says, "the Crown is much more than a mere symbol of unity. It is also a very real constitutional and organic bond of union. . . It is the indivisible unity of a common Crown to which all British subjects stand in the same relation...
...reviewing Peck's Bad Boy, current cinema, TIME correctly describes Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) as "a juvenile sneak & pedant" (TIME, Oct. 15). Cousin Horace, arriving at the Peck household, is carrying a magazine. At several moments a familiar cover is plainly visible. TIME! A symbol of pedantry, no doubt...
Three short years ago the formula D20 would have been meaningless to chemists because there was no element corresponding to the symbol D. Now every chemist in the land knows that D2O means heavy water, that D is the symbol for the heavy isotope of hydrogen which Dr. Urey identified in the autumn of 1931 (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) and subsequently named deuterium. Undoubtedly in considering last week's award the Swedish Academy took cognizance of the fact that no discovery in the physical sciences in recent years has stimulated more widespread research than...
...Atlao's back is a roughly carved bear, hugging its nose. Authorities are not agreed as to what this represents. It is a symbol either of man's rise from the bear, or of Atlao's spirit, supposed by his tribe to resemble a bear...