Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lafayette Student Council, after exhaustive research in the lore of the jungle, has chosen the leopard as the symbol for the athletic teams of the college. In this beast they find that the admirable qualities of strength, cunning, and irresistibility are combined in the proper proportions to constitute a formidable whole. Other colleges which have selected such drab beasts as the bulldog, the tiger, or the bear, have apparently not exercised a similar spirit of reason and research in their choices of animated totems...
...life, people, literature, always with kindly irony, a gentle skepticism. It was thus that the people of France came to think of the author of Thais and The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and The Red Lily and The Rotisserie of Queen Pédauque -a philosopher, an immortal symbol. Now, in the 80th year of his life, Anatole France is dead...
...Manager Harris, I am directed by a group of your Washington fellow-citizens to present to you for the club this loving cup. It is a symbol of deep and genuine sentiment. It is committed to you and your team mates in testimony of the feeling that all Washington...
Three types of greenery were considered, the elm, two poplars, or a cactus plant. The cactus plant was abandoned because in his wisdom Lampy decided it was too prickly and symbolical. The project of planting two poplars was rejected because poplars only last 30 years, and Lampy goes on forever. And so the elm was selected, long-living and symbol of eternal wisdom...
...subsidiary, the International-Great Northern. Missouri Pacific already controls the Texas & Pacific through ownership of $23,703,000 of its $24,676,000 preferred and $10,000,000 of its $38,755,110 common stock. In addition, Missouri Pacific (or "Mop" as it is usually known, from its ticker symbol "MP") obtained a half interest with the Western Pacific in the Denver, Rio Grande & Western when the latter road was recognized a year ago. On this basis, the new "Mop" system will include 15,000 miles of track...