Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rearmament boom, lined the streets and cheered lustily as the royal couple, riding in an open landau drawn by spanking Windsor greys, jogged out to the exhibition site, wooded Bellahouston Park. There in the neighboring Ibrox soccer stadium before 60,000 cheering Scots, King George acclaimed the exposition "a symbol of unity of the empire, the hallmark of this commonwealth of nations...
...years. Last week in Galveston four judges, Christian churchmen including a Catholic bishop, and 2,500 other people gathered to do honor to the South's greatest rabbi. Said Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson: "Henry Cohen is not merely our friend. In his humanness, he is a symbol of that democracy to which we aspire. If ever sabre rattling passes from the earth, it will be because of the Henry Cohens...
...which Hitler pooled all Germans everywhere into one ocean of German blood. He ended by defying openly for the first time the Czechoslovak statute which forbids the existence of a Nazi Party-it has hitherto existed in Czechoslovakia sub rosa, has not dared to use the swastika Nazi symbol. Daring the Government to enforce the law, Führer Henlein climaxed: "Naziism is the guiding principle of our Party, the same as it is for all Germans throughout the world! It is unbearable for us if, in the future, we are persecuted because of our confession of this faith...
Party & Policies. The elephants which cartoonists have been using as a symbol for the Republican Party since 1874 are a satisfactory metaphor.*The G. O. P. is old (84), massive, retentive and, though powerful, often very clumsy. Since 1928, the last attribute of the Republican Party has been its most conspicuous one. First sign of smartness the G. O. P. has exhibited in almost a decade appeared last year in the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Smartness in this crisis, however, since it consisted merely of lying low and letting conservative and progressive...
Both within and without the University such a man as De Voto can have a tremendous personal influence. To Harvard students he can be the symbol of articulation, giving tongue to the art of writing; from the world, his name will attract men of worth. It makes little difference whether the research work of the legendary teacher is lasting; what does make the difference is that the personality of such a man leaves a permanent effect. One of the major responsibilities of the University is toward its students; while research neglects teaching in favor of the advancement of knowledge, teaching...