Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first time it had been worn since the Socialist administration discarded it after the War as a useless bourgeois symbol...
...stamp in honor of Mother's Day (May 13). Officials agreed it would be a reproduction of Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, could not decide whether to have her clasped hands hold a bouquet of carnations, Mother's Day symbol. The stamp will be issued...
...based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution. On the other hand, communist collectivism cannot be the last word; the classless state of Marx, with its absence of conflict may be a symbol in a revolutionary religion, but it is only a symbol. Communism, which may have to oppose Christianity as an institution, will have to revive it as a doctrine, and as a way of life, after its own victory is accomplished...
John Harvard on his pedestal, a traditional symbol for generations of Harvard men, celebrates his fiftieth birthday this spring. The imposing statue in front of University Hall which bears the legend, "John Harvard, Founder, 1638," was cast in bronze by Daniel French and first erected...
...Harkness millions. Harvard has watched some hundred thousands in Krueger and Toll swirl gently into a financial maelstrom. But through New Era and New Deal, oblivious to both, fingers of steel have clasped the purse-strings of Lehman Hall. To the undergraduate, Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character...