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Word: symbolism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seemingly unconcerned was Gaetano Merola, the dapper irrepressible Italian who against all odds founded the San Francisco company in 1922. Impresario Merola defined the deficit as an asset, symbol of the scenic equipment which he has been steadily acquiring. While San Franciscans worried over President Alexander's pronouncement, Merola was flitting about Manhattan last week, hearing new singers, considering new contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco's Cry | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...newshawks Hibernian Sweeney later explained: "I recall that it was during King George's reign that the Black & Tans invaded Ireland. . . . Many of my relatives were among the victims of that outrage. ... I had nothing against the King personally, but he represented a symbol not in harmony with our democracy. I intend to protest against the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Irishman v. King | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...brought to the Holy Father from the Church of St. Agnes in the Via Nomentana in Rome. Given his blessing, the gentle animals will be coddled until Easter when their wool is shorn, woven into the pallia which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates and archbishops as a symbol of their office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Children | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Major Edgar B. Tolman, Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar Association Journal has repeatedly criticized this symbol, and when Senator Carter Glass in the United States Senate demanded an amendment of the bill to which you refer, he read into the record of the Senate Justice O'Connor's opinion along with the criticisms made by John W. Davis of New York and the Honorable George W. Wickersham. And again in May of 1935 the Illinois Appellate Court spoke on this subject in the case of City National Bank v. Davis Hotel Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: This from West Virginia's Maxwell, dissenting in Bell v. Gas Company, decided July 25, 1935, and reported in 181 S.E. 609, should be included in your anthology on "and/or." "The involvements of the contract are accentuated by the frequent use of the baffling symbol 'and/or'-a disingenuous modernistic hybrid, inept and irritating." GEORGE RICHARDSON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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