Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation ago, the Test Tube was the symbol of Science. Present now is the era of the Vacuum Tube. While tubes with everything imaginable in them are still used in laboratory research, tubes with nothing in them are used in radio as amplifiers, in medicine as a source of X-rays, in the laboratory to photograph molecules, as guns to bombard and break down atoms. Last week new tube developments were reported...
...remodelled cash register factory at Bound Brook, N. J. a moving picture company was started in 1910. It was named for Charles Pathe, French experimenter with kinetic shadows. Among the early U. S. picture companies Pathe became important and prosperous, famed for its comedies, its newsreels. Its symbol was a crowing cock. Into fame the Pathe rooster crowed Harold Lloyd, Pearl White. In 1927 Pathe was reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant...
...where engineers can command and skilled workers perform, where mass-production pays, there has Henry Ford succeeded. But even as the tropics and all the vexatious conditions they imply have conquered the genius of many another white man, so last week did they seem to have conquered Henry Ford, symbol of System, Efficiency, Profits. In the rich, deep Amazon Valley, the jungle was reported slowly closing in on a Ford enterprise...
...thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before hunting. Tribal medicine men prescribe self torture as a cure for disease, advise a poultice of live ants as a disease prevention. One chief gave Explorer Holdridge some vegetables from his garden. He explained that the vegetables were good because recently...
Almost every school or college has some sort of "honor system." In some it is a living thing which the students cherish and preserve by strict self-discipline. In many, however, it is an outworn symbol of the "romantic" period of the late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in their talks to parents and alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded...