Word: symbolisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments to sign agreements guaranteeing respect for the wounded, neutralizing military hospitals, protecting the material and personnel of medical services. Also agreed upon was the use of a white flag bearing a red cross* as the international symbol of sanctuary...
...long may our star studded symbol unfurled...
Since, in the Duke tests, a subject has five symbols to choose from each time he guesses at the symbol of a down-faced card, the Duke experimenters claim that he has a "chance expectation" of five "hits" or correct guesses in a deck of 25. Therefore, when a guesser averages eight, seven or even six hits over a long run, Rhine claims that these scores are high enough to rule out chance. Some of his opponents have claimed that he does not know the mathematics of probability well enough to make such a statement. Perhaps, they hint...
...swastika developed independently as a symbol of good and bad luck in many cultures...
...daily bread' is not a figure of speech. . . . What some of us who are called radical are trying to do is to answer that call in His name as He would have us do. That, gentlemen, is why the fight is still on. Christ knew that the symbol of the Cross He died on would be an everlasting reminder to the entire world that the people of the world should have their daily bread...