Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advancement of Colored People ended its annual deliberations. Many a notable such as Julius Rosenwald and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, friendly to Negroes, had been heard. Resolutions were passed and a million dollar program for promoting more perfect race equality was adopted. The climax came when the Spingarn medal, the symbol of Negro distinction, was presented to Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson for "ten years' service in collecting and publishing records of the Negro in America...
...Steel's $521,863,109 surplus. That sum means far more than money to Mr. Gary. It is the balance wheel to his corporation. It is the keel of his ship. It makes U. S. Steel Common (since last April definitely at 7%) an incomparable symbol of security, despite bad years, which no business can escape. For the the last quarter of 1914 it had only $567,359 of profits available for dividends which required 12 times that sum. The difference came from surplus. The next quarter, the first of 1915, were almost as bad. But dividends were paid...
...allegiance, that strength which kept the totem valid long after its vital life-force had disappeared. The formal totem became sc fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his idols and his gods but reluctantly and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem, stifling it and distorting its true sense...
...cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing spirit, his totem becomes but a dry and lifeless symbol, the very negation of that driving force which makes totems the foundations of the social world...
...What symbol was ordered to be displayed at all Italian Universities...