Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of Longstreet on Seminary Ridge was by a sort of pathetic fallacy a neat lesson for the U.S. in 1941. Whether or not he was right by the book, he was, at Gettysburg, a classic American figure of the cost of delay...
...required of the real purposes and projects of the present leaders of Germany for world domination, it is now furnished by Hitler's treacherous attack upon Soviet Russia. ... To the leaders of the German Reich sworn engagements to refrain from hostile acts against other countries . . . are but a symbol of deceit. To the present German Government the very meaning of the word 'honor' is unknown...
Fortnight ago Pat Harrison underwent an operation for an intestinal obstruction. This week he died. There were still a few Southerners with his old-fashioned political creed left in Congress. But Pat Harrison was a symbol. A chapter...
Last week, if Tahiti was scarcely more than a tiny, surf-washed symbol of the French Empire, that symbol adorned the cause of Free France...
Carl Sandburg (at University of North Carolina): "A famous aviator has quit flying and taken to talking. Thirteen years ago his picture was hung on college walls, a symbol of youth ready to risk and adventure for the sake of great achievement. Now all of a sudden that same daring aviator has begun to talk the language of comfort and safety first and of breakfast at home with mother...