Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation. . . ." At commencement exercises this week he handed Dr. Churchill's diploma to Noel Hall, British Minister to Washington, and eulogized to the Prime Minister by transatlantic radio: ". . . Our hearts speak out to England. . . . Our common cause is freedom. . . .Winston Churchill, no longer historian and statesman, but symbol of Britain aroused . . . America admires you. . . . May peace with freedom be your crowning work...
...chairs and shucked their robes, they were more than eight judges beginning their vacations. The old Court that had blocked Franklin Roosevelt's first New Deal-Butler, Sutherland, Van Devanter, McReynolds-had disappeared, by death or resignation. The transitional Court, of which Chief Justice Hughes was the great symbol, was no more. The new Court that went vacationing this week was the interpreter of a new Constitution...
Second Prize of $200 to Harry D. Feltenstein Jr. '41, of St. Joseph, Mo., for an essay entitled "The Metaphor Roots of the Symbol...
...emphasis on the danger to tutor- ial the Council said that the tutorial system was "a symbol, and at Harvard at least, the focal point, of a liberal education," the long-run social values of which should not be dismissed "as nonessentials and luxuries, to be dispensed with in an emergency...
...being completed, where Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the members of Parliament that World War I had begun, was gutted by seven high-explosive bombs just 72 hours after Winston Churchill had there spun one of his finest fabrics of oratory. Big Ben, whose broadcast chimes had become a symbol of empire, had his face blackened and cut, but in a few hours the huge clock was running again. The exquisite timber roof of 900-year-old Westminster Hall, under which Charles I, Guy Fawkes and Warren Hastings were tried, caved...