Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty years of confusion over an educational symbol should come to an end tomorrow when the Faculty meets to consider the College's incongruous distinction between "arts" and "sciences" in the award of the bachelor degree. It has frequently been suggested that a college education by any name would stand on its value as education, but upon whatever scrawlings appear on one's final sheepskin, and that the whole controversy is wasted energy. But a downy thistle can be as annoying as a full-grown bramble, especially when the whole field includes thorny questions of the value of the ancient...
Sunshine. Cabled TIME Correspondent Simon Bourgin: "The elections were the most corrupt and boldly manipulated in the postwar Balkans. The Government had denied the opposition radio time, newsprint for its papers, transportation for its candidates. The Democratic Front's risingsun symbol was plastered every where, including polling places. In one brewery, workers were treated to a one-act play entitled Vote the Sun, then marched in to vote...
...well. One night last week the tabloids gave him his first big headlines in more than a decade-he had suffered a cerebral thrombosis. Thirty-four hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to James John Walker, ex-mayor of New York, the dapper, silk-hatted symbol of the Fabulous Twenties...
Columbian R. L. Whitman had brought along his wife and baby to watch the fun. On the baby's sleeve was pinned the thunderbolt symbol...
Curiously enough, he added, the Arab masses regard Jewish settlement as "the symbol of Western oppression, and leaders are thus able to exploit a hatred for British imperialism to keep out the Jews...