Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea that Farm Relief should not be without some comic relief. At Omaha, he had again handled with gloves that troublesome symbol, the Equalization Fee. Without gloves he had man-handled the G. O. P.'s eight-year "solicitude and sympathy" for the farmer. If it had "listened well" to Republican Governor McMullen, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was content. He continued his inspection of the State capitol which the late, great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York designed for Nebraska...
...next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about how men may be forlorn...
...beyond the Business School is one of those improvements in the University's athletic plans which have been long delayed by mechanical difficulties. Outside the military science units on Soldiers Field has long stood the polo practise cage, its purpose conjectual only to the imaginative. The scarred and single symbol that polo is played at Harvard, it has been also the symbol, like the graduate student who swam the Charles in March, of an inadequacy...
...goddess is exalted with the maddest and most foolish hymns to become a symbol of national power. . . . Meanwhile, true virtues . . . are forgotten...
...Harry J. Wieler, the Hotchkiss resident physician, last week began his second year as director of the year-old Medical Department. Observers saw in him a symbol. He marked the end of ignorance and carelessness in the medical departments of preparatory schools. Hotchkiss earned praise last week for its organized, efficient medical department, as did Taft and Kent...