Word: symbolized
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...herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place for the ceremony of kanchalia dharam...
Last week the Air Force announced plans for a new, long-range radio station, which, it hopes, will solve the problem. Dubbed "Navarho" ("Nav" for navigation, "a"' for aid, "rho" for the Greek letter symbol meaning distance), the powerful 15-kw. station will be built near Camden, N.Y. Its three 625-ft. transmitting towers will send out low-frequency signals over 2,500 to 3,000 miles. Friendly (and enemy) aircraft from the Azores to Seattle will be able to take a radio bearing into their electronic apparatus, measure their distance from Camden by comparing signals from the three...
Ecumenical Symbol. Dean Brauer's team has had its troubles in getting organized. In 1943 four separate theological schools merged on the campus of the University of Chicago to become the Federated Theological Faculty: the University of Chicago Divinity School (Baptist), the Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregationalist), the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian), and the Disciples of Christ Divinity House. The resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked...
...Theologians Wilhelm Pauck and Daniel Williams left to join the competition at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary), F.T.F. settled on its own Jerry Brauer. Says Dr. John Rylaarsdam, chairman of the committee that picked him: "He is a capable young scholar who furnishes as a Lutheran a real symbol for the ecumenical character of the school...
...Group today has a silver symbol--a gleaming trophy given by the Pennsylvania Class of 1925 for the winner of the Ivy Group football championship...