Word: token
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Orleans and the martial St. Michael. But we cannot laugh at the emotion which has opened these peoples' eyes to the starry sign. It proves that the awful events which are in progress in the world have entered the hearts and minds of all men. It is a token that the world is aroused to the necessity of vast and concerted action. Perhaps it is also an indication of the universal yearning for strong leadership. In the wreck of the reputations of generals and statement, in the poverty of great and commanding names, the common people seek a supernatural leader...
...vanished. We see that the people are not subscribing in large amounts for the loan. It is still a capitalist's investment. For that reason, if the loan does not fail financially, it will fail morally, being not an expression of national confidence and unity, but simply a token of our abundant capital...
...delegation representing 100 former students of Professor Frank W. Taussig '79, of the Economics Department, presented him with a beautiful silver bowl on Saturday as a token of their esteem and affection. The bowl is a replica of one made by Paul Revere in the 18th century and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. As Professor Taussig leaves shortly to take up his work with the Federal Tariff Board at Washington, his former students took this occasion to tender him a mark of their gratitude and loyalty...
...with the final chapel exercises of the Amherst College seniors was the formal announcement of the election of President Meiklejohn as an honorary member of the class in view of the fact that the president and the seniors began their connection with the college at the same time. In token of his acceptance of the honorary membership conferred upon him by the class, the President doffed his doctor of laws regalia, was escorted to a place among the seniors in the front row and at the conclusion of the exercises marched out between the class marshal and class president...
...original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers who have found him a wise, faithful and generous friend...