Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week went a Virginia delegation of Izaak Walton Leaguers, led by Congressman Robert Walton Moore. To the President they handed an expensive rod and reel, said it was "a token of esteem and gratitude for the impetus given outdoor sports, particularly fishing, which the President by hi? example has brought to the attention of the whole country...
...same token, all such guidance should be voluntary and not compulsory on the student. Compulsory interviews would always be conducted under an 'obvious psychological handicap. Moreover, relatively few students are interested in vocational advice until the senior year. The experience of the Dartmouth office and Mr. Daly's office indicates this. Hence the compulsory guidance of underclassmen would be in the nature of an imposition, as well as superfluous. Vocational guidance, in short, should make its own way on its own merits...
...token that he would allow certain of his remarks to be quoted, he gave permission to quote his remarks on quotation...
...token of the 250-year Byrd tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely...
James Joseph Tunney, retired fisti-cuffer, last week in Portsmouth, England, presented a silver cup to the Royal Marines as a token of goodwill from the U. S. Marines. But, earlier in the week, he had brewed illwill among newsmen...