Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Period. Statistics are not the most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...
Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: "Here, Mr. Rockefeller, take this as a little token of your wonderful drive. Be sure and don't spend it too fast...
...newspaper editors and politicians spend months debating what course a man will follow; the thing to do is ask his wife. For it has just come to light that Mrs. Coolidge, five weeks before the famous "choose" message, embroidered into a White House coverlet the dates 1923-1929 in token of her stay there, thus predicting by her infallible womanly intuition what the mere men of the country did not accept as true for many months after. If only every candidate for office were married, the need for conventions and elections to make a selection would be avoided; but cases...
...Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...
...entire bay of the nave of the Cathedral which is now rising was built by contributions from the sporting world. In token of that service stained glass windows in that bay will depict the finish of a horse race, two boxers squaring off at the gong, the follow-through at the end of a single to center field, and other episodes in a score of athletic fields...