Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates who are designated with a cabalistic ocC., the time of their passing is significant of frustration overtrumped, of delay ignored, of a quiet determination to outpace their starters that was accomplished in Christian humility...
...original purpose was "to provide a foundation both for further study in the classics and for the study of modern literature and civilization." The success of these meetings and the general interest which has been demonstrated towards them by those concentrating in that field has been but one more token of the increasing intimacy between students and their instructors, between those who learn and those whose business it is to teach. Compulsory for men taking certain introductory courses in Latin and Greek, these conferences have resulted not only in broadening the student's knowledge but also in maintaining a vital...
...theatrical season just past was marked by a run of mystery melodrama.* The theatrical season just beginning promises by token of Blood Money to continue in the same bloody tradition. A mystery melodrama is a play that starts with a murder and ends in a surprise. Here the murder is incident upon one Senator Bolton, who just before his death wrapped up $100,000 in a brown paper envelope consigned to nobody. The surprise, according to reviewing ethics, must not be divulged. Let readers know, however, that beauteous Phyllis Povah, who plays as sec- retary to the Senator whose demise...
Presented to HON. HERBERT HOOVER In token of appreciation and gratitude for his wonderful work and sympathy...
...favor to my guest I offered to weigh him on the baggage scales. What a figure he made the arrow jump to! It exceeded the maximum weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then in token of friendship we weighed ourselves standing on the scales together, hand in hand. This would have made a fine picture for the papers." Author Raucat's book? laughing, ironic, fantastic, sad?mingles the gayety of two nations; should excite the admiration of a third...