Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coins bearing his likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird,'' the parrot-beaked, fat-bellied puffin. The 45 citizens of Lundy have not minded in the least. Trouble first began when a Devonshire court fined Sovereign Harman ?5 because he "did unlawfully, as a token of money, issue a piece of metal of the value of one penny [or puffin] contrary to section five of the Coinage Act of 1870." In his appeal before the higher court last week Mr. Harman said: "As is very well known, when anything serious occurs in Lundy the British Government...
...whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...
...Press. By the same token that "You're dead when they stop writing about you," you are unborn until they begin writing about you. So rule No. 5 declares: Get a Press! This is accomplished in several ways. The alter ego must see to it that editors get courteous, efficient service when they exhibit curiosity. Friends of editors may be asked to bring the editors to call, dine, have a drink. Writer friends should be encouraged to undertake character sketches. Greatest of all press handlers for the Messrs. Hoover and Smith were two New York women-Mrs. William Brown...
...William Rutherford Mead (McKim, Mead & White) gave Benito Mussolini 10,000 lire ($500) in gratitude for his aid in transporting the body of her husband to Rome for burial. Cyril Clemens, cousin of Mark Twain and president of the Mark Twain Society of Webster Groves, Mo., gave him as token of esteem the society's gold medal, inscribed: Mussolini-Great Educator...
...same token the Scholastic Aptitude Test offers far better criteria on a man's capacity than the New Plan. This is probably of more significance than the first point, for it indicates that the intelligence of a student can better be judged by a mental test than by a carefully prepared examination on the subjects that are drilled into him by secondary schools...