Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occasion for this expansive gesture is the 50th anniversary of George Eastman's entry into the camera business. It will be "a token of appreciation to [those] . . . who have played so important a part." Also, says the Eastman announcement, it will be "a means of interesting hundreds of thousands more children in picture taking." In other words, Mr. Eastman's celebration will by no means be a purely-sentimental one. Film-rolls for the $1.25 Hawk-Eye cost 25¢, developing and printing six Hawk-Eye snapshots costs about 40¢ Eastman sales will be swelled by Eastman generosity since...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
...means of which he may, if he wishes, secure her pardon. In his last hour, he entrusts this to the Queen's messenger, a court lady whose love he has spurned. She betrays him, informs Elizabeth that he is still arrogant, has made no mention of the token. When the Queen learns the truth, the axe has fallen. As it has cleaved the neck of Essex, so it splits Elizabeth's aged, remorseful heart...
...despatch from Amsterdam described the Minister of Public Works as "enthusiastic" about the slot-doorbell, quoted His Excellency as determined to provide postmen with token coins which will enable them to play cheaply the game of making doors go "Bong...
Though newsmen could not get the canny Scot to unpurse his "reasons" they passed over the cables his token coins of optimism. Meanwhile the U.S. Congress voted $150,000 to sustain the U.S. delegation at London's Ritz Hotel, when advised by the President that their original appropriation of $200,000 has been spent. Conservative estimates placed the cost to the five powers of achieving what Mr. MacDonald called "Confidence" at roughly $1,000,000, or a trifle over $14 per minute night and day since the conference assembled (TIME...