Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, by the same token, should also celebrate, but with reservations, because by rights Harvard should disapprove of Christopher Columbus...
...been known, of course, the effect on prices would have been disadvantageous to consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...
...picture was taken, and apparently cautious King George did not want any possible inference to be drawn from what might be so cut and printed as to seem to be a picture of His Majesty posing alone with Princess Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little princesses were seen last week in new spring costumes of delicate powder blue...
Last year Hungary caused a mild flurry at the State Department by making a token payment of $9,826.16 (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week Hungary produced a more general Washington flurry when her Minister John Pelenyi made public the terms of a new proposal he had submitted to the State and Treasury Departments, proposal was that Hungary reduce the original $1,685,000 debt by subtracting the $478,000 it has already paid, pay the remaining $1,207,000 in $39,000 non-interest bearing annual installments over a period of 30 years...
Four copies of the marriage contract were signed, a white flag went up on the palace as token that the bridegroom had shaken hands with his father-in-law, first of 101 guns boomed out. Waiters rushed to the distinguished guests with trays of rose water and honey. All but the two officiating sheiks received solid gold candy boxes as wedding souvenirs. The two sheiks each got a Cashmere shawl...