Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still runs Knox with the same vigorous skill that in 30 years has made it a model industry in both profits and employe relations...
...over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme of July 14 and immediately make "token withdrawals" of Italians from Spain as evidence of the Tightness of these conclusions, the Prime Minister voiced his own pious hope that the last volunteer will soon be withdrawn. He then asked a vote of confidence on the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government...
...thousand of the foreigners now fighting in Spain shall withdraw from the Rightist and also from the Leftist side; 2) After these "token withdrawals," commissioners dispatched by the Non-intervention Committee shall ascertain with fair accuracy the numbers of interventionists, this with a view to the ultimate withdrawal of all in "progressive and proportional" stages; 3) When the Nonintervention Committee finds these large-scale withdrawals have reached a "substantial" total, the Great Powers are to grant full belligerent rights to the Rightist Government and to the Leftist Government...
Shearers are mostly nomadic Mexicans, who sleep in the open and travel in groups with their own Mexican cook. With electric clippers a good shearer can strip 140 goats a day. For each goat he is given a token which at the end of the week he turns in for about 4?. Shearers who have bad luck during the week at gambling may never get paid...
...activity at college is and must be the pursuit of some definite field of knowledge. It is true that the men who make study their only activity will find themselves limited as they get in the upper classes, not sharing in the activities of many. But by the same token the "popularity" men who do nothing but outside activities are likely to find at the end of their careers that they have missed something too. And so the most important task is to strike a satisfactory working balance between academic and outside occupations. And it is in helping Freshmen...