Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami Beach, where bookmaking is an industry, Police Chief P. R. Short dutifully made token arrests of three bookies, released them on $500 bond, and explained carefully: "We don't intend to bother the bookies. They don't bother...
Fast skating and dead-eyed puck handling completely befuddled the Varsity defense, which never managed to put up more than a token effort toward stopping the B.C. line. The Crimson's own offense, in the meantime, was effectively bottled by the hard checking Eagles, while their efficient goalie Bernie Burke disposed of any shots which got that...
...among those administrative officials who compile and publish the College's catalogue of courses. It has not yet rolled far. The vote of the Faculty in January to re-number all courses according to a new, simplified system, cogent as it is, in itself is little more than a token revision. Unless further revisions are made, the usefulness of the catalogue to students will remain substantially in its present, not fully satisfactory state. Within the next few weeks the Committee on Educational Policy will receive drafts from the various departments for next year's catalogue. The departments, as well...
...small Wallace vote, while it might not have the same inimical effect on Democratic chances, would, by the same token, produce few long range results because neither party would feel obliged to take account of the political ideology contained in the Wallace movement...
Crime and Punishment (adapted from Dostoevsky's novel by Rodney Ackland; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) is perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime and punishment is also a tense story of crime and detection. Before its arrogant Nietzschean murderer Raskolnikov (John Gielgud) is guided toward confession and atonement by a humble Christian prostitute (Dolly Haas), he is played with, cat-&-mouse, by the Moscow police...