Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
...their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the uninitiated. The result has been sometimes stuffy, oftentimes overreaching, but usually stimulating. Such first-rate writers and critics as Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro and Robert Lowell were paid $3 a page. Thanks to Publisher-to-be Dowling, Partisan Review will now offer 2½? a word for prose, 50? a line for poetry, beginning with next January's issue. Furthermore...
Even the present session is likely to be a pallid reflection of an ordinary term. Many of the first string instructors are in Europe or otherwise absent. An enrollment of less than fifteen hundred is hardly enough to support anything more than token extra curricular activities. Sports there will be, but only for the participants, not for the spectators. They will be extremely informal. Publications will be scarcely better off. The "Advocate" and "Radditudes" are not scheduled for the summer. Such activities as remain functional will be operating on a reduced schedule...
...after the Dean had done with the preliminaries, he turned to the token sheepskin before him with a mind focused on other and larger things. Or maybe the doctor was disturbed by the contagion possibilities inherent in such a crowded gathering...
After an anthem by the Choir, President Conant awarded token degrees to the several Marshals representing graduating groups. He then awarded honorary degrees to 12 leaders in the fields of arts, science, literature, and public affairs, following which the ceremony was closed with a singing of the Commencement hymn and a final benediction by Dean Sperry...