Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk comperising the undergraduate population have always been half-hearted, but in the past, Harvardmen have had enough leisure moments to work out a hit or miss social schedule of their own that could carry them through four years in Cambridge. Organized recreation now chiefly consists of a few token record dances and an annual class smoker...
Parties and informal entertainments were sharply curtailed due to the inflation and Yale Game pinch. Some enterprising individuals in the river Houses managed to furnish enough watered Scotch and sherry for token Thanksgiving celebration...
...sense is another nation's high blood pressure." But having there stumbled within grappling distance of the world problem, shy, melancholy Author White characteristically sideslips and waves his wild flag modestly from another corner of the lot: "Somebody, we thought, should seize the halyard and run up a token banner to symbolize the world community, even if it were only a pair of scanties...
...turn of the Russian tide had diverse signs: Andrei Vishinsky, in token of the new Russian conciliatory line at the U.N. Assembly, went to Mass; Chou En-lai went to Nanking; an order for removal of the Zeiss factory went to Jena (see FOREIGN NEWS). Noting the signs, the West would do well not to crow in triumph; at best, democracy had won only time to put its own addled house in order, clear up its own inconsistencies and injustices. But in winning that time, the policy of "patience and firmness" to Russia had paid...
...same token, Hollywood was far from happy about the future. The big increase in operating costs, which had tripped up many another industry, was getting ready to catch up with Hollywood's supercolossal profits...