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Word: token (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure of meeting you I address you on purpose as "Dear Friend." I am looked upon by representatives of the British Government as a great, if not the greatest, enemy of the British. Since I regard myself as a friend and servant of humanity including the British, in token of my good will I call you, foremost representative of the British in India, my "friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Mahatma and Viceroy | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

From Chungking for the occasion came a scroll which, inscribed in President Chiang Kai-shek's own hand, bore a happy token for the future of China House and U.S.-Chinese friendship. Wrote the Generalissimo: "The way is one and the winds blow together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: China House | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Myitkyina had been taken at last, but for General Joseph Stilwell there was taste of bitter tea in the victory. Among the troops taking part were only a token few of Brigadier General Frank Merrill's famed Marauders, organized especially for the north Burma campaign. The cold fact was that Merrill's Marauders had "blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,OPERATIONS: The Bitter Tea of General Joe | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...totaling about $3 billion, have been filed with the Bureau so far. Under the vague phraseology in the law, almost every corporation which can collar an unemployed lawyer can gamble a few thousand dollars with a chance of winning a rebate many times as big. But by the same token the money spent to prepare a claim is likely to be a bet on the whim of a tax official. The lawyers know this, and thus are engaging in an unprecedented amount of paper work. One big company submitted a 900-page rebate claim. Another sent in a 100-page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lawyers' Paradise | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they succeeded in joining, it would be only a token. The real consideration in this remote. Godforsaken battleground is a road-and the road has to wait for clean-up in the rear, and until other terrain suitable for road-building is cleared by the fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF BURMA: Pick's Pike | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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