Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Token diplomas were delivered to the 12 section leaders by Chaplain William D. Cleary, Commandant. Two members of the Chaplain School's faculty, Chaplain Owen W. Eames and Chaplain John J. Roche, respectively, offered the invocation and pronounced the blessing...
Major casualties among the 300 who gave up: Stanford, Fordham, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgetown. Individualist Harvard decided something was better than nothing, arranged "token" games for its A and B squads with Tufts, Exeter, Andover, Camp Edwards...
Walther von Brauchitsch was the son of Junker General Bernhard von Brauchitsch and socialite Elizabeth von Karstedt. The boy found his way to the Imperial Guards and the fashionable Elizabeth's Guard Grenadiers. Throughout World War I he was on the General Staff; in the postwar token Reichswehr he got a highly essential, secret job: Chief of the Department for Army Expansion...
...Company A men took advantage of the occasion to give a salve of cheers and a token of appreciation to First Sergeant Morris Isacowitz who is to be married shortly...
...landlord (silkily played by Cinemactor Henry Daniell) is the life of the piece, and Playwright Thompson handles him with a certain sophistication. But by the same token, he mishandles him. Putting Mayfair ahead of murder, he turns the landlord into a sort of Noel-Cowardish fancy talker, and the fancy talk sinks the play. It becomes tiresome in itself, lowers the tension, and worst of all, gives the audience time to spot what is coming next...