Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strictly scientific fields, chemistry affords the most complete vocational training of any department in college. Because of efficient organization, highly qualified personnel and excellent laboratory facilities, it offers concentrators as thorough a background in chemistry as can be obtained anywhere in the country. But, by the same token, it is one of the most exacting fields. Once in the field a concentrator must take more courses of a limited nature than in any other field and must be prepared to spend on an average from two to three hours in the laboratory a week if not more...
From present indications, these special schools will probably not be large enough or numerous enough to make this training more than a "token payment...
...first time Italians took part in the raids. Their part was apparently a mere token, granted by Hitler to Mussolini so that II Duce could feel that he was helping, granted by Mussolini to his people so that they could feel easier about British raids on Italy. The Italians' first effort was certainly a token. Five Italian bombers surrounded by swarms of Messerschmitts tentatively approached Dover, saw squadrons of British fighters, dropped their bombs in the sea, then turned around and skinned for camp, while the Messerschmitts proceeded inland for serious business...
Such an outpouring of ballots had never been seen in U. S. history. In New York City 95%-plus of the registered voters had voted-an almost unbelievable turnout-a token of aroused feeling, of the bitterness of division among the electorate...
...Japanese claimed hits on a vital bridge over the Mekong River; the Chinese said that no hits had registered and that new, giant ten-wheel trailer trucks were carrying the stuff of war into China faster than ever. But whatever the rate of future shipments, last week's token arrivals were worth their weight in dead Japanese...