Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penetration of Tonkin was first of all a movement against South China, it was also the first move in consolidation of the flanks preceding an attack on Singapore. Since Thailand last week showed itself in complete sympathy with the Japanese by sending over French Indo-China a lone "token" bomber, and since there is a good railroad from Haiphong to strategic Saigon to the south, this single stroke practically sewed up the western flank. The eastern flank, comprising the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, was also partially blanketed-by the three-way pact. The pact was largely directed...
...Manhattan's Surrogate's Court appeared a Mrs. Estelle Lynn Werner to sue the estate of Daniel J. Leary, late lumber baron, father of international bachelor-girl Cosmopolite Beth Leary, for $1,750,000 in securities which she claimed was given her in token of "our beautiful friendship." Commented Leary's executors, replying to her suit: "Baseless . . . utter fraud typical of the immoral . . . relationship out of which it has grown...
...Shinto. But elsewhere in the Japanese Empire both Catholics and Protestants, with the sanction of their home mission boards, have paid obeisance at the shrines-thereby, according to many strict believers, taking the first step in apostasy. Early Christians chose martyrdom rather than do the same thing; make a token obeisance to the deified emperor of Rome...
...solemnly served them while umpires stretched their imaginations. There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill out the National Guard's complement of rolling stock...
...measure of goods consumption, bank debits include too many other transactions to be reliable. But by the same token they measure general spending better than such partial indexes as retail sales. Bank debits include checks drawn by little businesses as well as big, the checks cashed by small employers to pay their help, the checks with which individuals pay their bills, etc. (Bank debits in 131 trade centres after seasonal adjustment recently declined so severely that it was the major factor which last week carried TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to a new two-year...