Word: tokening
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Visitors, limited to 20 a day, will pay $2 each (mainly as a token of their seriousness), and will not be restricted by the usual museum ropes, guard rails and glass covers. To make way for the public, Du Pont is building himself a 30-room "cottage" nearby...
...less rigorous in his devotion to the woolly formulas of Social Credit. His public speeches still include occasional vague references to monetary reform, but there is no more talk of the $25-a-month bonus, although Alberta's current $70 million cash surplus would presumably permit a few token dividends. When some diehard...
Pacific Defense. "It has been suggested [by Russia] that the treaty ought to deny to Japan 'the inherent right of collective self-defense' and permit only a token right of 'individual self-defense.' That kind of a peace, in this present kind of a world, would be a fraud...
...fall back on some long circumlocution. Nevertheless, if Mr. Churchill's word be an invention (for all we know, it may have been imported from America-though we have never heard it before), it is not a very good one. It is difficult to speak, and by that token does not pass one of the principal tests to which new words should be subjected...
...same token, Protestants will "realize that it was precisely the Papal power at its fullest development which gathered the world into the dominion of Christ; . . . that without Papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals, the divine revelation would be forever at the mercy of human error and extravagance; that the inner kernel of Papal power . . . is nothing but service of the Church, nothing but a perpetual washing of the feet of the disciples...