Word: tokenized
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Shearers are mostly nomadic Mexicans, who sleep in the open and travel in groups with their own Mexican cook. With electric clippers a good shearer can strip 140 goats a day. For each goat he is given a token which at the end of the week he turns in for about 4?. Shearers who have bad luck during the week at gambling may never get paid...
...activity at college is and must be the pursuit of some definite field of knowledge. It is true that the men who make study their only activity will find themselves limited as they get in the upper classes, not sharing in the activities of many. But by the same token the "popularity" men who do nothing but outside activities are likely to find at the end of their careers that they have missed something too. And so the most important task is to strike a satisfactory working balance between academic and outside occupations. And it is in helping Freshmen...
...other men. He has no desire to legislate for mature manhood under the prohibition rule. He is tolerant of every man's personal rights. He will serve a drink at his home to a guest of the age of discretion, if it is desired. By the same token he will use his utmost resources to spare the growing youth of this country from the pitfalls of alcohol. This, he believes, is the inner feeling also of those men who claim they 'can handle...
...State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000. Last week a defaulter answered. Hungary announced that on Dec. 15 it would make a payment of $9,828.16, first by a defaulting nation* since Great Britain ceased its "token" payments in 1933. Hungary's payment, also a token, amounted to 22.8? per dollar on the semiannual payment...
...soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell's fearful and wonderful vocabulary, plus his inability to jolly newshawks, had much to do with his unpopularity...