Word: tokenized
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...subject of considerable surprise that the latter remains very meagerly decorated. Years ago, when a fence surrounded the spot, an occasional wreath was deposited within. One little old lady used to appear regularly and translate the Latin inscription for the benefit of the curious. She always left some token of her esteem, apparently a smaller one each year, until the last, occurring about five years ago, was a single rose. The children of the neighboring Harvard Grammar School obey instructions and occasionally file to the spot, to leave some slight offering, gaze in awe at the name which they vaguely...
Occasion for this expansive gesture is the 50th anniversary of George Eastman's entry into the camera business. It will be "a token of appreciation to [those] . . . who have played so important a part." Also, says the Eastman announcement, it will be "a means of interesting hundreds of thousands more children in picture taking." In other words, Mr. Eastman's celebration will by no means be a purely-sentimental one. Film-rolls for the $1.25 Hawk-Eye cost 25¢, developing and printing six Hawk-Eye snapshots costs about 40¢ Eastman sales will be swelled by Eastman generosity since...
...Tokyo, Kenzo Adachi, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs, received a letter from Kiyoshi Nojima, in which the writer had enclosed the tip of his little finger as a token of sincerity...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
...means of which he may, if he wishes, secure her pardon. In his last hour, he entrusts this to the Queen's messenger, a court lady whose love he has spurned. She betrays him, informs Elizabeth that he is still arrogant, has made no mention of the token. When the Queen learns the truth, the axe has fallen. As it has cleaved the neck of Essex, so it splits Elizabeth's aged, remorseful heart...