Word: symbolize
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...their business to win. The English, on the contrary, are more or less indifferent to the results; they are more concerned with the incidental pleasure and profit of competitive exercise. The Oxford-Harvard debate of last year, though in a quite different field, can be regarded as a symbol for this attitude. The University debaters gave a serious, well-developed argument, that easily won the decision of the judges; but their opponents, talking in a pleasant, casual way, provided more enjoyment for themselves and for the audience with less effort, and probably carried more conviction in their speeches...
...these one of the most inexplicable is 73 hf. A strange algebraic symbol probably, one expressive of some fearful incantation or curse known only to astrologers and other practitioners of the Black Arts. Accordingly to learn that this sign is merely the name of an English course is a matter of great surprise. But why burden an innocent course with such a handle as 73 hf? There are not 73 English courses in Harvard, including even that immense number of mythical courses offered every year but the present. The christening of English 73 must have taken place on the roulette...
...ancient Egyptian symbol for infinity was a serpent holding his tall in his mouth. It now transpires that the Egyptians had a much better symbol than ours of to-day, which is the complicated and arbitrary figure 8 inverted. For Einstein, and a colleague who comes forth as a second enemy of common sense, Dr. Weyl, have reached the conclusion that infinity is nothing more than a serpent with his tall in his mouth-merely an infinite circle...
...score. The game was called, they reasoned, in order to permit the baseball "magnates" to pocket the proceeds of the game, whose total considerably exceeded $100,000. The crowd had to find something tangible upon which to pour the vials of its wrath, and it readily found a visible symbol in the person of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball. Upon his head an angry and tumultuous crowd of between 5000 and 8000 poured invective after invective, and if Judge Landis escaped without bodily harm, it was due to no excess of charity on the part of the crowd that...
...years New York, to the average American in his moments of pessimism, has summed up in one gigantic symbol everything connoted by Wall Street, the crowded fifth of the East Side, the conspicuous failure of democratic government; above all the noise, confusion, and materialism of American life raised to the n-th degree. Consequently, the announcement yesterday of the launching of a vast scheme to create a greater New York in the true sense of the word, a scheme planned and backed by Wall Street, to be carried out in cooperation with the East Side and the rest...