Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. (TIME, Feb. 21) One Paolino Uzcudun, Spaniard, unofficial champion of several European precincts, climbed into the ring with one Knute Hansen,* semi-ferocious great Dane. At the end of ten mildly bloody rounds Uzcudun's hand was held aloft by the referee in token of victory. The small crowd was amused but unimpressed; predicted an early cropper for Paolino...
Officer O'--- failed to produce the mythical seventy-five cent cigars which, according to rumor were received as a token of esteem from unknown admirers in Princeton, N. J. The magazine was discussed no further, for the officer read only with difficulty in the absence of his spectacles...
Against the Blue the Harvard team maintained the pace it set in the encounter with the University Club. If Yale had started Warner, the game might have been closer for the first-period goals by Scott and Clark should never have reached the net. But by the same token, if Harvard had not utilized an all-substitute defense composed of Coady and Howard at the end of the second stanza, Knight's goal would probably have been averted...
...arrival in the hamlets was received much as the children greet circuses in our small towns. After much gaping staring and laughter the chiefs most of them nice old fellows would step forward to greet us. An exchange of presents was the usual token of friendship. They are extremely fond of tobacco down there in fact so much so that it is used as currency the value being determined by the size of the heads. We carried a tremendous supply with us for trading purposes...
...store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker Rudolph S. Hecht of New Orleans and his associates. They, in their turn, had bought out the Huyler family interests a year...