Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a heart an inextinguishable fire." These words were delivered by Holmes in 1886 in a speech before the Harvard Law School Association. In the 46 years since then, the spirit of mutual good feeling between the great judge and the Harvard Law School has never diminished. As a token, therefore, of admiration, Justice Holmes was presented a special bound copy of the Law Review last Sunday on his birthday...
...best theatrical organizations in America could do no better with a play which has intrinsic qualities of dramatic strength and romance, if I may use the word. It seems only fair for the public to expect a polished and finished production under such circumstances. And, by the same token, it is most unfortunate for them to spend money and time on such a piece of intellectual sterility. If anyone has a sincere desire to know the drama and romance of the reign of Elizabeth I advise him to spend the two dollars on Froude's volume about the Queen...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...
...formal dinner before the game Moushegian was presented with a gold basketball by his teammates in token of his notable work so far this season. The Summary...
...field whether it were theology science, history, or engineering, but he outdid the American in the fluency with which he spoke other languages. It was a love of learning that led Kaiser Wilhelm to send the wonderful collection of casts to the Germanic Museum as a token of his interest in Harvard...