Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscription Now. Both Defense Minister James Layton Ralston and Navy Minister Angus MacDonald had declared publicly that they needed no conscripts to augment the flow of volunteers. But they and others led the Cabinet faction demanding immediate conscription, as a token to the eight English-speaking provinces that the Government accepted the popular mandate for conscription...
...performances galore when the cream of the Eastern League crop meets in the Stadium tomorrow for the annual Heptagonal games. Although it was feared that accelerated schedules would upset the apple-cart, all seven of the Ivy league squads will appear, but Dartmouth will send only what call a "token" team...
Exactly what the D. A. A. officials mean by the phrase is not clear, because they could send seven men down, token or no token, who could take 30 points with little trouble. Led by Sid Bull, second place winner in the IC4A two-mile run last winter, Bob Williams Don Burham, Uptegrove, and many more, all champions, bid fair to dominate the running events...
...gets air power on the Seversky scale, it will have bombers and multi-engined fighters able to fly 15,000 and even 25,000 miles, demolish any city on the globe, then return to their U.S. bases without refueling. And by the same token, says Sascha de Seversky, U.S. enemies will have fleets capable of visiting the same destruction on the U.S. He thinks that fleets of such planes can just about take over the main jobs of war, leaving only incidental mopping-up to ground armies and surface navies...
...great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult, but a mark of affection and esteem. Furthermore, it was a token more permanent and honest than the conventional photograph, since one's bottom changes less rapidly and radically than one's face, the latter being exposed to wind and weather as well as the ravages of time." The human face, Monsieur de Malancourt remarked, is like that...