Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Coach Jaakko Mikkola, it is a disappointment both to himself and his team. The Indians are entering a so-called "token team" in the Heptagonals, May 16, after their graduation, but a dual meet between the Heps and the next informal meet would have helped to condition Jaakko's runners for the all-important Yale affair...
Cyrus Curtis' great contribution to U.S. publishing was the discovery that U.S. advertisers were so eager to have a real mass medium that they would gladly pay the cost of printing the copies if Curtis would get the circulation, even if the reader paid only a token payment. With that discovery of low-cost mass publishing, Cyrus revolutionized the magazine industry, made more money than any magazine publisher ever had before -more, perhaps, than any magazine publisher ever will again...
...token raid. Though Aruba and Curaçao are flyspecks on the map, their refineries are two of the largest in the world. Only last week the State Department announced that U.S. troops had been sent to garrison the islands at the invitation of The Netherlands Government...
Spats & Monocles. But, for the Countess, the deathbed atmosphere of Rumania was best typified by the "Old Excellencies." There were two of these strange creatures in the lobby of the Athene Palace, "a kind of token force of a large army of some 700 living Rumanian former cabinet ministers, and of innumerable diplomats and generals." Wearing white linen spats and monocles, they sat at their table in the lobby from noon until midnight, studying "women's points." One Old Excellency had "the face of a sick greyhound." The other, "grey-haired and heavy-eyed," had a pointed beard like...
...shipment of 8,000 tons of grain which the Allies plan to send to their stricken ally is just a token. In Greece, as elsewhere in Occupied Europe, no one can be sure that relief supplies will not be grabbed by the Axis. Explained Mr. Dalton bitterly: "There is no guarantee, nor would we pay any attention to one given by the Germans. We are in this case running a risk in view of the appalling conditions caused by the Germans in Greece...