Search Details

Word: tokenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...indicative of a condition which is universal among college students, as is very likely, the man who was murdered some seasons ago for saying that undergraduates were more intelligent today than when he was in college should be awarded a niche in the Hall of Fame as a slight token of apology from a repentant society. His statement, apparently, had some slight foundation of fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RENAISSANCE | 5/15/1924 | See Source »

...would resent here at Harvard any action by an association which attempted to standardize or formulate detailed eligibility rules to control all our games with Yale and Princeton. We recognize in this instance an independence acquired by an athletically related group and by the same token standardization of eligibility rules by High Schools is impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEER STARTS CAMPAIGN FOR UNIVERSAL ATHLETICS | 4/26/1924 | See Source »

...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Green Bay Tree* | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...rash enough during Boston's annual two weeks of opera, when musical Boston gravitates or is supposed to gravitate towards the Opera House, to offer concerts to a public already well on its way to satiety. Yet there are managers who will risk such concerts and by the same token there is even now an audience for them. Any doubts on this subject were dispelled last night when Mme. Eva Gauthier sang to an audience that almost filled Jordan Hall at the same time Mary Garden was singing "Louise", in the Opera House. Mme. Gauthier showed a sense of humor...

Author: By A. G., | Title: CRIMSON REVIEWS | 1/30/1924 | See Source »

Mary, Britain's domestic queen, universally beloved for her interest in better housing of the poor, is to receive the most magnificent doll's house ever made as a token of affection from her subjects. Sir Edwin L. Lutyens, designer of the Cenotaph, London's great war memorial, conceived the idea, enlisted the coöperation of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: A Doll House | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

First | Previous | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | 476 | 477 | 478 | 479 | 480 | 481 | 482 | Next | Last