Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with a crest showing two arms crossed, the horny hands clutching a sprig of tea plant, a sprig of coffee plant. All his life Sir Thomas loved ships, owned a steam yacht before he was interested in sailing. He first challenged for the America's Cup in 1899 with Shamrock, followed...
...Other dinosaurs: double-beamed Diplodocus which measured 85 ft. along long tail and long neck; stocky Brachiosaurus which could look over a four-story building; the grappling Iguanodon; spike-tailed Stegosaums with a crest of bony armor-plate along his spine. Alligators and crocodiles are insignificant living relatives of the Dinosaurs who ruled the earth from 420 to 150 million years...
...Albany in time, towing his racing boat on a trailer. He had spent another night fitting out his boat-had only two hours sleep between Tuesday and Friday. Now he partly knelt, partly sat on the cushions in his bucking little ship, his red hair standing up in a crest, watching the curves of the narrow upper river between its marshy banks. Fourteenth at the start, he soon was racing for the lead with Ben Rhymer who lives beside the Hudson at Kingston and knows its every turn and tide...
Parts of the Dunster crest are embodied in the large center gate, which is flanked by two side portals. The inscription, beneath the motto "Mihi Parta Tuerl", reads: "In memory of Charles Chauncey Stillman, of the Class of 1898, these gates to Dunster House were given by his son Chauncey Devereux Stillman, Class...
...exactly resembled all the other forks at table, was of solid silver, engraved with an ornate crest supported between a lion and a unicorn rampant. It bore the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense...