Word: illegitimi
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan, 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum'* -Don't let the bastards wear you down-but in politics they do wear you down, as they wore down Steve's reluctance. I hope they don't wear him down any further." Despite his affection for Stevenson, he says: "Perhaps the time...
...means restricted to engineers, this tag has been popular in various forms with members of the R.A.F., the U.S. Navy (Non Illegitimi Carborundum), the Educational Division of the U.S. armed forces (Noli Illegitimi Carborundum) and the Harvard University Band (Illigitimum Non Carborundum). Thoroughly un-Ciceronian in all forms, it must be classed as illegitimate or Very Vulgar Latin...
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