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Word: justitia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post-War street signs, a moderate Fascist member of the City Council declared: " 'Hohenzollern Street' and 'Peace Street' are synonymous. Wilhelm II did more to foster peace while he reigned as Kaiser than any other monarch. The motto of the Kings of Prussia is Justitia fundamentum regnorum (Justice is the foundation of kingdoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...chloroform in capital punishment, etc. He wrote What Young People Should Know, The Brain of the Sheep, and many other books and papers, chiefly on the brain. In 1910 he became emeritus at Cornell, but continued to lecture and write. He wrote the words and music of Fiat Justitia, an international hymn for the first Universal Races Congress. He set Old Ironsides (by Oliver Wendell Holmes) and The Peacemaker (by Joyce Kilmer) to music. Before he died he set to work upon a history of the 55th Mass. Infantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Brain | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

There is talk about "dangerous precedents" and "If you give it to one you must give it to all". And what if it does set a precedent? How many men have served Harvard as faithfully as this aged old veteran. It is a poor sort of Veritas that denies Justitia. DANIET, ROCHFORD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 6/8/1922 | See Source »

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