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...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

From Germany, where he has been studying artillery tactics, Japan's Prince Motomichi Mori landed in Manhattan on his way home, said he was eager to go to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Borden for Ruppel | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

KIRKLAND LEVERETTRobinson, r.f. l.f., GutermuthWinsaner, l.f. r.f., ReedMarlow, c. c., HenkleyHowe, r.g. l.g., HartmanJewell, l.g. r.g., Mori...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/21/1935 | See Source »

What the buyer wants, K. Mori & Co. feel, is a fountain pen so good that it will inspire awe. Even Japan's Imperial House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct. Latest pictures show the Divine Emperor's popular brother Prince Chichibu seated grinning in a Datsun (see cut). Screams a recent Datsun advertisement: "FIRST NO LAST." This peculiar sales argument is stated more fully thus: FIRST Motor Car Produced in Japan In Performance and Quality In Public Favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Awful | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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