Word: motto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, George Lyman Kittredge '82, Theodore Roosevelt '80, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. Watt and his staff hang their shingle over the door. The magazine that appears tomorrow will bear the same motto. "Dulce est periculum." within its covers, and carry the same seal on its letterhead, the Advocate's traditional representation of Pegasus chained to a book. The College welcomes its oldest publication back to Cambridge...
...million. Its present head-and fifth in direct line of descent from the founder-is staid, bespectacled George Emlen Roosevelt, 59, a noted amateur chess player and yachtsman. He will be succeeded ultimately by one of his two sons or five nephews, in the tradition of the family motto: Qui Plantavit Curabit (he who planted will tend...
Craignez honte-Fear disgrace-is the motto of Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck family. It does not mean "Fear accusations." Poland's Communists, abetted by their comrades in London, used the technique of the personal smear campaign against British Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who faced it coolly. Then Polish Government officials simply refused to see Cavendish-Bentinck. Last week, his usefulness in Warsaw ended, he announced that he had been transferred to another post. London sources said it was a better...
...year-old Leo Corrigan wedged into Dallas' real-estate market 30 years ago as a want-ad salesman. His first venture was a neighborhood drugstore, built for $10,000 out of savings. It was also one of the few buildings he ever purchased outright. Corrigan's operating motto is: pay as little down as possible, let the .rent do the rest. Also: always build your apartments around a shopping center. As one project began to pay off, he would take out a mortgage to start another...
...York or bust," was the motto of most, who grew progressively more uneasy under darkening skies yesterday Meanwhile their friends back at the College were busting without even an attempt at the New York...