Word: motto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the controlling factor in admitting men is distribution, as applied to home-state, school, and field of concentration. While "follow your friends" is always a good motto in selecting a House, beware of applying for admission to the same place as all your prep-school mates, particularly if your scholastic rank is lower than theirs...
...main points of the affirmative were the motto, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" and the claim that wives would keep students from "wild excursions to Smith, Vassar, and Scollay Square.' In addition, William G. Matthews '43 of the Gold Coasters asserted that the plan would improve the language of undergraduates immeasurably...
...totally unexpected move, the American Student Defense League last night merged with the Committee for Militant Aid to Britain after dissolving itself as an individual, independent organization. The combined societies will have for their new motto that "the United States extend to the enemies of totalitarianism, especially the British Commonwealth of Nations, all the aid which may be necessary to insure the defeat of the totalitarian states...
...dollar devaluation: "The motto 'In God We Trust' on the dollar should be changed to 'I Hope That My Redeemer Liveth...
...good a thing for totalitarianism to miss. Instead of the Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared." Italy's Balilla leaders preached: "Believe, Obey, Fight"; instead of democracy, "Mussolini is always right." Naziism began its youth organizations with a will, started pumping them full of fine Nazi phrases: "There is no greater honor than death for the Führer," "Command and we follow...