Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, 77, Patriarch of Venice, is popular, devoted to charitable works, nonpolitical, lives up to his cardinal's motto: "Obedientia...
...gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...
...Mount Holyoke Seminary, thus making the present-day college in South Hadley the oldest institution in the United States for the higher education of women. The leader in the fight to found such an institution was Mary Lyon, who chose the above quotation from the Bible as the motto for the school...
...grumpy reporters around the bar at the Friends of China Club in Formosa, the two-edged motto of the day was, "Down with everything!" Censorship jointly imposed by U.S. and Chinese Nationalist forces last week reduced the 44 foreign correspondents on Formosa to reporting the Chinese Communists' attacks on Quemoy from scraps of released information, e.g., "An amount of supplies was landed...
Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor's motto in life has long been, "Having friends is better than having money." As the town's No. i host to sportsmen, writers and politicians, Shor built a reputation as a fabulous spender, was often broke but never for a moment lacked for loyal friends. Last week Shor had no lack of money, either. For $1,500,000 he sold his leasehold, which still has nine years to run, on his 51 West 51st Street restaurant, which he has operated since 1940. Purchaser: William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, which plans to tear...