Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should the Corporation adopt the suggestions of these professors, may I humbly suggest that the motto of the University be changed from "Veritas" to "Sic Transit Gloria Universities." Robert Lee Behrens...
...Washington to succeed him. In mid-July 1957, outgoing Secretary Humphrey took incoming Secretary Anderson to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see the first dollar bills coming off the presses with Anderson's signature on them. They were also the first U.S. greenbacks to bear the motto "In God We Trust," long familiar on U.S. coins. Grinned Anderson: "This is pretty rugged. I no sooner take office than there is an expression of lack of confidence...
Minus Mathematics. William Stuart Symington III (he trimmed the name to W. Stuart Symington as a businessman, dropped the W. when he got into politics) was an "extravagantly beautiful" child, recalls his doting sister Louise. Absorbing the household's bookish atmosphere-adorning the mantle was a Latin motto that translates as "Life without literature is death"-little Stu read so avidly that the family called him "the professor." As his Christmas present when he was ten, he asked for and got a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Vengeance Under Glass. Kubitschek's critics do not deny that he has been a builder, but wryly charge that Brazil's official motto, "Ordem e Progresso," has in the process become "Disorder and Progress." Kubitschek has printed almost as many inflationary paper cruzeiros (66.9 billion) as were printed in all of Brazil's previous history. He ignores Congress, shifts its appropriations to his pet projects-road building and Brasilia...
...Roston, there is no Harvard for Hyman Kaplan; not until the Fuller Construction Company leaves Quincy House's transient guest suite. Kaplan's motto is, "always go high." Maybe he'd best wait for the Leverett Towers...