Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University's motto applies to present as well as past truth. But present truth is more awkward than past and a concern for factual teaching is sometimes a simple disguise for evasion of present truth. Yours very sincerely, Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...
TIME'S motto, after 15 years, is still curt, clear, complete...
...regular course of study at Vassar, they have left it all to the fire department. In fact there is a rule forbidding girls to extinguish a fire, even if they can do it with a glass of water. "Lose a minute and save a fire" is their motto...
...seems that this rule was adopted last year when a girl found a fire blazing in her waste basket. Guided by the motto "Save a minute and save a house" she tossed the burning contraption out the window. But it landed right in front of a passing professor, who computed that a good fire and a professor's life were more worth saving than a minute and a house, and thus began the rule...
...Europe in the times of the Crusades, defeated her and captured European kings. Egypt threw British troops into the sea. Egypt's southern boundary extends as far as the equator. Egypt is the centre of the world, the Mother of Civilization, and the Cradle of all religions. Your motto must be: 'Allah, the Fatherland and the King...