Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunities derived from his college training, he must be prepared to use these gains in useful services, both to the college and the community. It is frequently said that a man can get from college just as much as he is willing to put in. This is a true motto a far as it goes, but no college can be regarded as successful unless it produces graduates willing and able to support it for the benefit of future generations coming on. And it is significant that for over three hundred years Harvard has been perpetuated and improved...
...London, Heralds' College announced that new Earl Baldwin, formerly Prime Minister had chosen for his coat of arms the Latin motto "With the help of my God I leap over the wall," had further chosen as the supporters of his arms not the lion & unicorn but two white owls, symbolic of wisdom...
...After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with official leadership of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, and one of his first ideas was to create a united maritime front. For this purpose he sponsored the Maritime Federation of the Pacific with the longshoremen and seamen as the key unions. The motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." For the Federation's first president he hit on Harry Lundeberg, who was even more militant than he. This was such a boost for Lundeberg that he was soon given leadership of the Sailors' Union. Meantime the two Harrys...
...midcity St. Stephen's Episcopal Church heard his secretary observe that a number of local churches were being "put in mothballs." In no time lively, curly-headed Dr. Hart, longtime unofficial chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania, was propagandizing among his colleagues for an Anti-Mothball Society. Motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Last week the Society had more than a score of participating churches, busy not only in organizing steady services but in promoting an inter-church tennis tournament, an employment agency, weekly interdenominational stunt nights. At St. Stephen's stunt night the Anti-Mothball unit ceremoniously...
...long last, on the 80th day of siege, last week Bilbao, the city that has scorned capture for 700 years and the motto of whose red, white and green flag was INVINCIBLE, fell. At the end hardly a shot was fired. But every bridge across the Nervión River had been blown up as was the great Guecho arms factory, one of the prime prizes in Franco's drive on Bilbao. As was expected, Anarchists ran berserk for a few hours before the city was abandoned, murdered many a suspected Rightist sympathizer. As the Rightists moved...