Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drizzle which threatened to keep the team indoors. The morning session was held in the cage with special emphasis placed on blocking. In fact, the bulk of the day was given over to this essential and Coaches Walsh, Fesler and Lane worked all afternoon on the blocking problem. The motto this year is, "Nobody on the squad who can't block" and the players are certainly getting a dose of medicine in that direction...
...accident that "Wine, Women and Song" has come to be the motto that the world ascribes to the easygoing, peace-loving Austrian...
...Oglethorpe there. He gave some of his own money to start, talked a quarter million dollars out of civic-proud Atlantans, made 101 trips through the South to raise another quarter million. On the cornerstone of New Oglethorpe's first building, laid in 1915, was engraved the pious motto Manu Dei Resurrexit (By the Hand of God She Has Risen from the Dead...
...charter two years later for the exclusive trade of all territories watered by streams flowing into Hudson Bay. No gunshot had ever sounded there and caribou and grizzlies roamed the bleak and ragged wastes undisturbed, when Prince Rupert's little company settled down to business, taking as their motto "Pro Pelle Cutem" (Skin for Skin...
...Chicago last week there was a notable directors' meeting, not for big corporations but of Rotary International, whose crest is a cogwheel and whose motto is "Service above Self-He profits most who serves best." To 1,000 lunching Rotary Clubs throughout the land and to the city where Rotary was born 29 years ago. the directors brought messages of Hope. Goodwill and a Bright Future from all over the world. Samples: "India faces the future with confidence." -Frederick Ernest James, Madras planter and Honorary General Commissioner of Rotary for Middle Asia. "Leaders of China are engaged in reconstruction...