Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of Francis Bacon to the sixteenth century to the present day. Bacon was the discoverer of scientific research as we now know it, such research, Whitney emphasized, is an organized and continuous search for new truth, and he used a striking example when he referred to the motto of Harvard University "Veritas." Veritas is the ultimate truth and he remarked that research has for centuries been chipping away at "veritas" and will continue to do so as long as any undiscovered truth remains. The problem, he said, is an endless adventure which the American people have engaged upon...
...days, Wisconsin beer-drinkers frequented the Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed...
Vital to the coal business, the decision was significant for all business because it was one of the Supreme Court's most liberal interpretations of the anti-trust laws. The emphasis it placed on the social purposes of a business combination coincided with a prime Rooseveltian motto: "It's not what you do, but how you do it." If Franklin should follow Theodore in holding that there are "good" trusts and "bad'' trusts, the executive arm of the Government would be in complete agreement with the Judicial arm. Dicta of the Chief Justice...
Almost alone in preferring gold to paper as pocket currency for everyday use are Dutchmen. They like to jingle heavy guilders on each of which is stamped the motto & promise of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House: "I will maintain!" In The Hague last week pompous Mynheer Doktor Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank, mentioned an obvious fact: no "run" to exchange Dutch paper money for gold can possibly perturb the Netherlands Bank. Reason: the entire paper currency of the Netherlands is backed by a gold cover...
...Listen & Learn" is a favorite motto of President-elect Roosevelt who was expected to do just that with the testimony Senator Harrison had adroitly arranged to have adduced before the Senate Finance Committee. Another "Listen & Learn" session for the new President also came to light last week with the announcement that he had invited all State Governors in Washington for the inaugural to meet him at the White House March 6. At that conference President Roosevelt will get the benefit of their collective ideas on the following topics: 1) Federal and State tax conflicts; 2) Federal aid for the jobless...