Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head tutor has nonchalantly spoken of the former as: "Sable, three blunted darts, one in pale and two in saltire, held in a hand couped at the wrist, all in argent. Crest, a stag's head caboosed, or with a pheon azure between the attires. Motto, Occasionem Cogosce...
...world of their fathers, 'being whipped into shape by the young Communists. In the Communists he finds a "new priesthood" who neither drank nor believed in God "because both of them clouded one's brain," whose courage and self-denial he finds comparable to the Jesuits, whose motto, in one case, ranked religion with drunkeness, smoking and hooliganism...
...Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There is no expedient a man will not resort to, to avoid the real labor of thinking." Then he added : "The aviation industry might take that as its motto." His questions clearly indicated that Inventor Edison has remained aware of the fundamental problems of flight, has not filled his head with every detail of development. Most serious to him is the danger of landing in fog. Said he : "Radio, at the present time, is a bit too delicate...
...Arts degree at Harvard in 1906 after spending a year in the Graduate Schools, declares that a school of business can never make business a profession in the sense that law and medicine are professions. He says that the Business School is Harvard's greatest offense. The Harvard motto "Veritas", he declares, may be some day changed to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria...
...cover the steel tower with glass?' . . . How utterly must he have been disgusted to see stone vaults, instead of supporting the roof, being supported by the roof! Or to see buttresses, instead of holding up a wall, actually being held up by steel! All this in the university whose motto is Lux et Veritas. There is not one suggestion of Veritas in the Sterling Library; and for that matter there is precious little...