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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following is a tentative schedule of graduation agenda of the Junior class--10-43-NTS Harvard. Class flower: spinach; class motto; Horas omnes reported Most likely to succeed: Admiral King; most handsome: Lt. (jg) Robert Taylor; Best duty: Betty Grable (howinhell did that get in here...

Author: By Ens. GUY Osborne, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/25/1944 | See Source »

...Seabees' high-sounding motto: Construimus-Batuimus (We Build, We Fight!). Their favorite slogan, in words they can all read: "Can Do, Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Can do, Will Do - Did | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with his own pattern of letters, engineering reports, and half a dozen straight-stemmed pipes. On the front of the desk is the Douglas coat of arms.* On it is inscribed his Scottish forebears' motto: Jamaiz arrière (never behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passionate Engineer | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Hammer | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...Butte's oldtime motto, "Spend it while you've got it and don't cry when it's gone," and the hell-roaring characters who lived up to the motto. Among them: Larry Mullins, a mine shoveler, who inherited $3,500 and spent it by installing a public harem in a hotel suite where he played host for a riotous three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncorseted Wench | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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