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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warn readers that the boasted freedom of the press has gone even in the country of Roosevelt. . . . The censor's scissors have gone over the copy of even the sacrosanct New York Times." Nazi proof of this fact was discovery of the Times's 45-year-old motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nazi Discovery | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Quietly working long hours in his plain office in Washington's grey stone Social Security Building, Donald Nelson made haste. On the wall still hung the motto he had put up there in the early days of the defense program: "A year from now, what will we wish we had done today?" He felt the pressure, but it did not affect his breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Takes Over | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...this one for Harris" is the motto of the Harvard mermen, for this will be the last meet in which their captain will compete before he leaves College in February to attend Business School...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Brilliant Brown Swimmers Face Crimson Here Tonight | 1/14/1942 | See Source »

...Uruguay raided 30 Axis-controlled political and military organizations, including "The Tenth Alpine Regiment" which flaunted a motto: "From the Alps to the Andes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Big Roundup | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly, in English: "Gentlemen, we'll lick the hell out of 'em. That is the motto of the Thai people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Chai-yo for Thailand | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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