Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broke! (from the regimental motto, a piece of Hawaiian dice-shooting slang for "Shoot the works!") follows the outfit from a U.S. training camp into the heat of the Italian and French campaigns. It tells the story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...
...this Eliot House student could be met by the Corporation by squarely facing the recommendations made sometime ago in the little green-covered booklet concerning the means of improving the divinity School. It is time these recommendations were more than mere words. Or does the Corporation have as its motto, "Millions for modern architecture (I personally like it!) and not one cent for an up-to-date Divinity School?" Paul E. Killinger...
...their first argument, they point to "the five thousand students who consider Christianity to be a form of Truth." From this they conclude that is is "unfair that Harvard, whose motto is Veritas, has not adequately presented this aspect of reality." The issue of whether reality is adequately presented at Harvard is a matter of definition. the empirical definition of reality is based on objectivity, the United Ministry's on belief. Under the former concept, teachers for any course, including those on religion, should be hired according to their ability to teach. Their beliefs are no substitute for this ability...
...above recommendations for the following reasons. First of all, there is a nominal group of 5,000 students who considers Christianity to be a form of truth, and a smaller percentage of that number who considers Christianity to be the truth. It seems unfair, therefore, that Harvard, whose motto is Veritas, has not adequately presented this aspect of reality...
...Give 'Itler 'Ell!" was Ernie's motto when he joined Winston Churchill in the Coalition Cabinet in 1940. Like Winnie, but in his own Socialist way, Ernie seemed a reincarnation of John Bull. When Schoolmaster Attlee's Socialism supplanted Aristocrat Churchill's Toryism, it was Ernie rather than any of his more doctrinaire colleagues who symbolized Britain's New Order. But after he became Foreign Secretary, Bevin roared: "Everyone is expecting me to change our policy. They forget that facts never change...