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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holmes took down his violin and played an air that fortunately our guest did not recognize: Berlioz's March to the Scaffold. Then he brightened. "I have but one motto, Watson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of the Strange Erasures | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...obverse of the coin would bear the motto "All Are Part of the Web of Life," and would be circled about by a chain of earth, water, sky, microbe and man. The verso of the coin would carry the motto "There Is No Free Lunch," over a design of crossed bicycles rampant upon a field of Franklin stoves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1973 | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard, it is taken for granted, that the studio is outstanding. Association assumes superiority: Harvard is Harvard, home of every tub on its own bottom, and of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio (The Radcliffe Studio of Harvard University). One would think that it would be better able to handle that motto than most Harvard dependents--that its autonomy would be insured. That is not the case...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: ...For Whose Sake? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

John Gierak, athletic secretary of perenially low-finishing Dunster House, echoed Gerold's sentiment. "There aren't many jocks in Dunster House. English majors and drama are very big. But the people that do play are very spirited. Our motto is 'Don't let winning get in the way of a good time...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Fall Intramural Athletics: Lowell House Shines | 11/20/1973 | See Source »

...moderate income families, who are organized into over 38 local community groups from the Ozarks to the Delta. ACORN has been in existence for over three years, and during that time it has, according to one of its members, been "fighting to see to it that the state motto of Arkansas, 'The People Shall Rule,' rings true." Austin Scott of the Washington Post called ACORN "one of the most challenging organizing projects going right now," and went on to write about ACORN that "the name of its game is not welfare, or help for the unfortunate, or social justice...

Author: By Steven Kest, | Title: Who Is Responsible? | 11/13/1973 | See Source »

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