Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proclaiming that "groceries' time has come," several Lowell House students recently organized Harvard's only known Grocery Society whose motto is "Vivere Melius Per Condimenta"--"Better Living Through Groceries...
Milano appeared to be overseeing the operation and those involved reported to him, Detective John Motto said...
...Ronald W. Reagan awards--first place, for pushing Mom, Apple Pie and Flag in a Harvard Context, to a Currier House hopeful who is running on the motto. "For Skill, For Experience, For Currier." Second place, for pushing Our Boys In Uniform in a Harvard Context, to the Leverett House candidate whose face fills in for Uncle Sam in a remake of the famous World War II "I Want You" recruiting poster. This candidate also snags the Richard M. Nixon Zealous Reelection Campaign Effort Award. His poster, according to a note on the bottom, is "paid for by the Leverett...
...lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto of the meeting: 'Only you can help yourselves,'" Moda'i said. "You know what? I agree...
...keeping with the old motto on its best-known product, "Milk from contented cows," Carnation has grown somewhat complacent in recent years. In more aggressive times it bought the Contadina tomato-products brand and created Friskies pet foods and Coffee-Mate nondairy creamer. But Carnation's last acquisition of any size was the $30 million purchase in 1973 of a company that makes class rings. Since 1980 sales have been flat (1983 revenues: $3.4 billion). Says Dan B. Williams, an analyst with Sutro & Co., a San Francisco investment banking firm: "Some observers think Carnation has been stodgy...