Word: mottoes
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...Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply sit on the roadside and check and recheck the truck manual...
They rented a grassy lot for their trailer home at the Lazy Days RV Campground, near a dog track in Hitchcock, Texas. Rusty had no intention of returning to the house in suburbia. Not yet. They were living out a new family motto: Travel light. "We had expenses. We didn't have a budget," Rusty says. "We just kind of lived. We took it easy...
...newborns to onyx mourning crosses to remember the American Civil War dead. Tiffany's designers often worked with such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi River pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto is that Mother Nature is the best designer." From a delicate diamond-and-sapphire dragonfly hair ornament (circa 1895) to an Art Deco platinum-and-diamond necklace that invokes the Manhattan skyline (circa 1930), the exhibition illustrates how Tiffany's has achieved international renown for truly American craftsmanship. Holly Golightly...
...newborns to onyx mourning crosses to remember the American Civil War dead. Tiffany's designers often worked with such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi river pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto is that Mother Nature is the best designer." From a delicate diamond-and-sapphire dragon-fly hair ornament (circa 1895) to an Art Deco platinum-and-diamond necklace that invokes the Manhattan skyline (circa 1930), the exhibition illustrates how Tiffany's has achieved international renown for truly American craftsmanship. Holly...
History must not be treated as something set off by itself," said Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, and that could well be the motto of our Making of America series. I'm Rick Stengel, and I'm delighted that my first issue as managing editor of TIME is our fifth annual Making of America issue. One of the great missions of TIME since we started 83 years ago has been explaining the challenges of the moment in the context of history--and relating the values of our history to the challenges of the moment. That's why we started the series...