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...your books be useful instead of dusty!" is the motto of the campaign, according to the Committee, composed largely of graduate students enrolled in the Regional Studies Program...
Pierian's members have not forgotten the "liquoring" activities of their predecessors, and every rehearsal is usually followed by a call of the traditional motto, "Sit Musa Lyrae Solers" and the still more traditional wine...
Churchill had a better argument for the university constituencies: "They dignify and widen the whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...hodgepodge coalition cabinet headed by Katayama, a Christian whose favorite motto is "Do not overdo," had done a surprising amount in eight months. SCAP-sponsored democratizing legislation, obstructed by previous cabinets, had Katayama's willing acquiescence. The Home Ministry, notorious for its "thought control" hammer lock on the Japanese, had been dissolved; a Labor Ministry had been inaugurated; a new criminal code and a new police system had been established...
Upgrade. At this point, when it seemed that Gandhi might die defeated in his battle against hatred, a wave of emotion swept India. With newspapers and radios carrying hourly bulletins of his sinking condition, Delhi's frayed citizens began to organize meetings and processions around the single motto: "Save Gandhi's life." Post-office employees stamped on every letter mailed in New Delhi the message: "Keep communal peace and save Mahatma Gandhi...