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...this one for Harris" is the motto of the Harvard mermen, for this will be the last meet in which their captain will compete before he leaves College in February to attend Business School...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Brilliant Brown Swimmers Face Crimson Here Tonight | 1/14/1942 | See Source »

...Uruguay raided 30 Axis-controlled political and military organizations, including "The Tenth Alpine Regiment" which flaunted a motto: "From the Alps to the Andes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Big Roundup | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly, in English: "Gentlemen, we'll lick the hell out of 'em. That is the motto of the Thai people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Chai-yo for Thailand | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Although the whole nation had long had the sense that war was approaching, the country discarded its pre-war preoccupations slowly, regretfully, in the way that travelers across the plains were finally forced to throw away the lovely walnut bureau, the framed motto, the pictures of the graduating class, the heirlooms and excess baggage, when the going got tough. Some of the U.S. preoccupations in the week before war blotted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE NATION: Last Week of Peace | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...basement studio, surrounded by his buxom torsos and his latest model, a Paris university graduate named Dina (see cut), white-bearded Maillol accepts his domestic difficulties with an octogenarian's philosophy. His crusty motto: "The harder the stone, the pleasanter the work, because you can strike with all your might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maillol's Women | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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