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...such a task. Get in touch with us. . . . P.S. We are individual, just father and son. We also will clean up the hogs in six weeks. My father is social, but when wild hogs go fooling around him he knows how to kill them. Our weapons are shotguns. His motto is 'Be Prepared.' I hope we can clean up the hogs for the Turks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Hoggers | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...well beloved pieces. It is the story of a career man in the cabinet, just about to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, who meets again a friend of his boyhood and awakens sleeping memories that remind him of all he has missed in marrying and raising a family whose motto is Success. On a political visit he sleeps once more in the old bedroom where the boy once slept, and in a fantastic and pathetic dream sees the boy he might have been deadened and frustrated by the success he has willed for himself. He makes an effort, but life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROGERS COMPARES MILNE TO BARRIE IN CRITICISM | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...another, if you are not a member, the charge of admission is one dollar. How can you expect the younger members to know anything, when the older ones act as exclusive as they do. Let the non-members and the independents get together and put up a man whose motto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Good Old Mac! | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set of ends. . . .* We have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale team in action, I am happy to tell you that you will find the players appropriately arrayed in helmets of a glistening white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard-Yale | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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