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Word: mottos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future age old tales will be told how Professor Kittredge personally horsewhipped every man who dared to have a cold, and how, on the President's daily walks, the scuffings of the Presidential dog marked the spot where the next College building was to rise. But no Harvard's motto will still be "Veritas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition Is Young Idea, Not Musty Growth, at University | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...reverse side and gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks), on its reverse side and will receive in exchange the royal initials "G. R." (Georgius Rex), as will the two-shilling pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Coins | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...monarch whose crown is tottering. Last week was a bad one for me, but I'm man enough to take my beating without excuses--just as any Forecast would. I am giving Joe Jr. an example of huge moral courage, letting him learn anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi" And I said, "My son, remember this...

Author: By Joe Forecast, | Title: JOE STRENGTHENED BY OLD FORECAST SHIELD | 11/12/1927 | See Source »

...Blackshirts, as in the past 'see it through' must be our motto for the future. See it through with perfect discipline, absolute self-effacement. To perfect the instruments of the Fascist revolution, to multiply their strength, to temper their spirits for all future battles-these still are and ever will be the duties alike of leaders and followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fifth Anniversary | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...first response that the contest committee received, however, was not a slogan, motto, etc. It was a communication from the U. S. Post Office Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Scheme | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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