Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Epworth League, founded in 1889, for Methodist young people, has similar aims. Its motto is "Look Up, Lift Up"; its membership...
...operation of the mind Valery has examined in a way to which could be applied the motto of Leonardo, which he admires so much, "obstinate rigour." And with remarkable keenness he has applied what he has found to philosophical problems, to religious revelations, to the theory of poetry...
There was doubtless no subtle innuendo in this statement by the Times, whose motto is "All the news that's fit to print," although the motto of the Times's rival, the New York Herald Tribune, is "Complete news plus the best features." Generous, imperturbable, the Times can well afford to be. Despite much thunderous prophecy, the Herald Tribune's latest milestone, announced as passed last week, is only 300,000. Though 100,000 people represent only about 1% of the potential newspaper market in Manhattan and vicinity, 100,000 bona fide readers represent a very considerable...
...this order are a stubby pair of goat's horns and an elongated goat's tail. There may be added a hairy pair of goat's legs, but they are rather superfluous in a country that carries 24,000,000 automobiles on its highways. ... The motto seems to be, in the editorial sanctums where all this muck is compounded for public consumption, If it makes good, lewd reading-go the limit. . . . THE GOAT MEN HAVE SCALED THE BARRIERS AND COMMAND THE CITADEL...
...total self-destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better...