Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never lose sight the goal...
...have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...
...Keep young" is Bob's motto. "That's happiness," he said. "I was an athlete in my day. My mother wanted me to be a musician, but I wouldn't study of practice. I keep in the jollities of the students though, and am pretty lively I am comical . . . I have that gift...
...proceeds from Mr. Packard's eminently successful motor car.* Even as Asa Packer caused one of Lehigh's buildings to be inscribed with his name, so now might Mr. Packard, nor would it be unfitting to carve below the new laboratory's name the logical motto: "Ask the man who owns...
...Habsburgs are at it again. Remembering the family motto that a man may be down but never out as long as there is anything marriageable in sight the Archduke Albrecht has been paying court to the Italian Princess Giovanni and seems to be at least a Habsburg chin ahead of his Hohenzollern and Wittelbach competitors. That the family fortunes fully warrant this recourse to the final remedy is illustrated by the spectacles of the Empress of Mexico dying in Belgium and of the Empress of Austria living in Madiera...