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Word: mottos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 »

...grey line" of cadets who have gone before. For more than a century and a quarter West Point has been equipping the country's military leaders. It is with pride for the past and ambition for the future that the Corps boasts of the real tradition symbolised by the motto: DUTY--HONOR--COUNTRY

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEST POINT LIFE HAS ITS QUOTA OF UNIQUE CUSTOMS | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward making Washington the "model" promised by President Hoover, would be quietly taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Times & Places | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

This seems a blemish on Boston's coat of arms, a blind-deaf-mute behind bars on a field sable, with motto "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil." But it can be forgiven on the premise that actions speak louder than words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLD EVERYTHING | 9/20/1929 | See Source »

Alteration. In January, 1775, two men, John Dixon and William Hunter, became the Gazette's joint editors. They enlarged it, added another column on each page, front-paged the motto: "Open to All Parties, but Influenced by None...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In San Francisco | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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