Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This sentence, which occurs in the statement of the President, is the most stimulating idea that has appeared in a Phillips Brooks House report in many moons. It is embodied again in the statement by the chairman of the Social Service Committee, and is a working motto for all college philanthropic institutions that cannot be too warmly commended...
...half million men four years, but Washington, who "demanded for the future of this Democracy that her citizens be organized and trained in arms." A trifle sardonic, General Andrews began one book: "The Military Policy of the U. S. has been best expressed in its monetary motto: "In God we trust...
...newspapers are without a slogan or motto. The Chicago Daily Tribune, for example, runs that estimable sentiment of Stephen Decatur's: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." The New York World has an even longer battle-cry, a rhetorical utterance by Joseph Pulitzer defining the whole duty of newspapers. The chaste New York Times says merely : "All the news that's fit to print." The Springfield Republican lets it go at: "All the news, and the truth about it." The Louisville Courier-Journal clinches matters...
...have been taken both from the remaining members of the 1924 University team and form last fall's Freshman squad, have been placed under the supervision of Coach Farrell of the Track team for special tutelage. "No more Jumbering backs or lifeless linemen" is Coach Fisher's avowed motto for this 1925 team...
...industry, as in government, the old motto "In union there is strength" is popular and sometimes true. American Sugar Refining became interested in acquiring the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey. Unfortunately, politicians had previously made a mare's nest out of the alleged "Sugar Trust," and by a decree in United States vs. American Sugar Refining Co., the matter of future merges of this company had taken on a political and legal aspect. Prior to 1911 American Sugar Refining had owned National Sugar Refining, but was compelled by the courts to dispose of its holdings...