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Word: mottos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swope, like all successful business men, is of the opinion that the best results come from methods of fair-dealing, and there was a note of this spirit in his final words. "If you go forth with the ideal that Harvard holds aloft to you in its motto of 'Veritas', it seems to me that you will carry a message to the community, that is worth while carrying and which, in the doing, will give you a great deal of satisfaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITIES WAIT SAYS SWOPE AT UNION | 3/14/1924 | See Source »

...Lieutenant Hinton's talk about the NC4 flight was not altogether interesting for those of us who are favored with good memories. This brave young man evidently was conscious of this fact himself if WJZ was not. 'News while news is newsy' is our motto here at the Trib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Radio Reviewing | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...celebrated David Crockett chose for his motto the now familiar maxim; be sure you are right, then go ahead. And despite its triteness this slogan might well adorn the banners of educational reformers. But the question of just what is right is distressingly difficult. As usual the most apparent aspects of the problem have been attacked first, with the result that evils of the American educational system have been attributed almost solely to defects in the methods of collegiate instruction. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate College has, however, broached a problem which seems to pierce directly to the heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOBSON'S CHOICE | 3/1/1924 | See Source »

Never Mind Critics, His Motto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS COLLEGE MEN LIVE ON ONE STREET | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...showy and an individualist, but he bucks the line with the best of them. Highly versatile, he also runs around end well and can drop a goal from the field from the forty-five yard line. "Hit 'em where they ain't," he says, borrowing his motto from baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coolidge, Quarterback | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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