Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waterfront of Bilbao last week, city flags still hung from flagstaffs flaunting the city's 700-year motto: INVINCIBLE. The quayside was under fire from Rightist artillery, only six miles away a terrific artillery and aerial barrage had blown a gaping hole in el gallo (the rooster), Bilbao's vaunted triple iron ring of trenches. Rightist troops and trucks were pouring through. Shouted an exultant staff officer above the roaring of field guns: ''Bilbao is ours already, we can take it today, tomorrow, or whenever we want...
...amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD...
...Harvard to shape their destinies. For it is to these men that the union in general and the University in particular will look for support in the years to come. There can perhaps be no better words with which to send off a graduating class than the motto carved on the back of one of the gates of the Yard...
...parts of the undergraduate body in stopping on time will have to be forthcoming, for the enforcement authorities have not been completely to blame in this. But in general dealings with the students it is not too much to ask that the proctors bear in mind the old Wykhamite motto: "Manners maketh...
Similarly the action of the Federal Postmasters in two separate cities of Ohio, acting as they say under instructions from Washington, in refusing to accept for delivery perfectly legal packages is also what one would expect. "Remember your friends" is a good political motto. At Niles the evidence shows the postmaster there is going so far to preserve the sanctity of the mails as to show all packages addressed to Republic Mills to C.I.O. organizers for final approval. This is really remembering your friends in a way they are not likely to forget...