Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promulgation of scholarship and the free and unbiased search for truth. In the old yard, under the rain-drenched elms, where the statue of John Harvard contemplates the Cambridge scene, thousands of alumni rose and cheered as the three-hundred-year-old banner of Harvard, bearing the motto, "Veritas", was raised...
...named Arunah Shepherdson Abell breezed into Baltimore to start a daily newspaper which he called The Sun. Printer Abell's sheet differed from its six established daily competitors in policy- printing news rather than political discussions- and in price, which was 1? instead of 6? or more. Its motto was "LIGHT...
Hannan last week was the figure of a walking boy and the motto "a la Sainte Terre" (to the Holy Earth). "I designed the medal years ago," finished Dr. Finley. "It was when I was Commissioner of Education for the State of New York. I visited a home for incorrigible boys about 30 miles from my office at Albany. I talked to them about walking and promised a medal to the first boy who would walk to my office. One day six of them arrived. I had the medals made, walked the 30 miles to the school and delivered them...
...claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world in the face of its inevitable destruction. The religion of the contented inhabitants is moderation--even moderation in virtue. Their motto: "Be kind...
...lack vitality.") And of H. G. Wells: "What more damaging criticism can there be both of his earth and of his Heaven than that they are to be inhabited here and hereafter by his Joans and his Peters?" But Virginia Woolf's criticism is usually appreciative. Her critical motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of a whole-a portrait of a man, a sketch...