Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York last week, the sailing of the S. S. Manhattan was delayed for more than half an hour by the business of hoisting the white Olympic flag, ornamented by five interlocking red, blue, black, yellow and green circles and the motto Citius, Alt ins, For tins (faster, higher, stronger). Attending this ceremony were 45 members of the U. S. team of 79, sailing to compete this year in the Fourth Winter Olympic Games next month at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Their departure was the most important sports news of the week...
...Greeks! Remember what the nation accomplished under my father [King Constantine], how we progressed toward the fulfillment of our dreams. Greeks! My ancestors' motto will also be mine: 'My strength lies in my people's love...
...outdone by the famous Roman S.P.Q.R., the Boylston Chemical Club has adopted for its new motto "S.M.D.R.," which does not mean Sulfur, Molybdenum, Dsprosium, and Radium, but rather "Speakers, Movies, Discussion, and Refreshments." This policy is in honor of the fiftieth year of the club, which was founded by T. W. Richards in 1885. It was successfully tested at the first meeting (September 30, 1935) which was attended by approximately one hundred and fifty men interested in chemistry. The movie "Story of Steel" opened the meeting, and was followed by a talk by Professor Grbunnell Jones about the lactic acid...
...last two years, by making a specialty of melodrama, the English cinema industry sometimes appears to have taken its motto from the words of a song popular in the U. S. a year ago. ''Here Come the British with a Bang, Bang." The Thirty-Nine Steps is the most effective demonstration to date of Director Alfred Hitchcock's method of artful understatement and its success, which has already been sensational abroad, should be a lesson to his Hollywood imitators. The film is an adaptation of a novel written 20 years ago by John Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir...
...Initials of a Greek motto meaning "Philosophy, Life's Guide...