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Word: mottos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motto of this society might be: "We consider the honor of having been selected for the Army a sufficient reward." I think that such a society could recruit hundreds of thousands from among the non-gold-bricking element of the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Colby's Chamber of Commerce motto used to be: "Colby, The Taxless Town." Now it is: "Colby, The Home of Marion Talley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...country. And with the experimental production of plays which have been brushed aside by the big business element of the modern Theatre, the Dramatic Club can, as it has in the past, render invaluable service to the cause of American Drama. But "policy for policy's sake" is a motto which has never been in keeping with high standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICY PLUS | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...easily imagine what a torrent of protest you must be receiving and simply want to send you my sympathetic support. You have held the mirror up to nature with an unflinching hand, true to your motto "TIME brings all things." Not all things are good, and the straighter we look the bad ones in the face, the sooner we will achieve that state of perfection for which destiny must intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...European country this would have been done last week in similar circumstances. In France, however, it is not the custom to hold an election of Deputies between the fixed periods of four years. "Let the politicians patch things up as best they can," is Jean Frenchman's thrifty motto, for an election is costly, and the French as a race would always rather mend a broken flower pot with infinite trouble than buy a new one for 50 centimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: In Again, Out Again? | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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