Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week before the wondering eyes of Washington newsmen was founded still another chapter-the Potsdam Lodge -of the secret Knights of Yalta (TIME, March 11). Onlookers to the arcane ritual agreed that it was a worthy bearer of the order's (top secret) motto: "Hazy agreements-hazily arrived...
...boss was a little man with a neat white mustache and strait-laced ideals. He hung pictures of another great Texan on every wall at the plant, drummed Davy Crockett's motto ("Be sure you're right, then go ahead") into Son E. M. ("Ted") Dealey...
...beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost for the Highest." "That is the best thing I ever did, to think of that motto," he used...
...Founded in '76, Reborn in '48" is the motto that adorned the old Daily Princetonian banner when Nassau's undergraduate journalists changed the name of the wartime Bulletin January 5. Since September, when students began to expand the pint-sized news letter, the thrice-weekly sheet has amassed 57 progenitors, 17 of whom are executives...
...former Army mechanics who did not feel they could support their war brides on the salaries offered to them last week decided to risk their meager savings in a repair shop. Their motto: "We tackle anything." Principals in the firm: ex-Staff Sergeant Skeezix Wallet, and his friend Wilmer Bobble of Frank O. King's famed comic strip Gasoline Alley. In their first week, Wallet & Bobble spent most of their time repairing Christmas tree lights. Total take...