Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is a fitting motto for the Institute. It also describes the education of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who by all the standards of the market place is a well-educated man, and who by his own restless, relentless standards is still an apprentice, with 3 a lot to learn...
...really like the candidate, they had to admire his streamlined press relations. The text of each night's speech was Mimeographed by the morning before; coffee and beef sandwiches were at hand in every press workroom along the way. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's motto was "Make it as easy as possible for them to get what they want...
...Swedish Association to Promote Swimming, the International Red Cross. In the last months of World War II he shuttled back & forth between Sweden and Germany; he arranged for the exchange of war prisoners, started negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for Germany's surrender. He remained true to the Scout motto: Alltid Redo (Be Prepared). When the U.N. appointed him its mediator in Palestine, he was not only ready, but eager...
...town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
...Look About You." Monte Cassino's abbot, white-haired Ildefonso Rea, last week recalled that the Abbey's motto is succisa virescit (cut down, it grows again). He said quietly: "This monastery was founded in the 6th Century. Four times* it has been destroyed, and every time, no matter how long it took, Monte Cassino has risen again. Nature shows us the urgent will to live. Look about you. Half-burned tree trunks are sprouting fresh and vigorous shoots...