Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article neglected an important source of the repairman's business-the continued cheapening of American products. "Built to wear out" could be a motto for many modern gadgets; this is the sand on which the American economy seems to have built its Sputniked spiral...
...call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds of bets that I won't last. I told them if it is a miracle...
...Treasury Secretary's signature- the new singles displayed the first design change in U.S. paper money since the Bureau of Engraving and Printing added the Great Seal in 1935. On the green side of the new dollar appears, for the first time on U.S. folding money, the motto "In God We Trust," which made its debut on the 2? piece of 1864 and is imprinted on all current U.S. coins except the buffalo nickel. Two years ago Congress ordered the motto added to greenbacks, last year made it - instead of E Pluribus Unum -the nation's official motto...
...During the Civil War, with Union gold reserves running low, President Lincoln suggested that instead of "In God We Trust," a more fitting motto for greenbacks would be the Apostle Peter's words to the lame beggar (Acts 3:6): "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee...
...Darkest Hour." Father Halton first ruffled the campus of Presbyterian-founded Princeton (motto: "Under God she flourishes") in 1954, with a sharp-tongued attack on the fitness of famed Philosopher Dr. Walter T. Stace to teach a freshman class in his subject, since he once admitted: "I believe in no religion at all." Father Halton then charged that Princeton's department of religion was incompetent to instruct students in Roman Catholicism because not one member was as well trained in the subject as "an eighth-grader in St. Paul's" (a local Catholic school...