Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time has obscured both the shield's motto, "Tenco et Tencor" (I hold and I am Holden), and the building's original purpose. Holden remained a chapel for scarcely two decades before becoming the home of the Provincial House of Representatives which had fled from British troops in Boston. A further insult to the British benefactress was the building's transformation into a barrack for 160 Revolutionary soldiers. In 1779, after the infantry had departed, the faculty voted that "The college Engines and Buckets be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." The small building became the College...
...preface were listed the "Ten Commandments of Judo." The last was: "Apply to your private life the motto, 'Give Way So As to Conquer...
...dropped from the $18,000 total of the year before to $12,000. But the value of charitable contributions made by students rather than by their parents is indisputable. Students this year should take the Committee's handicap as a challenge to raise their contributions to former levels. The motto of the Combined Charities is "Give once. Give generously. This is the only drive of he year." Translated into negotiable terms this motto means: dig deeply...
Realists. In Washington, four years after they had provided the 81st Reconnaissance Battalion with a Latin translation of "To see is to prepare," officers of the Army's Heraldic Branch shamefacedly confessed that, because they had substituted parere for parare, the motto the 81st had been proudly displaying since 1951 actually reads:"To see is to submit...
...Director Sees, charged the Government, personally rode herd on the operation. Sees's motto, according to one witness, was "The more you squeeze [an advertiser] the more you get out of [him]." He often peppered his staff with such memos as "I notice Sullivan is still in the Journal-Post. Why? Why? Why?" An ex-Star staffer testified that Sees would "pound his fist on the desk and say, 'Go tell that so-and-so he's wasting his money advertising any place but in the Star...