Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of Few's stature, the university met derision from the start. Some wag suggested that it change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Eruditio, Religio et Cherooto et Cigaretto. Under Few's less able successor, President Robert L. Flowers, the situation grew worse: though Duke was already beginning to build up a solid faculty, its reputation as a playboy's haven lived on. It was not until 1949, when rangy (6 ft. 2½ in.) Arthur Hollis Edens took over, that it began to come back into...
...Diplomas by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff," proclaimed Wolff's Tutors. The College Tutoring Bureau boasted, "We are now ready to serve you with our Notes, Outlines, and Liberal Translations," and the motto of the University Tutors was "Midnight Oil, Loathsome Toil...
Composer Villa-Lobos cares not the flick of a grace note if some of his music sounds flimsy. "Better that people should hear bad Villa-Lobos than good somebody else," is his motto. When told that a theme of his sounds like something else, it is news (but not bad news...
...Dodge's Old State Building office the "In" box is not on his desk, but on his secretary's. When he walks in he picks up one paper, works on it, and then goes to the outer office for another. "One crisis at a time," is his motto. Already the "In" box is stacked high with crises...
Until Rodolfo Graziani made it a terrifying reality for thousands of conquered Africans, the Graziani family motto - "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes" - was no more sinister than scores of other Italian family mottoes handed down from the age of feuding dynasties. Soldier Graziani was 32 years old and a loud-voiced, hulking 6 ft. 4 in. when World War I broke out. But though twice wounded and twice decorated, he found himself among Italy's millions of jobless at war's end. When the government called for volunteers to "pacify" Libya, Graziani rejoined...