Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canniest lead-off batter in baseball's history was busy at his favorite pastime: getting a free trip to first base. For 17 years in baseball, Stanky's hook-or-crook motto has been: "I don't care how I get on base." When an umpire once warned him against crouching too low at the plate in an effort to minimize his "strike zone," Stanky snarled: "Are you trying to tell me my business...
...first time since 1931, Sarah Lawrence is erecting a new building. While this might not seem extraordinary to a man from Harvard, where the motto is "another year, another building," to students and faculty at S.L.C. it represents the fulfillment of a tremendous need for space, and an opportunity "to take the next steps for the future of Sarah Lawrence education," according to President Taylor...
...they can't quite put their finger on it. In their phrase (severely edited), she doesn't make sense. One of her favorite expressions, which appears often in her conversation and in her column, is "I feel ..." Not "I think," but "I feel." It might her motto...
Clubman. In Santa Monica, Calif., exActress Judith Barrett, suing for divorce, charged that millionaire husband Lindsay Howard, a member of the "Vikings Club," always fought a losing battle to uphold the club motto: "A Viking can always drink one more...
...world. Last year Sears, Roebuck sold the astronomical number of 500,000,000 separate items-everything from a one-ounce sewing bobbin to a 2,200-lb.brooder house. But the biggest mail-order seller of all was, as usual, diapers. To Merchandiser Wood, this fact is significant. It illustrates his motto that a "business, to stay healthy, must grow with the nation...