Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotarians in 83 lands, who hold luncheon meetings once a week, call each other by their first names and fraternize under the motto Service Above Self, are not used to thinking of themselves as secret, seditious or suspect. Founded 45 years ago, Rotary was the brain child of a young Chicago lawyer, Paul P. Harris, who thought of it as a social club of businessmen with "an especial advantage in each member having exclusive representation of his particular trade or profession. The members would be mutually helpful...
Comparing the founding of the University to its present status, Dr. Bonnell found it hard to reconcile the original motto, "In Christ and in the Church," with today's absence of a college program in religion...
Nash may seem gleefully ready with complaining gibes at his white-collar victims of 20th Century living, yet in the end his motto reads: Homo Americanus, right or wrong...
...saddened mountain climbers remembered and adopted as their own a motto they had seen written in English over a schoolhouse at Dhankuta in remote Nepal. It said inspiringly: "Gather courage-don't be a chickenhearted fellow...
...Macy's as a hat clerk 32 years ago, climbed steadily up to department manager, a merchandise counselor (millinery and footwear) and merchandise administrator. Vice President Rosenberg (married to Harry Kirshbaum, an architect) is now in charge of the millinery and shoe sales staffs, some 400 people. Her motto:"Beat last year's figures...