Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This viewpoint is epitomized in the motto of the Collegiate Montaigne Society: "Dubitare est Cogitare." Richard W. Wallach '49, 2L Chairman, New England Division, Collegiate Montaigne Society...
...Mato Grosso jungles, beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths), live 15,000 Chavante Indians, members of the fiercest Indian tribe in all Brazil. For decades Brazil's Indian Protective Service agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...
...Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted the great jade seal of supreme Tibetan authority on which is engraved the motto "Victory in All Directions...
...Criminal Mind. In Newark, N.J., burglars pried open a safe, took $500 in cash and stamps, left a wall motto hanging from the broken safe door: "SMILE...
...Stockholm, Sweden's new King Gustaf VI took the royal oath, announced that his personal motto would be "Duty Above All," with Queen Louise acknowledged the cheers of his subjects. Then the King picked up his tired little grandson, Crown Prince Carl, 4, heir apparent to Sweden's throne, and carried him off to the quiet of his palace room...