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Word: mottos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon club was primarily a meeting place for businessmen who wanted to meet businessmen. Rotary's pin was reserved for the town's leading man in each line of business; second-ranking Kiwanis, later tagged "the grey flannel suit boys" by Lions, used "We Trade" as its motto and admitted only two members from each recognized local enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Roar, Lion, Roar | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...Hawaii is neglected, the U.S. motto should be "Of the prejudice, by the prejudice and for the prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1958 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Hidden beneath the facade of Southern decadence lies the keynote of present-day secondary school education in the South: progress. Progress is the motto of the new South, and is now reflected in all aspects of Southern life. Everywhere the signs point upward...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Southern Schools Show Progress - Sometimes | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...Playboy Trujillo Jr.'s fancy gift-giving keeps up, the Dominican Republic will have to change its motto to "Over the Trujillo to the Poorhouse"-with the U.S. taxpayer paving, and paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...gravity state than the electronic accelerometer in which the Air Force has invested millions. As my bottom, squeezed to insensible bloodlessness during the 4-g pullout, rose from the seat cushion, I felt the exhilaration of restored circulation (and noted the lasting aptness of the old barnstormer's motto: you fly by the seat of your pants). I "dropped" the sinker in front of my masked face. It stayed there, floating. The merest delicate touch sent it gliding, featherlike, right or left, up or down, forward or aft. I was as happy as I would have been with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: HOW TO GO WEIGHTLESS | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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