Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Below a flaming cross that appeared in the noonday sky above Rome, Constantine saw the motto, In hoc signo vinces (By this sign conquer), which eventually led to his conversion to Christianity...
...choose." Tory Strategist Macleod is confident that if the party sinks low enough in by-elections, it will bounce back in time for the general election that Macmillan is expected to call some time next year. Said he: "How should Conservatives act now? I offer you the Clan Macleod motto: 'Hold Fast...
...them is a happy blend of past and future: the green-lawned beauty of college "backs" on the River Cam, the sounds of Cantabs cheering on rowers with "Forward Christs!"-a way of life and learning that wears its seven centuries as jauntily as the modern undergraduate's motto: "I'm all right, Jack...
...doubled since 1956, it still has only 800 of them. Now this is changing, owing mainly to science. The pattern is clear at the first new men's college to be built at Cambridge in this century: fast-rising Churchill, sponsored by Sir Winston and prodded by his motto, "Forward." At Churchill, 70% of the 540 men will be in science; half will be graduates. Churchill's purpose, says its master. Sir John Cockcroft, "is to increase the output of highly trained scientists and technicians for industry...
...members), and given natives administrative responsibility for more than half the area they control. The country now has its own national anthem, My Country, My Papua, and a red-white-and-blue flag. At a cost of $1,500,000, Dutch officials have organized a West Papuan Volunteer Corps (motto: I PERSEVERE) whose first 220 volunteers will complete basic training in June. The native hunters are reluctant to exchange blowguns and loincloths for Mauser rifles and uniforms, and are terrified of the evil spirits that haunt New Guinea after nightfall, but the Dutch expect that eventually they will make crack...