Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergencies, and the Colorado Bar Association is drafting similar legislation. Members of California's joint Alameda-Contra Costa Counties Medical Society, just across the bay from San Francisco, have a successful, 15-year-old malpractice review program that has been copied in eight other states. Its motto: "We fight when we're right and pay when we're wrong." Patients' complaints are studied by a board of 15 doctors and one clergy man. If the committee decides a malpractice complaint is justified, the medical society's insurer-American Mutual Liability Insurance Co.-is obligated...
...Philip Neri's motto was,"Siate umili, state bassi [Be humble, be lowly]," and one of his most frequent prayers was "Lord, don't trust Philip." This humility, combined with a joyful spirit and a pride-pricking sense of humor, brightened 16th century Rome, as it does a new biography, St. Philip Neri, by French Author Marcel Jouhandeau (Harper...
...Post blandly replied that the blackout had been taken as "another public service of the Post to insure public safety." But for all their intentions of doing good by stealth, the Post, the Chronicle and the Press would certainly have found life simpler had they lived up to a motto engraved in stone over the entrance of the Houston Post building: LET FACTS BE SUBMITTED...
...shine-/and t0 hdl with everything else!/That is my motto-/and the sun's!" Snatches of exuberant, pure song survive their pedestrian translation and make Mayakovsky sound like a moujik Whitman
...read all the books he could cart away from the Workmen's Institute, overcame a stammer by reciting Shakespeare to anyone who would listen, and at 21 was sent by his fellow miners to London's Central Labor College. The school's militant motto: "Educate, Agitate, Organize...