Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college whose motto is veritas, Harvard has long suffered from an excess of bull, whether from gov-jocks shoveling it in section or pre-frosh trying to impress their hosts. With several presidential candidates and political gurus having visited in recent weeks, the problem has only grown worse...
...Crimson aquamen were looking for a new motto, they might want to alter that of yesterday's opponents: "Be all that you can be--in the free...
Poundstone also commented on MIT's motto, "Minds and Hands...
Today, The U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt glides stealthily in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of what once was Yugoslavia. Ironically, the motto of the Western powers for most of the Bosnian conflict has been to "Speak hypocritically and thwack yourself with a small twig." Western leaders regularly repeat their mantra of how "Bosnia was a great failure of Western leadership," as if they are speaking of some other Western leaders and that with the admission of guilt all their sins are absolved...
Volunteer organizers wore shirts sporting the fair's motto: "Celebrating unity and diversity in the heart of Cambridge." And the shirts certainly seemed to fit the occasion...