Word: nihilism
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...World" (smaller than a dime) by high seas representatives of the New York News Photographers' Association who snapped Her Majesty incessantly; visited the steerage and kissed there a Rumanian baby; laid her royal head each night on pillows embroidered with the Rumanian royal crest and motto: Nihil Sine Deo;* chewed gum when assured by one of her ladies-in-waiting, Mme. Prezepie, that in the U. S. it is considered a preventative against seasickness-learned that half a million dollars' worth of antique furniture and bric-a-brac has been installed by the Hotel Ambassador in the suite...
Curzon. The Most Honorable, the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, etc., received, in the eyes of many, a most satisfactory post-that of the Lord President of the Council. Fears were entertained that he might be reappointed Foreign Secretary; and rightly enough, for as Disraeli felt about Lord John Russell, Nihil tetigit quod non perturbavit*. But, as The Westminster Gazette said: "Lord Curzon could not have returned to the Foreign Office. His role is to speak fraternally with foreign kings; and there are so few left that it is as well to lay him aside in purple and fine linen...
Fifty-six years ago the University authorities suppressed the "Collegian" after its third number, giving no warning and only the vaguest reasons. But "veritas nihil veretur", and two months later the "Advocate" appeared. Since that time, thanks to the vision of the past and present officers of the University, the right to speak has been recognized, and for teachers and students alike it has become established beyond question...
...with Arthur Hale '80, and the design was drawn by Miss Ellen Day Hale. An earlier seal--the stork with the caducens--was designed by Lester W. Clark '75. The Advocate still retains the motto of the Collegian, "Dulce est periculum," as well as the original Advocate motto, "Veritas nihil veretur...
...abrupt end after the publication of three numbers. In May of the same year the first number of the "Advocate" appeared. It was founded by three Juniors of the class of '67, all of whom were former editors of the "Collegian." The motto of the paper was "Veritas nihil veretur." Notwithstanding the hard struggle the paper at first had to keep alive, it was finally placed on a sound financial basis...