Word: nisi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale, cost up to $1,000 on the black market. It was clearly stamped a postwar product by its tinny materials, its cheap appearance, and even by its symbolism. In contradiction of the old sundial motto Horas non numero nisi serenas ("I count no hours but unclouded ones"), the new timepiece works on cloudy days also...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra...
...shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...
Motto of the Ajax: Nee quisquam nisi Ajax, which in the U. S. Navy would be translated, "We can't do nothing till Ajax comes...
LONDON--Herbert Leigh Holman was granted a decree nisi today in his divorce action against Vivien Leigh, movie star...