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...cunuchis plerumque non cst cavenduml Nisi cunuchus non cst verus cunuchus sed ardens adulcscens, cui sunt tales vires ingenue quales illis custodibus severis Kerby-Molitori ct Leightono interdum molestac sint. Cum hic cunuchus falsus--immo vero hic Gactulus lco--per cuiusdam servi callidi insidias domum intrat quam suac deliciac Pamphila ct illa merctrix splendida Thais habitant, quac flagitia quac implications amatoriacl Pro Venere omnes militant non sinc gloria. Sed de argumento satis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Eunucho Harvardiano | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

Beyond the Communist darkness, plain people everywhere showed their feelings plainly: surprise, relief, curiosity, apprehension. But in chancelleries, the dictates of conscience contested with the practices of diplomacy. Officially, a policy of de mortals nil nisi bonum (but not too much bonum) generally prevailed. Some responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: The World Responds | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Dark Days | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES PRIZE AWARDS | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Whose Mediterranean? | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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