Word: noli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whitney Darrow's president will be ready. He will press a button in his suit, blink his eyes once or twice, turn to his smiling predecessor and say, "Noli timere, o vir Harvardiensis, ad astra per aspera...
...means restricted to engineers, this tag has been popular in various forms with members of the R.A.F., the U.S. Navy (Non Illegitimi Carborundum), the Educational Division of the U.S. armed forces (Noli Illegitimi Carborundum) and the Harvard University Band (Illigitimum Non Carborundum). Thoroughly un-Ciceronian in all forms, it must be classed as illegitimate or Very Vulgar Latin...