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...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...
...Linea, Spain, in sight of Gibraltar, the 10,000-ton Italian liner Chelind and a smaller compatriot were scuttled when the crews heard the news of war. The Capo Noli (3,921 tons), running down...
...subsequent years, Bishop Noli shuttled between the U. S. and the Balkans. For six months in 1924 he was premier of republican Albania. Then he was overthrown in a rebellion headed by Ahmed Zogu, today King Zog, and fled Albania. The husky bishop settled for a time in Vienna, then returned to Boston. There he was last week when the Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhije and Maxhide, sisters of King Zog, arrived on their U. S. tour (TIME...
...three princesses were not, as had been reported, hunting rich U. S. husbands-up to last week they had not bagged any-they were admittedly seeking to heal the breach between Bishop Noli and their brother. This they accomplished with great dispatch with the aid of the Albanian minister to the U. S., Faik Konitza, a friend of both Zog and the bishop. Minister Konitza, Bishop Noli and the three princesses chatted in Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel and next day the Moslem sisters, overdressed as usual, attended two Boston Albanian churches in which prayers were offered for King...
...press, Minister Konitza suggested that Bishop Noli would make an excellent head for a university which Zog intends to establish in Albania. Said modest Bishop Noli, Harvard graduate summa cum laude: "I am not good enough for such an important work...