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...Laotian Proverb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Reds in Shangri-La | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...Chinese proverb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hail, Formosa! | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Oscar Wilde summarized a popular view of fashion in "A Woman of No Importance": "The essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life." His contemporary Benjamin Disraeli modified the old proverb so that it became. "Dress does not make the man, but it often makes a successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philosophers Stud Old Clothing Controversy | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...poet is born, not made" - Latin proverb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching Poets | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...this association has been set up to organize and direct the alumni funds, and, he hopes, to increase them. Now, in this, Harvard's 100th year of rowing, the loyalty of all oarsmen, past and present, can find an outlet; and by means of this new psychological approach, the proverb "once a crewman, always a crewman" should bear financial fruit...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/29/1952 | See Source »

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