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Word: semper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...Semper Paratus. In Provincetown, Mass., police took a second look at George Ash Gaines, arrested him, extracted sun glasses, vitamin pills, stage money, scissors, surgical throat lights and 212 other odds & ends from the two suits he was wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...common nomad of Tibetan highland but have visited frequently the Lolo-land. Because we have in common the right of montani semper liberi* I take the courage of expressing my heart to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...pigskin folder engraved in gold with words "Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Navy." Of course, the little slip of paper to fill the folder is still missing; and Ned hastens to explain that he's not really eager to leave "The Bog" or Boston for home but semper paratus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/4/1945 | See Source »

...know. Maybe somewhere they talk like that. It's a long war. What does it matter? Semper fidelis, "flyboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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