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...waterside location with access to the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Perhaps the only additional asset that Detroit needs is a renaissance of the spirit expressed in the city's double-barreled motto, adopted after a fire nearly wiped out the little town of Detroit in 1805: Speramus meliora. Resurget cineribus-"We hope for better things. It will rise from the ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RECESSION IN DETROIT | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel . . .") and James Joyce (". . . casting a net around Harvard-Yale Andover Exeter Groton Amherst Williams in Doe speramus.") is appalling...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

...Some other U.S. university Speramus (In God We Hope), Princeton's Dei Sub Numine Viget (Under the Might of God It Will Flourish), Columbia's In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen (In Thy Radiance We See Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: All Quiet on the Midway | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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