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Word: victrix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company's arrangement of names is for purposes of euphony; the cover's arrangement of faces is for purposes of composition. Ars victrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Asinaria Harvardiana | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

...purr "I had the radio on" when she posed for her now historic nude calendar picture was after a historic precedent. When Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese and sister of Napoleon, was chided for having posed in the nude for Canova's famous statue of her as Venus Victrix, she calmly stated: "I wasn't cold with a fire in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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