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...would be difficult, if not impossible, to replace" such student aid, says Admissions Director Stuart Michael. Worse, the Government might one day strip the college of tax-exempt status. If Wheaton were forced to change its admission policies, its defenders argue, it would no longer be Wheaton-whose motto since 1860 has been Eius Christo et Regno: For Christ and His Kingdom...
...losing its poise, so the grumbling heard here thus far is not of board feet lost to lumbermen. It is of seemliness outraged. The damned bugs belong down in Lowell or Peabody, or out on the Cape eating clam rolls. LIVE FREE OR DIE, as our pugnacious license plate motto recommends, but if you are a gypsy moth, do it some place else...
...been known to show up at the supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration...
...Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1964. Although the practice was uncommon in such circumstances, Lord Snow took out a coat of arms. The design bridged the two cultures, showing two quill pens crossed over a telescope. It also included two Siamese cats, his favorite breed, and a Latin motto that can stand as his epitaph: Aut inveniam viam aut faciam-I shall either find a way or make...
...missions to assassinate leading Axis generals. One of the unit's few known failures involved an attempt to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the top German commander in Africa. The Germans soon came to fear the S.A.S. men sporting berets decorated with a winged dagger and the motto WHO DARES WINS...