A Conversation for Handy Latin Phrases

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Post 1

motheralma

HI, please could anyone give me the gist of the following? It is on a small badge, with a coat of arms (anticlockwise from top left -scales/hand holding flaming torch/geni's? lamp/wobbly line with 3 dots) which I beleive was my late mothers college badge from 1940's. It was with her things. Many thanks.

sic currere ut obtenere

I am guessing "as you find so shall you get" or WYSIWYG in todays language.smiley - biggrin


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Post 2

supersubstandard

I _think_ it's "So run that ye may obtain" or "So run that you may win the prize" which is a biblical quote (1 Corinthians 9:24).


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Post 3

bgd

Hi, The badge you talk about is linked with the Warton training college,
which was an Emergency teacher training college set up in 1947. I believe it was situated on hillock lane Freckleton.


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Post 4

bgd

I have a photograph with over 200 people which also has the badge on it


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