 | Albert Shaw - 1921 - 776 pages
...most romantic siness in which men were ever engaged. On the New York post office is this iniption : NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT...THE SWIFT COMPLETION' OF THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS. We all know that that is literally true, hatever the heat or the cold or the storm, : mail carrier goes... | |
 | Frances Ellis Sabin, Loura Bayne Woodruff - 1913 - 154 pages
...has this inscription taken from the Greek of Herodotus 8. 98: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." THESE SEALS ARE MORE INTERESTING TO ONE WHO CAN READ LATIN: UNITED STATES E pluribus unum "One composed... | |
 | Moses King - 1914 - 208 pages
...ft. wide, bearing across its fa?ade the legend from Herodotus, "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Cost, $6,250.000. 116 PENNSYLVANIA STATION. New Post Office in distance. at nearly $20,000.000. The... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1915 - 1056 pages
...conveyed to and from the train. Across the Eighth Avenue front of the building is the inscription : " Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Disfigurement of Park The solemn spectacle presented by the passage of the cortege of the dead sailors... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1915 - 1062 pages
...conveyed to and from the train. Across the Eighth Avenue front of the building is the inscription : " Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Disfigurement of Park The solemn spectacle presented by the passage of the cortege of the dead sailors... | |
 | Fremont Rider, Frederic Taber Cooper, Mary Alden Hopkins - 1916 - 596 pages
...simplicity. Across the front runs the inscription from Herodotus "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." The structure is 375 by 335 ft. and cost $6,25o,ooo. The congestion of the general post office (p.... | |
 | 1925 - 392 pages
...Mail Service in the motto from Herodotus that is carved above the portal of the New York Post Office: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night...from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." US AIR SERVICES December, i 325 f I Members of the Capital MAC.. at a recent contest in Washington.... | |
 | Frank Dilnot - 1919 - 170 pages
...building in New York there runs an inscription from Herodotus. "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Somehow this inscription adds point and dignity to a noble building. Who but the Americans would have... | |
 | Gerald Stanley Lee - 1920 - 336 pages
...has about himself—four or five hundred feet of it, in letters four feet high all across the top. NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT, NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT...FROM THE SWIFT COMPLETION OF THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS. Of course I realized in a minute that this was said by Herodotus, or Homer or somebody, and was intended... | |
 | Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page - 1920 - 962 pages
...transportation fully justifies the adoption of the air mails under the motto of the United States post-office: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Indeed, such confidence has been instilled in those who have the air mails in their charge that plans... | |
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... neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. 
