Word: axiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Single-Seat Versatility. In single-seater fighter aircraft, the U.S. emerged as the owner of the most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...
...Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica (see p. 78), the Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march...
Unless someone forgets the old Army axiom. "Keep Your Mouth Shut, etc., and Never Volunteer," the midshipman-officers school will not be represented in the SERVICE NEWS after this issue. This writer has apparently devoted a little more time to his scoopin' than he should have. In witness whereof, see Exhibit One, Disbursing Grades of 8, slant 2, slant 43. There must be someone else who can spare a few hours a week unscuttling things for our growing ensemble...
...suggestion that this department investigate the Art Hodes bend at the Hofbrau in Lawrence, Mass, was undoubtedly a partial violation of the cardinal Army axiom. "Keep your mouth shut and don't volunteer." Hence the fate that so often overtakes the sealous committee member who dreams up an idea and gets elected to the job of seeing it through...
There is an old and proven basketball axiom that it is hard to look good against a poor team. Sloppy basketball is infectious, and the hackers will invariably pull the better outfit down to their level. Harvard not only descended against the Elis; it stooped lower than...