Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...culture and criticism an unvoiced assumption that the generic Dartmouth gentleman is a roguish, rakish, hell-bent-for-affection sort of fellow with all the manly virtues and not a few of the more virile peculation's that go to make up the finished citizen of the world. This axiom means a lot to us. There is a pleasure in it that emanates only from undeserved praise...
...Simplest axiom of aviation: "It isn't the flying that's dangerous; it's the coming down." Seated on his father's lap in the cockpit, a 10-year-old could hold a plane on a fairly even course, nearly as easily as holding an automobile to a high way. But to land safely requires judgment and skill born of careful training and long practice. A miscalculation, a false move-and only fate decides whether the mishap shall be trivial or tragic...
...dead locked on this case. Hiram C.Todd, special State prosecutor, agreed to the dismissal of the Ewalds' indictments, on the ground that the juries' failure to agree "fairly represents the present state of the collective conscience of the community in cases of this character." Revived was the old political axiom of New York: A Tammany man cannot be convicted in Tammany Town...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...
...Lead-off endorser in the other campaign-of-the-week was no vaudevillian but Brig.-General Samuel McRoberts, Chairman of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. Banker McRoberts said: "Making friends and holding them by a friendly up-to-date usefulness is the secret of success in business. This axiom has been the guiding force in the progress of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. And it is obviously the guiding force in your business ?as evidenced by your use of ultra violet ray in the 'toasting' of the Lucky Strike tobaccos...