Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often with a feeling of insecurity that a member of the board undertakes to edit a paper on a day when the chief sources of news seem to have temporarily dried up. In such cases his sole consolation rests in the axiom that the presses must never cease rolling, and in the somewhat surprising tradition that the CRIMSON has always been published on schedule...
Prime golfing axiom is that a medalist rarely wins a tournament. Last year in the U. S. Women's Championship at Summit, N. J., Medalist Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, according to everybody's expectations, did not survive the third round. This year at Memphis, again medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare...
...seem a strange activity to couple with the direction of a movement for national spiritual uplift. But the Manchurian conflict had taught China the truth of the tragic axiom that 'God helps those who help themselves...
...dependence on material recruited from the minor leagues. For their showing Boston credited Manager McKechnie's shrewd choice of two "old rookies," Pitchers Jim Turner and Lou Fette, who proceeded to win 18 and 17 games respectively this season, simply providing a fresh demonstration of the axiom that 30 is the best age for a pitcher. Competing with Charley Dressen's Reds for the tail end position were Jim Wilson's Philadelphia Phillies, with Burleigh Grimes's Brooklyn Dodgers just escaping the ignominy of the cellar...
...named and put together, make up words or sentences. Printing six riddles of this type every week in 308 newspapers. P. Lorillard Co., makers of Old Gold cigarets, began last February the longest and best-sustained wit-baiting promotion on record by a U. S. advertiser. A puzzle contest axiom is that half the contestants will drop out before the finish. When the Old Gold contest closed last week, 85% of the starters were still hanging on for a chance at the unprecedented $100,000 first prize. On file in Manhattan were at least 2,000,000 individual folders crammed...