Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reverts to the limpid, nerveless style which served for the earliest of her books. Not since "Three Lives" has she been so willing to chain herself to the actual meaning of words, to limit her scope so soberly to the common associations which they bring. It was an axiom of the schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more intimate values; yet in the short stories written in her pre-war days in Paris she must certainly have dispatched this facile critical theory. Miss...
...Beat Bradley and take the pot" is one of Louisville's axioms for the Kentucky Derby. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who makes his money out of his Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed...
...answer to the letter of dog-baiting Bulletin the Nov. 21 issue of TIME, I want to say that there is an exception to that old axiom that reads: "There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us. . . ." It is an historic fact that criminals, idiots and the dregs of humanity have had dogs to worship them, yet your correspondent seems never to have attained that happiness...
...mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...presumably for the State Department, uttered what sounded like the first breath of a more vigorous U. S. foreign policy. Obviously Mr. Edge was referring to Japan's seizure of Manchuria and to Germany's invasions of France when he said : "Americans are wedded to a fundamental axiom. ... On a national scale, and in international practice, this axiom would read. ... .A nation's primary right is to be free of fear of invasion! "Faith in the justice of this principle is so deeply ingrained in the American people that when they see territory over run they...