Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying down...
...axiom that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line is a luxury of peacetime. Many of Britain's supplies for Egypt go around Africa. Most U. S. visitors to Berlin nowadays go by way of Japan, Manchukuo, Siberia, Russia...
...Corcoran & Ben Cohen are not, as many a columnist has reported, on the way out. Their continued survival simply proves an old Roosevelt axiom: that the President's advisers are specialists, whom he calls on when he has a problem they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department...
...best, his work publicizes a staple poetical axiom-that Man is a self-contained spirit, inhabiting a material world. To give the old axiom zip, Williams dresses it up in the vivid picture-writing that admen use to give staple products up-to-the-minute attractiveness...
...axiom was]: 'Find it, adjust it AND LEAVE IT ALONE. . . .' He did not believe human intelligence could hasten or improve upon the miraculous work of the Universal mind. ... I give you this paragraph from the Old Master's great Bible of Chiropractic: " 'The real primary cause of disease is tension; the cause of tension is pressure; the cause of pressure in 95% of diseased conditions is luxated [dislocated] vertebrae. The cause of the remaining 5% is the luxation of other bones than those of the vertebral column...