Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advocates of this position--and they are legion--are obscuring one vital axiom (whether consciously or not) which must be made clear...
...Granted, the role is not a very taxing one, but Edgerton delivers all there is in it. The quality which lifts him so far above his colleagues is timing. He is an actor of some experience, and realizes that the funniest line can be ruined with poor timing--an axiom which the others demonstrate from time to time...
...came to America when I was eight years old," he began. "My business today is a family business, which makes good jobs for 1,200 people, including my two sons, Solomon and Horace, who are right here in this room." Going on from there, with many a homely axiom and many a catch in the throat, Goldfine...
When an airplane hits another airplane in flight, there are no survivors. This axiom of aeronautic safety has been demonstrated most graphically twice in the past two years: first when 128 people were killed in a collision over the Grand Canyon in June, 1956, and then last month, when an airliner and a jet trainer collided over the Nevada desert...
...individuality and actively seeks it out. Social insulation, a striving for comfortable homogeneous groups, the frank institutionalization of arbitrary and unreflective prejudices--these do not contribute to that aim. Even if the racial criterion were eliminated, the general principle of an illfounded sort of discrimination would remain as an axiom of Princeton's entire social structure...