Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looks camera left" in the main scene is still doing so when his face is alone on the film). He peered at the "Moviola," the machine film cutters use in their harried inspections. He quizzed sound men as they muttered of click tracking and sink. He remembered an axiom of motion picture musical directors : "A woman will cry even if the music is bad, but if it's good you might make her husband...
...editorial repeated a long-standing CRIMSON axiom: "A book like this has a place in the library." This is hardly inconsistent with past policy or a suggestion that only approved books be made available. Rather, the editorial and Mr. Beck's answer point up the difference between an historical display and the recent collection at Lamont. If the books had been chosen with the idea of illustrating trends in Negro thought, an entirely different presentation was necessary. The books, with explanations of what they represent, should then be fitted into an historical pattern. In this way, the Ford book could...
...market also holds another terror: it is the most fiercely competitive market in the world. It is almost an axiom abroad that any mass-produced article that could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
Collective security is now the axiom on which American foreign policy is based. Yet, despite the many advantages of merging scientific research, the United States still maintains a policy of atomic isolation. Co-operation between free world countries would clearly raise the level of Western research. Canada could give us vital information on nuclear piles, while the scientists of England and Australia, given access to America's modern research equipment could complement the work done here. Moreover, the money these nations are spending to repeat what America has done years ago, could be used to advance not duplicate, atomic research...
...This party of ours is free. We are the political captives of no section or interest of our country-and we are the prisoners of no static political or economic dogmas ruling our decisions. [We] make decisions not in the light of some rigidly preconceived political axiom, but in the only light in which we can clearly discern what is just-the peace and well-being of our whole people...