Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least 10% higher than 1952's. Next year, with the Excess Profits Tax removed, many companies will be able to earn more on lower sales. And the fact that there are so many bears might be an argument that they are wrong-as the old Wall Street axiom has it: "Go the way the crowd came from...
...Obscure and little-known, it lies behind closed laboratory doors. There, researchers for industry and Government are tackling the problem of developing and perfecting wonder metals"-those metals capable of meeting the unparalleled strains and stresses of the jet and atomic age. Aircraft builders have already laid down this axiom: the nation which first masters the use of wonder metals will rule...
...responsibility for success or failure of an operation within a corps rests on the corps commander. This is an accepted axiom and was not changed by the action on Old Baldy. In exercising this responsibility of command it is often necessary for the corps and division commanders to discuss the action and the situation in very simple and plain terms. Evidently your source erroneously interpreted such a discussion occurring in a forward observation post to be a public rebuke...
...because it is much more interested in manifestations than motives, more preoccupied with the how of Salem than the why. It is what the story stresses, more than the story itself, that reveals its bifocal nature, its linking of "witch-hunting" past & present, its absorption with parallels-despite the axiom that parallel lines never meet. Moral indignation rather than insight has combed over the facts; and in the end The Crucible not only omits something from its picture of Salem, but takes the life out of its inhabitants. The psychological tragedy of fierce Calvinist repression that erupted in the hysterical...
...rider and his old campaigner approached the final obstacle. It was a 5-ft.-high white rail, where almost every other contestant had come a cropper. Up & over went Democrat, cleanly, bringing down a storm of applause. Later, grinning modestly, Billy explained his success by quoting an old jumping axiom: "The horse makes the rider...