Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady (MGM) is the third movie version of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Frederick Lonsdale's 1925 stage comedy of larceny in the drawing room. Inspired by the time-tested Hollywood axiom, "if at first you succeed, try, try again," the latest cinemadaptation comes off well enough to suggest that even now movie-goers may not be seeing the last of Mrs. Cheyney...
...Scholarship Committee) handbook (for alumni) also implies the now generally accepted axiom that the so called "all around boy" is what Harvard wants most. But a graduate should be sure to make no promises to a boy who hasn't the minimum amount of intelligence to do the work required at Harvard. A reasonably accurate formula has been worked out to determine this level of intelligence...
...XF4D illustrates an aerodynamic axiom: "The more power you have, the less wing you need." Presumably it is very fast; it may be supersonic. The short, steeply swept-back wing is shaped to minimize the Shockwave effects that are generally felt near the speed of sound. The thickness of the foreshortened wing and weblike "planform" in the center is intended to direct the air in a "three-dimensional flow"-below, above and around...
Last week there was new evidence to support the military axiom that carefully cultivated discipline and esprit de corps pay off in combat effectiveness. In Washington, the Defense Department revealed that only 26 men of the U.S. Marine Corps had been reported "missing in action" since the beginning of the Korean war. This was about 1/174th of the 4,517 marine casualties so far announced. Army men "missing in action" amounted to about one-sixth of verified Army casualties...
There is an old stock market axiom-"When a bull market hits the front page it is time to sell stocks." Granting that the front cover of TIME is equivalent to the front page, we can test the axiom by making note of your June 5 issue, and observing later how near it was to the top of the bull market...