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Word: axioms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...axiom that varsity play with smarter and quicker opposition is always much tougher than freshman. For the boys who come up to Weiland's squad this is even more true than at most colleges. Weiland's brand of hockey is essentially defensive, "stop the other team from scoring and get your scores on breaks," and it's often a totally new concept for the sophomores...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Sophomores, Spirit Spark Improved Crimson Sextet | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...seems probable that the Crimson's brilliant defense will contain the highpowered Engineer attack. But the varsity must score; the axiom, "The best offense is a strong defense," holds good only to a point...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Team to Face Tough MIT Squad In Effort to End Long Scoreless Spell | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

...better the junket, the worse the show" is an axiom in the entertainment business. Movie and TV companies have lately transported planeloads of correspondents to Ireland (for the premiere of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People), to Tucumcari, N. Mex. (for the shooting of CBS-TV's Rawhide), and to practically anywhere else a travel-minded reporter would want to go. The latest and possibly most lavish junket was under way last week when ABC-TV took eleven reporters and four pressagents to Hawaii to publicize its new, $3,600,000, hour-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Aloha & Ballyhoo | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Heavies race, described by Coach Harvey Love as "pretty much of a water fight" over the short distance of three-quarters of a mile, proved the old fall rowing axiom, "The highest stroking boat wins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odell's, Putnam's Crews Win Two Intrasquad Races | 11/12/1958 | See Source »

...income tax rap. Before catching his free bus to the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., "The Prime Minister" told reporters he would be "put in solitary for 30 days, but I'm not really bitter." Rolling across the Jersey Meadows, he might well have recalled a favorite axiom learned during his East Harlem youth: "Tough times make monkeys eat red peppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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