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...talk of "steam-roller tactics"; well, we're up against steam-roller tactics, and if the axiom of fight fire with fire still holds good, then we'd better praise them instead of condemning them. The answer to the whole question is sacrifice; no, not sacrifice with tears of sorrow rolling down one's cheeks, but sacrifice with a touch of pride and a thankfulness for the opportunity...
Until last week the ancient axiom that China is too big to be conquered had never been admitted by Japan. Last week the world was astounded to hear Japan admit it. With perhaps the greatest loss of face in modern Japanese history, the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language mouthpiece of the Japanese Foreign Office, permitted itself to say that "ideas of overcoming this mastodon of nations must have little more appeal even to the most sanguine of soldierly minds...
...rank of U. S. writers is a large and loyal cult whose members are bound together by a common axiom of composition that they had to memorize in college: "Individualize by specific detail." They were all students of Yale's famed Professor John Milton ("Johnny") Berdan. Last week Johnny Berdan's former students, now heavily concentrated in Hollywood and Manhattan, as one man rattled their teacups (a Berdan way of saying they were unnerved). They had just learned that Johnny, after 38 years, was retiring from Yale...
...baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying down...
...axiom that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line is a luxury of peacetime. Many of Britain's supplies for Egypt go around Africa. Most U. S. visitors to Berlin nowadays go by way of Japan, Manchukuo, Siberia, Russia...