Word: credo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kent has been so enthusiastic, or so hurried, that he has by no means compiled the fully-detailed lexicon that he might have made, considering his powers and experience. He is repetitious. But he is trenchant, illuminating, entertaining. Items from the actual, continual, successful life and credo of the experienced national officeholder...
...Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power, fertilizer, explosives, without Federal competition. Keeping-the-Government-out-of-business is a prime tenet of the Coolidge credo...
...facts of the case. I will neither make nor oppose interlocutory motions unless they are of real and practical importance. I will take no appeal unless I am satisfied that substantial error has been committed and that a new trial should reasonably give a different result." To this credo listeners, including many a distinguished lawyer, resolved complete approval...
Large in the British credo looms a belief that all persons who are "fit" can touch their toes...
GENIUS AND CHARACTER-Emil Ludwig-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). "And what else must we do but trace this man's every thought and act, every motive and impulse, back to the indivisible elements of his personality?" This is a fine and an austere credo for a biographer. Author Ludwig who followed it so completely and so admirably in his Napoleon, now applies it to a condensed explanation of men whose genius has been exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking...