Word: dictums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submitted to the Assembly last week. It was part of a report by the U.N. Headquarters Commission on a permanent U.N. site, and was written by the French commission member, one of the world's most-touted architects, Le Corbusier.*The mind which produced the dictum-"An artist who paints a dog to look like a dog is himself a dog of the lowest kind"-came to several revolutionary conclusions about U.N.'s permanent home. Samples...
...mixup stems from the recently passed Ivy League eligibility requirements, which go only about halfway back from wartime relaxation to the old prewar dictum of "no freshmen on the varsity squad." The hitch comes in the ruling that all veteran first-year men will be permitted to play varsity ball, despite a general policy return to the "upperclassmen only" idea...
...Governor's hot words brought only a feeble reply from the unionists that they would stick by the court decision. They might also have remembered Cal Coolidge's famed, succinct dictum: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time...
...great American decision must be understood as a direct, unavoidable response to Soviet policy in Germany. From the first, this has been based on Lenin's terse but truthful dictum, 'Who controls Germany controls Europe...
Vishinsky's speech to French lawyers reported in TIME, May 27, recalls a critical dictum of St. Augustine which Americans might profitably keep in mind when evaluating our relationship with Soviets: "Distinguish between the trickery of words and the reality of things...