Word: maximation
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...business is essentially the same ... As long as you keep your eyes open, know what's going on and keep your nose clean, you get along all right." On such a homemade maxim, big (6 ft. 1 in.) Emil Schram has gotten along fine. He was a successful farmer, irrigation expert and president of RFC when he became president of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant shrewdly unlearned some of early 19th Century West Point's rigidified teachings, e.g., the maxim that an attacking force must be at least three times larger than a fortified defending force (U.S. commanders in Mexico repeatedly attacked such forces when outnumbered three, four or five...
...could be said that wearing the right clothes to fit the occasion is merely a matter of good taste; nevertheless it is not a matter which can be entirely ignored. There is a certain amount of truth to the old maxim of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do," although this should not mean that we should abandon all of our clothing tastes entirely, and conform...
...world's dim picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin's collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter-a warm, personal note-that Stalin wrote in 1930 to his friend, Author Maxim Gorky (TwentySix Men and a Girl), then ill with tuberculosis in Italy...
There's an old Scandanavian maxim which states, "Skiing is Believing." To a person who has never been on skils the applicability of this proverb seems dubious, but those who have experienced the thrills of twisting trails may only repeat this to each other and sagely need their heads, recollecting old days on the Suicide...