Word: maximation
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...quarter of a billion dollars for warships which will be obsolete in ten years. No class A countries will ever fight another war with massed men. It will be too expensive. The world must be ready for a quick jump. Planes will drop explosives, gas, and disease. Their maxim will be, 'Jump in and destroy as quickly as you can.' " Dr. Crile on Glands. Medicine is cautiously probing at life, health and disease with the newest tools of chemist and physicist. In England Dr. James Eustace Radclyffe McDonagh, whose studies are gradually becoming known...
...there is any truth in the Hobbesian maxim that no discourse can end in absolute knowledge of fact, then it is fatuous to paraphrase a philosopher, and reviews of philosophic works are especially futile. Mr. Santayana, furthermore, is the kind of philosopher who seems always to use the right amount of exact words, and thus lends himself to quotation rather than to summary. He needs to be quoted for the vigor of his thought and for the lucidity of his style...
Moscow acted quickly. Every Soviet correspondent was withdrawn from Germany. The four German correspondents in Moscow were given 72 hours to leave Russia. Moscow papers scare-headed "Rupture of Press Relations!" Roly-poly Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Commissar, issued a statement...
...Shoot some Communists" is the tried and trusty maxim of Latin American politicos seeking diplomatic recognition by the Great Powers. In Havana last week the student-supported Cabinet of President Ramon Grau and the spunky Cuban Army now commanded by ex-Sergeant ("Emperor") Fulgencio Batista seized a fine chance to impress the world with their hostility to Reds...
...power to meet that emergency. ... It is recognized that necessity confers many rights and privileges that without the necessity might not be conferred. It is said that self-preservation is the first law and this principle, in some degree at least, seems to extend to governments. . . . There is another maxim that 'safety of the people is the supreme law' and all these must be considered in dealing with emergencies. All laws should be read in emergencies in the light of the law of necessity...