Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There exists a legend which has it that the baseball nine leading the American or National League early in July is the team which wins the pennant.* The baseball season is then half over and (if the wiseacres' maxim be infallible) New York in the American and Cincinnati in the National will be the contenders in the playoff World Series this fall...
...occasion is an exhibition of bullet-proof vests which has been manufactured by the American Armor Company for the benefit of the Cambridge police. The latter, sticking to the old maxim that "seeing is believing", have, it appears, not yet been sufficiently convinced of the efficacy of the new protective shirts...
...When he had finished his law course, I would tell him to start at once and to start as a professional politician. In politics, as in sport, the old maxim holds, 'a third rate pro is an over-match for the best of amateurs'. He will have to begin at the bottom. Politics is no different from any other profession. You cannot start at the top. I have had many friends who at one time or another thought they would like to enter politics, or 'public service' as they generally preferred to call it. Too often they have decided that...
...existence, to see that this dastardly crime is expiated." Premier Bethlen arose. The Deputies leaped to their feet and created such an uproar that Parliament had to be temporarily suspended. At length the Premier obtained a hearing. He spoke for three hours. At the end of that time the maxim, "Speech was given man to conceal his thoughts," had been well illustrated. Premier Bethlen obviously found it impossible to risk pinning the blame for the plot upon anybody-presumably because the guilty are all so extremely close to the Government. Amid repeated cries of "Resign! You are shielding forgers!" Count...
...woman's name should appear in print but twice?when she is married and when she is buried," but certain exceptions, doubtless, may be pardoned in a President's wife, and few Presidents' wives have lived up to the above maxim better than the one who proposed it?Edith Carow Roosevelt...