Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department in Washington, inclining toward the Latin maxim: Ira furor brevis est, discounted from the first the significance of the incident, feeling certain that it was but the act of an irresponsible...
Hiram Percy Maxim, famed inventor Sc.D...
...question, London is the only place in the world where Russia can obtain the large credits requisite to her reconstruction. The situation was therefore one of extreme seriousness for the Bolsheviki and it was probably because of the gravity of the present stage of negotiations that Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey, in which lofty scorn is apparent...
...Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, said: "Everything tends to show that the police acted on instructions from the central authorities . . . the action of the German police was audacious and insolent...
...Significance. That Man is at once tragic and comic, sublime and ignoble, vastly individual yet universally interesting, are maxims of life, and stock for novelists. This book is least concerned with the first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily...