Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sight. Plainly, the President was anxious to get the Ward case off the nation's front pages and, if possible, out of the nation's mind. He acted swiftly on the tested maxim that it is always good politics to remedy your mistakes quickly but never admit having made them...
These were interesting words. No one knew what they meant in practice, but in Chungking and the U.S. alike observers were prepared to apply to Ch'en Li-fu the maxim of his great mentor, Confucius: "Listen to men's words, but watch what they...
...book and listening to the records. The disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most fundamental situations. They should help soldiers to obey a Chinese maxim which Fang loves: Chien shih-mo jen shuo shih-mo hua (Whomever you see, talk his language...
...notable for his intense respect for the little citizen, for the sanity of the U.S. mass mind. Ray Clapper's guiding maxim: "Never overestimate the people's knowledge, nor underestimate their intelligence." His rival columnists, without dissent, praised his competence and balance. The U.S. had lost not only an outstanding journalist, but also a plainspeaking, commonsensible spokesman for the people...
...editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...