Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generalissimo quotes Confucius: "The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...
...basketball maxim that a good man is better than a good small man is anywhere near true, the 1946-47 Crimson Freshman should come up with as potent a yearling five as has graced the hard-wood floors of the Indoor Athletic Building in many a lean year...
Damning the United States "yellow process" for "bringing calamity that much nearer" in U. S. Russian relations, Arthur Upham Pope, biographer of Maxim Litvinoff, defended Russian foreign policy last night at the first Law School Forum of the 1946-47 season...
Pope, a former professor of philosophy at the University of California and Amherst, is the biographer of Maxim Litvin-off. He acted as delegate to the Anniversary Celebration of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow...
...evidenced by Molotov's denunciation of Churchill and Baruch as prophets of aggression. Perhaps it is this same justifiable fear which has, at least partially, motivated Molotov's plea for international disarmament. Regardless of the reasons for this first Russian proposal for disarmament since the one made by Maxim Litvinoff before the League of Nations in 1927, if it is made seriously and in good faith, it can do more than anything else to convince the world of Russia's peaceful intentions...