Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middleweight champion isn't sure where his next fight is coming from. For one thing, there are no other middleweights around able to give him more than a good workout. Sugar's manager said something about matching his 155-lb. man against Joey Maxim, world light-heavyweight champion, who fights...
From the point of view of the United States, I suggest that such a policy would be in keeping with a Chinese maxim, quoted by Robert Payne in a biography of Mac Tse-tung. "Know yourself, know enemy: hundred battles, hundred victories." Lorentz W. Hansen...
...business is essentially the same ... As long as you keep your eyes open, know what's going on and keep your nose clean, you get along all right." On such a homemade maxim, big (6 ft. 1 in.) Emil Schram has gotten along fine. He was a successful farmer, irrigation expert and president of RFC when he became president of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant shrewdly unlearned some of early 19th Century West Point's rigidified teachings, e.g., the maxim that an attacking force must be at least three times larger than a fortified defending force (U.S. commanders in Mexico repeatedly attacked such forces when outnumbered three, four or five...
...could be said that wearing the right clothes to fit the occasion is merely a matter of good taste; nevertheless it is not a matter which can be entirely ignored. There is a certain amount of truth to the old maxim of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do," although this should not mean that we should abandon all of our clothing tastes entirely, and conform...