Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions that require thought more than memory." If cramming is indulged in beyond legitimate limits,--"The questions should not be susceptible of answer by merely committing to memory facts and formulate." How great a transformation would be wrought in Harvard examination papers by the serious application of this maxim...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...STORY OF A NOVEL-Maxim Gorky-Dial Press ($2.50). A married girl seeking more from life encounters a half-made creature from the imagination of the novelist who has sought to conquer her. The unreality of the creature, who is the thickness of paper and invisible standing sidewise, makes her tremble for the validity of her own existence. She is more friendly to the novelist...
...bill, recently debated in the Lords (TIME, June 22), to prevent cruelty to animals, came up for discussion. Brigadier General Cockerill (Conservative), in defending the flea, indignantly observed that that maxim De minimis non curat Iex meant that "The flea doesn't worry the Home Secretary." Although the flea was not an animal or a reptile, he thought fleas should be included in the bill...
...this leads to the intentions of the Powers. Will they, as was suggested, agree to hold immediately a conference for the purpose of righting all China's wrongs? Probably not. But, sooner or later, they will have to. Meantime, the god old maxim of divide et impera seems the better part of wisdom...