Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrinkles had been ironed out of the draft drawn by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle and his assistant Carlton Savage. Britain's Churchill, Russia's Litvinoff and China's T. V. Soong were called into conference at the White House that evening. Maxim Litvinoff had won one big point. This limited the pledge of the signers to a promise to make war to the end only on the enemies with whom they were already at war. Russia, Litvinoff pointed out, did not want to pledge war against Japan, with which...
...studying meaning, while Dr. Ogden led the Orthological Institute in further refinements of the Basic English method. Ingenious charts for associating pictures and simple words were drawn up with the help of enthusiastic American and foreign students, and the group became widely known in a very short time. Maxim Litvinoff and his wife were so impressed by the Basic approach to English that they learned it and introduced it into the schools in Russia. And Massachusetts successfully employs Basic English in teaching our language to that section of its population which is foreign born. The Committee's high point thus...
...standing military maxim since Alex ander the Great (356-323 B.C.) has been "Destroy the enemy's leadership." In his principal campaigns Alexander's strategy was based on capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines...
...conversations progressed, President Roosevelt talked to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff. to China's Dr. Hu Shih and Dr. T. V. Soong, Dutch Minister Alexander Loudon, representatives of the Latin American republics and occupied European nations. Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King arrived from Canada...
...last fortnight's opening 350 pieces had been brought together, studied, documented and installed in a new wing built jointly by Karolik and the museum. Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall headed a long list of Back Bay notables who gathered to gaze and admire. But Maxim Karolik was not there. He had slipped out a back door as the distinguished guests walked in the front entrance. "I consider it iss correct, it iss even chic that the Karoliks should not go to the opening," he explained. "It iss better that the collection should shine by its own glory...