Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine years Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff trotted about Europe as the Foreign Commissar of Soviet Russia. Although he had never been much of a power within the Soviet Union, he was one of the few old-line Bolsheviks who could talk to capitalist diplomats in their own language. He made an able traveling salesman for Joseph Stalin. At the endless, shilly-shallying, post-war conferences he was the vigorous symbol of an era when the Soviet was plugging the theory of collective security, backed every democratic move aimed at the Axis. But he was sold out all along the line...
...Long Island, winters in his school at Pompano, Fla. He speaks slowly, writes in a sprawling hand, but dances, swims, paddles a canoe, is a good shot. Dr. Carlson deplores pampering for spastics, insists that only the rigors of life can teach them to teach themselves control. His chief maxim...
...against the Italians; they were well received by the natives. It also looked well to the whole Middle Eastern Moslem world, which is already largely pledged to Britain although Signer Mussolini declared himself Defender of Islam in 1937. In the East the British had once more reversed their old maxim, Divide and Rule, to read: Unite and Revolt...
...little premature to shut down on debate? Fascism, it is true, abhors and fears free discussion, but democracy thrives on it. The right of free speech should be sacred, not just a privilege which may be revoked if it is inconvenient or embarrassing. The maxim which Roosevelt took from Benjamin Franklin to illustrate the futility of a dictated peace is a sword which cuts both ways: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
Equally surprising to tuberculosis experts was a recent survey among 65,459 individuals on home relief in New York City's grey belt-lower Harlem. Active cases were found for 3.3% white females, 2.2% Negro females, 5.3% white males, 3.2% Negro males. Knocked west was a longtime maxim: the Negro suffers from racial susceptibility to t.b. Nevertheless the Negro tuberculosis death rate is still five times that of the white race, possibly due to lower living standards and less medical attention. This apparent paradox showed the impossibility of estimating t.b. among the living from t.b. mortality tables-a conclusion...