Word: preception
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable that the gossips had overlooked slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O., D.F.C., even though his picture had been appearing in the papers alongside Margaret for years. The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess' heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one. As a royal equerry and deputy master of King George VI's household (appointed in 1944 when Margaret was only 14), he had the constant duty of accompanying the royal family in all its lighter moments. Group...
...quickly scotched a report that he would leave the cutting of U.S. combat strength to Secretary Wilson. The size of our armed forces, he said, would conform with what he always goes back to-George Washington's old precept of a reasonable posture of military defense. The responsibility for cutting would not be one that he would delegate...
Building on retailing's oldest precept, that the customer is always right, the Webbers established a host of services, including one of the most liberal refund systems in the world. If a Hudson's customer decides he doesn't like something he has bought, all he has to do is pick up the phone and say so; one of Hudson's 300 delivery trucks will come and take the merchandise back. Hudson's has been known to credit merchandise bought ten years before and never used. Last year, Hudson's actually sold more than...
...Humanity is so constituted that it must work to be healthy and happy." Following his own precept, Eaton has another deal cooking. He has staked a claim and financed exploration of an iron-ore field at Ungava Bay in Northern Quebec, and plans to ship ore from it to Europe. Eaton, who makes no small plans, says expansively: "It's perfectly colossal...
This sound diplomatic precept obviously lay well at the front of John Foster Dulles' mind last week. On his ten-day flying trip to Western Europe's capitals, the new Secretary of State left little room for doubt that 1) unless the European allies end their dillydallying over the European Army and soon show the U.S. Congress they mean business, severe cuts in U.S. aid are probably unavoidable; 2) the European partners have until about April-when Congress begins budgeting foreign aid-to prove that they really want the European Army...