Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial factor. Her lack of home...
That statement, though it expressed only an obvious truism about a remote contingency, did indeed cause chatter abroad. Britain and France loudly applauded the acknowledgment of a "Washington-London-Paris" axis. Germany officially laughed it off as electioneering talk by Mr. Roosevelt. Italy sneered at the idea of a Canadian invasion "by whom...
That young men turn both idle and fanciful in spring, and that young men are not the only ones, was a truism examined last week at a Manhattan medical celebration. At the opening of Mount Sinai Hospital's enlarged department of physical therapy, Professor Henry Cuthbert Bazett of the University of Pennsylvania gave an explanation for this seasonal phenomenon. In spring, said Professor Bazett, a human being's blood volume increases by a fifth to a third. He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter. Outside it was sleety...
...nearsighted perceptions and long-range emotions. If a gentleman, posting hastily through the slums, had a tear in his eye, it was not for the squalor and misery he saw around him, but for the sorrows of Goethe's best-selling Young Wertker. It was only a truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French Revolution his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, remarked that no such social upsets could possibly occur again in so well-ordered a world. Against this 18th Century background appeared last week two full-dress biographies of Poet Tom Moore...
...that the tercentenary is over--the heart of any university, whether it is a year or three hundred years old, is the faculty. Can it be that Harvard is senile enough to let that truism slip out of its mind? The news that the University had permitted Bernard De Voto to get away from it I heard with an emotion pretty close to amazement. Mr. De Voto's other students, and anyone else who knows his work, must be similarly amazed...