dictum
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The government held, and Hamilton got the economy running again using Bagehot’s dictum External link: “Lend freely, at a penalty rate, against good collateral.”
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The government held, and Hamilton got the economy running again using Bagehot’s dictum External link: “Lend freely, at a penalty rate, against good collateral.”
From Barron's
Write what you know, goes the dictum, and according to Mr. Pearl “some of this happened.”
President Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 dictum—“the chief business of the American people is business”—had become a mantra.
If Sagan’s dictum were true, we would need extraordinary evidence to prove we exist.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
