Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible to do this without a certain degree of falsification, because the surface of the earth is a spherical surface whose pattern cannot be reproduced accurately upon a plane . . . An atlas meets the problem by giving us two different maps of the world which can be compared . . . They contradict each other to some extent at every point. . . So it is with the paradoxes of faith . . . not because the divine reality is self-contradictory, but because when we 'objectify' it all our judgments are in some measure falsified . . . The higher truth which reconciles them cannot be fully expressed...
...event-say, an automobile accident-would (if anybody were fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection. The selection...
...laughter. At one point he complained that musicians were too poor even to patronize the nightclubs in which they played. Illinois Republican Thomas L. Owens quoted back a statement of President Harry Truman's that everybody had a lot of spending money. Petrillo beamed. "I don't contradict the President," he said. "After all, as a piano player, he's a potential member of the union...
...Ireland a generation ago would have dared contradict the smitten heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said...
...recent survey concludes, that the "growth and prosperity of American industry is of great benefit and importance to universities." Harvard's growing holdings in common stocks and Claflin's statement concerning the rising returns from these holdings and the consequent increase in favorable balances last year hardly contradict this line of reasoning...