Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of both Naval Reserve No. 1 and of Teapot Dome the oil was being drained from the Government Reserves by wells located on property nearby. If this was so, the course of wisdom was to lease the Reserves* and get the oil out as soon as possible. Experts contradict each other as to whether this drainage was taking place. Some plausibility is given to the theory of drainage by the fact that less oil has been found in both Reserves than was expected...
This peaceful penetration program does not contradict the agreement recently reached by the Imperial Russian Family at Paris (TIME, Dec. 10), except regarding the recognition as Tsar of the Grand Duke Cyril by the family, which was guaranteed if the question were to arise in the future. The House of Romanov decided to back the Grand Duke Nicholas' plan, but promised to consider Tsar Nicholas alive. "If and when Russia is reconquered, should it be found that the Ekaterinburg murders really took place, the Russian people will be asked to hold a plebiscite for a new Tsar...
...Science and experience have shown little with likelihood of surety, and nothing with certainty of it. Hence the Virgin Birth cannot be counted out on that score. Furthermore, all who deny the possibility of Virgin Birth forget that there is a class of happenings, or miracles, which confound and contradict the usual scientific occurrences, if the two groups are considered together, even as is the case when the corresponding human powers of reason and mysticism are mixed...
...French are so proud they spend their time deprecating themselves in order to give you an opportunity to contradict them. Don't fail...
Accounts from "authoritative sources" continue to contradict one another as to what part the proposal for participation in the League of Nation's International Court of Justice will play in the President's " 20 speeches" next summer. Lately the reports are that it will be made the major topic of discussion. It is declared in some quarters that Mr. Harding is determined to press his proposal "even if it splits the party." None of these reports accord well with the statement which the President made last week at Augusta, that our foreign relations have never been more satisfactory...