Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some geologists, notably the European, Wegener believe that South America and Africa were once connected as part of Gondwana land, which extended half way around the Southern hemisphere. The majority, however, contradict the theory, saying that the South Atlantic deeps are too old for the continents to have ever been connected...
...means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before the jury has announced its verdict in the trial, the presiding judge is flabbergasted to find it prematurely bannered in both the Star and the Express, in headlines which flatly contradict each other...
...Baltimore, Roy Hall, 21, who was washed overboard last November when a North Atlantic gale hit the S. S. Cold Harbor, walked into the U. S. Shipping Commissioner's office to contradict the official report of his death. He had somehow been spotted by the crew of the British freighter Maidenhead after swimming out the gale for two days...
...also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus we expect hauteur in the King Charles spaniel, conrage in Scottish terrier, selfishness in the Pekingese, and gentleness in the St. Bornard, Man does not yet know the dog however, for two of his most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge can scarcely be said to exist where one finds such a contradiction, and the Dachshund or the Dalmatian, the Great, Dane, or the Alsatian, may well wag their respective tails...
...Delegate Victor Hoo buzzed in to sting the Secretary General. "What does he mean by saying Japan now has no 'obligations'?" asked Dr. Hoo. "It is not for M. Avenol to interpret the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a wide sense he has ventured to contradict Article i, Paragraph 3!" This article provides that a League member may withdraw after two years' notice only if "all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal...