Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form and music, respectively, were the most durable representations of the ultimate verities. Despite this curious disparity there was no evident bewilderment among the listeners. They seemed to accept the various views with a fine philosophical impartiality that might be expressed in a paraphrase of Whitman: "The professors contradict themselves? Very well, they contradict themselves...
...modified by the contours of his country, the bias of a mountain race, the tendency of a trade route. Not pretending to be anything but a "poor ama-teur," Author Van Loon makes a blanket apology for statistical inaccuracies, explains that the authorities he has had to depend upon contradict themselves. Doubtless few professional geographers will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some. The graphic sketches and three-dimensional maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with...
...check up. The white-crowned, white-whiskered old man telephoned Secretary Doak that the statistics given him warranted no such declaration. Thereupon Secretary Doak recalled the newsmen, told them to disregard his earlier statement and then, in front of them, gave Statistician Stewart a tongue-lashing for daring to contradict his chief. It was Secretary Doak who refused to certify Mr. Stewart's indispensability to the President, thereby depriving...
...Dapper Don Carlos Davila began the week down but not out. He had resigned as Provisional President from the original revolutionary Cabinet when forced out by Col. Marmaduke Grove who became the new Head of the State (TIME, June 20). Lying low as a leopard, Don Carlos did not contradict rumors that he would let Col. Grove send him to Moscow as Chilean Ambassador. In Moscow his job would be to barter Chilean nitrates for Soviet petroleum. But instead of leaving for Moscow, Don Carlos circulated among army officers of his acquaintance...
Sirs: At last I have found something that I can contradict in the pages of TIME magazine, on very good authority. I refer specifically to p. 54 of the April 11 issue of TIME magazine. The notice is headed "Slip" and refers to what is, without a doubt, a remarkable accident record of 795 days [at Remington Typewriter's Syracuse factory ]. However what we take exception to is the statement made by F. E. Redmond, director of the educational bureau of the Associated Industries of N. Y. "It is the greatest individual factory safety record in the history...