Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least that was the Japanese story. According to other Japanese stories, in the past six weeks 251 Soviet Mongol planes have been shot down on the remote Manchukuoan-Mongolian frontier by numerically inferior Japanese defenders who lost only eleven planes. There was no one to contradict them but the Russians. And contradict them the Russians did. Moscow reported that Soviet Mongol casualties were only 32 planes, far less than the 91 Japanese planes they said they had shot down...
...many other TIME readers noticed that you contradict Paramount's sound camera in reporting that Mr. Paderewski speaks English without trace of an accent [TIME, Feb. 27] ? L. L. BENTLEY Lancaster...
...stepped up beside the grey-haired Governor before an audience of 500 in the Assembly chamber. He listened to a speech in which Culbert Olson simply stated his conviction that the Preparedness Day bombing was not the work of Tom Mooney. The Governor waited 30 seconds for someone to contradict him before he handed over an unconditional pardon...
...from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious their plight. Contrasuggestibility (perversity) that also accompanies this disease was aroused by the persistent efforts to get him inside. Finally, his desire to contradict overcame his urge for life...
...watching the effect of these and other cholagogic (bile evacuating) substances on the little gall bladder of the telescope fish, Pharmacologist Viehoever hopes to be able to contradict "the dictum of the medical profession that surgery is the stones." only remedy for the removal of gall...