Word: contradictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make money either buying or selling its shares. It is a well-known fact that American Woolen is a "one-man" company-the individual in question being its President, William M. Wood. Particular interest has centered around possible political consequences of the passed Woolen dividend, which seems to contradict Republican Chairman Butler's assertion that wages of textile workers would not be reduced. Democrats rejoice that all this happened under the high wool schedules of the Fordney Tariff Act, approved by the Republicans. Critics are asking: "What are William M. Wood's political affiliations, anyhow...
...leafy trees." He found Dr. Voronoff to be "tall, slender, dark, magnetic." Said the Doctor: "You should understand that every physician attends school for many years. His professors teach him that such and such things are facts. When another physician claims to have discovered new facts that seem to contradict or go beyond those previously known and taught, it is not easy for them to accommodate themselves to the new situation. . . . " As for the skepticism concerning the results of my operations there is this much foundation for it: in some cases the effect of the greffes testiculaires may be dissipated...
...allegation that he had said they paid much more for the paper than it was worth. The answer declared that Mr. Vanderlip's remarks repeating the rumor were justified by public interest, that they did no damage to the plaintiffs, that they had failed to contradict the rumor although it was current, and that the plaintiffs themselves added to the circulation of his remarks by publishing them in The Star and other papers controlled by them...
...interesting features of the stock market is the frequency with which its price movements contradict both the optimism and pessimism expressed concerning the future of business by corporation officials...
...number of the students who were present at the riot, but were not aware at the time that it was all a deception, will be called upon to testify. It is expected that a good part of the witnesses will contradict one another or be unable to give connected accounts of the affair...