Word: contradictions
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Soon for all Mr. Lewis' grand manner he had the supporters of the Treaty jumping up & down in haste to contradict him. Mr. Pittman: I hesitate to interrupt the Senator, but he evidently did not understand what I read. Possibly it was poorly read...
Does it not seem slightly overweening and impudent of you to so easily and readily and flatly contradict an official Government statement...
...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...