Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes over attaining the prestige that was his if he had continued being a soldier. It's hard to believe that the jurist who had the world at his feet a few short weeks before his death would like to be thought of as a man of blood. The paradox is not only ludicrous, but grim...
...Farmers Celebrate." To alert newsfolk the difference between what correspondents cable from Moscow and what they say off-the-record when out of Russia constitutes a piquant paradox. In the autumn of 1933 famed Walter Duranty, quizzed by his New York Times superiors in Manhattan, related grim facts. Previously, Mr. Duranty had cabled merely that he thought figures showing the death rate in the Ukraine to have tripled were "too low." Last week honest Walter Duranty got off this normal Moscow dispatch: "The definite and striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, as usual, some painfully normal English folk were thrust into an eccentric setting, this time among the godlike inhabitants of an island just arisen from the sea. Strutting his pretty taste in paradox, Playwright Shaw again discussed polygamy, Empire, the Church, vegetarianism, Fascism, Indian Independence, medicine...
...provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some of the most reactionary influences in this country. It is a shivering inconsistency, explicable only by the almost bucolic innocence of practical business experience in its proponents...
...paradox was it that the same men who solemnly predicted the country's doom less than two years ago when President Roosevelt set off upon the road to devaluation, were last week desperately afraid that a Supreme Court decision might right what they once conceived to have been a great wrong. It might be ironical but it was by no means illogical. For most businessmen the Administration's dollar tinkering brought little except uncertainty. Domestic prices failed to rise in proportion to the cut in the dollar's value, and debts, particularly corporate, remained almost as hard...