Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest paradox was that the innumerable explanations of the Willkie victory converged at a single point. That point was Franklin Roosevelt. To Cartoonist Harry Bressler of the New Haven Journal-Courier, it was simple: he pictured a triumphant, rearing-back Roosevelt looming over the delegates like one of mountain-spoiling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's gigantic stone visages. More complex was the realization that more than any other candidate Wendell Willkie stood as a symbol of opposition to the New Deal -not to its ideas, to which he subscribed far more than many a Republican present, but as a businessman...
...story of the man who, working from exile in Paris through his Black Front in Germany, may yet succeed Adolf Hitler by revolution, to bestow upon his country his own version of that disingenuous paradox, National Socialism...
...tortoise started. At that moment the tortoise would be some distance, however small, ahead. By the time Achilles reached that point, the tortoise would be a little ahead again. And so on to infinity -Achilles would never catch up. Wise & good men wrestled in vain with this prickly paradox until three 19th-Century mathematicians-Weierstrass, Bolzano and Cantor-demolished it by treating the mathematics of infinity realistically instead of mystically. They showed that an infinite class is no greater than some of its parts. The number of geometric points on a line a foot long is infinite. But the number...
...weeks ago the H.S.U. Yard Questions Committee got out its spade and dug up an ugly little paradox. Blinking its eyes in the unaccustomed light was the fact that next year over two hundred bio-chemistry concentrators will be unable to take a single course in their field of concentration. Evidently the light had a stimulating effect. Headed by Dr. A. C. Redfield, a departmental committee has been formed to seek a remedy. So far, so good. But if history can teach a lesson, any loud cheering is still premature. The committee is riding down a rocky road strewn with...
...Board Production Index headed steeply downward, but last week corporation earnings reports failed to show the same trend. Associated Press's tabulation of the first 90 to report showed earnings 43% above the same quarter of 1939 (68% not counting overweighty American Tel. & Tel.). The reasons for this paradox were that: 1) although production continuously declined, the quarterly average was still good because of big backlogs of orders piled up last fall; 2) first-quarter earnings looked good because they were compared with the very poor first quarter of 1939. Some sample first-quarter reports...