Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's new School of Public Administration which is housed there offers the strange paradox of being a graduate school which charges no tuition, gives no degrees, and has only 15 students...
...latest and biggest extra-curricular activity is worrying about how to run their extra-curricular activities. Tomorrow they'll be voting on this thorny problem: elected class officers, or appointments? Where there's smoke there's fire, and sure enough upon investigation this cockeyed situation reveals a basic paradox: only if and when the class votes thumbs down on elections, can they have any kind of elections they want. By all means, let the Yardlings have just what they want...
...knew only too well that examinations could be chucked just as easily as the Himalayas. He had to acknowledge that their uselessness was indispensable. The paradox was indigestible--but people swallowed it every day, and it seemed with ease...
...this paradox possible? The answer lies in the nature of the endowed institution. Harvard does not live on its endowments but on the interest which they earn. Thus, as the interest rate falls its income dwindles proportionately; so that to maintain income at a stable level, the downward trend of the interest rate would have to be offset by a proportional growth of endowments. And unfortunately there is little hope for endowments to increase: steeply progressive taxes prevent the accumulation of fabulous fortunes, and low interest rates discourage donations of large capital funds. The endowed college is hemmed...
Cordell Hull is the biggest political paradox Washington has seen in many years. With his program in large part nullified by World War II, and under its first real gunfire in Congress, with his idealistic world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...