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...conclusion, Dean Matthews did examine what he called the paradox of the World made flesh,--of God dwelling among men. "How God could become man has always been a baffling mystery," he said. "But the paradox is not so very unreasonable. The way God reveals himself is through human personalities; the Word has over come through inspired persons. So it was that the Word in its complete sense came in a human, personal, life, through a man in complete harmony with God. We must accept the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity; when we do it crystallizes...
...widespread cuts in the price of crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there has been no way of stabilizing the price or the quantity of refined petroleum...
Such heraldic paradox is not entirely banished from the campus of Uncle Elihu, however, as the arms of John Harvard's rival institution still flaunt themselves boldly in Saybrook Court, where they are embossed in more permanent stone.... --The Yale Daily News...
This seeming paradox existed due to the fact, that Abraham Pierson was a student from the Charles River Emporium.... Since at the time of the founding of the College there was no official seal, it was thought appropriate to place the arms of the former prexy's alma mater in a position which cried out for some specimen of the heraldic...
...your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want in a land whose productive resources are enormous and capable of enormous expansion, it is no more shocking than the neglect of opportunity for education by thousands of those who are privileged to be enrolled in our institutions of learning, and who have...