Word: paradox
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Eighth-Thou shalt not suffer the paradox of poverty amid plenty else thou sinnest grievously...
...your exhibit at the Fair: you present a paradox. Your coined phrase, "The March of Time," connotes an irresistible moving force. And yet your exhibit is practically the only static thing, at the Exposition. Expected, after viewing complicated manoeuvers of spectacular science, were, at least, a handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...
...with the Emperor of Japan (see p. 37) his successor as president of United Press, Karl A. Bickel. was received in Berlin by Chancellor Hitler, put the pertinent question whether if Nazi nationalism should spread to other lands the result would be favorable to international peace. Coining a new paradox, Herr Hitler said. "The result would be 'International Nationalism' of the highest type throughout the world. . . . This would facilitate the solution of the most difficult problems...
Undoubtedly only political differences can be the cause for the existence of such an inexcusable situation. But that one of the paramount objectives of the fire department -- to save lives -- should be frustrated by its own chief is a paradox which might almost be humorous if the results were not so grave. If the City of Cambridge is interested in its own protection, even though it may not be in its government, it should support the investigation which is now being conducted, and make sure that it is carried through to its logical and only conclusion...
...college were in their cradles when the World War began; they were playing marbles when we entered it. But they are living now in the midst of the Great Depression and amid the rumors of another was hovering over Europe and over the world. They illustrate the paradox hat the youngest generation is the oldest in the way of the funded experience of the race. They will have no traffic with the exploded efficacy of war as a way to end ware. They have read too much recent history and lived too much in the midst of it to believe...