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...research and educational requirements in the last two decades have raised dentistry to its proper scientific and social plane, as one of the most important instruments in the preservation of health, happiness and longevity. The failure of poorly informed or unobservant reporters (if I may be permitted this paradox) to realize these facts, leads them occasionally to still refer to dentists in the press with gross and distorted humor as "tooth carpenters," "tooth yankers," and such. Therefore., this letter of regard for your aptly reported article...
...artifice of paradox is essential to the art of politics. Desiring peace among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter?Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present?and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...
...other words: For Jackson Diners, the paradox of a Democracy without definition. From the Democratic nominee-presumptive, a demand for definition beyond doubt...
...impairment at the hands of the thoughtless. No one would wish a permanent "verboten" to be hung on communication in the Reading Room, but it would be not unagreeable if a tacit agreement of this nature should be in control for this month, at least. It is an unflattering paradox to the excellent co-operation of the Library during the Reading Period that within its seventh circle, an illegitimate kind of co-operation should rear its ugly head...
...debate was a paradox. Republicans, for once, argued for states' rights while democrats exalted the Federal power. South Carolina's flowery Blease was the only Democrat who became loudly alarmed over a precedent which might some day return to plague Southern gentlemen charged with smothering the Negro vote...