Word: paradoxe
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...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...
When the history of 1940 is written, a strange paradox will be recorded. The main repository of democratic hopes in the Far East was a military dictatorship: China...
...generic word for a generic product, "nylon" looks like a permanent addition to the language. Most manufacturers prefer to trade-mark their courage. Paradox is that Du Pont (and Webster's) still capitalize Cellophane, a far more generic word to the man-in-the-street...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...