Word: paradoxe
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...familiar New Deal attack on Business last week precipitated a quarrel over a familiar New Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...
Whatever effect this had on the honest membership, it achieved a Labor paradox. A so-called C. I. O. audience booed & hissed every mention of the name of John Lewis...
...Warfield Monroe Firor of Johns Hopkins has long worried about this paradox. About 18 months ago he got the hunch that the tetanus toxin which causes the first stage of the disease must be different from the poison which causes the second fatal stage. To test his hunch he injected both small and large amounts of tetanus toxin directly into the spinal cords of more than 60 dogs. The injections were always followed by muscular paroxysms and death, even though 100 times the neutralizing dose of antitoxin was in the bloodstream and even though some doses of the poison were...
Some courses, such as Chinese 10, are "snaps" because they are too easy. This is fairly obvious. Others, including Geography 31, are "snaps" because they are too difficult. This paradox resolves when it is understood that the examination questions (in, e.g. geography) are too complex to be answered by anyone short of a Van Loon. The professor, gazing sympathetically from his Olympia, recognizes this by giving generously...
...young man named Francis R. Wilcox last week sailed from Manhattan for Europe to do something about the prime paradox of U. S. farming-that farmers are poor because they produce so much. Vice President of Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Francis Wilcox is one of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace's export experts...