Word: paradoxe
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...oilmen who attended the 17th annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago last week there appeared a notable paradox. For while speakers lambasted Oil's perennial incubus of Taxation with might & main, many an oilman was ready to concede that in one instance, at least, Taxation had done the oil business good. The wonder worker was a particularly painful chain store tax which went into effect in Iowa in June 1935. Upon oil companies owning retail outlets it piled a new levy graduated steeply upward both on gross receipts and number of outlets. By last week...
...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones in recent weeks disclosed the following...
...more successful than Oliver Cromwell's army, or the German Republic, when he tries to solve the paradox of democracy: what to do when the majority of the people oppose democracy. There he writes in unrealities; for if a "democracy," as he suggests, uses force to defend the democratic privileges desired only by a minority, then it is no longer a democracy...
...Jeffreys suggested that if the star actually sideswiped the sun, the pulled-out gas masses would be twirled between the two like a cigaret rolled between two human palms. Professor Edward Arthur Milne, famed relativist, suggested that there may be several different kinds of time, which would eliminate the paradox of the fast rotation speeds. Professor R. A. Lyttleton brushed off and brought out a theory originated by Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, which contemplated the sun as originally a double star, one of which was pulled away by a third star. Sir James Jeans seemed pleased by all three...
Under the arresting title "Farewell to Harvard?" the current American Mercury points to the paradox of this University's relation to the New Deal. Mr. Houghton, the author is not exaggerating in this gloomy prediction of the future of the liberal university under such a form of government. He falls victim, however, to superficial appearances when he attempts to pin Mr. Roosevelt and his administration on Harvard...