Word: paradoxe
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...takes place, at the earliest, after three years of absence from the Yard and it is ladle to try and speed up a development which has all the symptoms of a natural process. Those devoted to collecting the back debts of the University would do well to admit the paradox and refrain from killing by forced cultivation a plant that will shortly grow to luxuriant productivity by itself...
...money. Theatre goers in general may applaud the quiet determination of the first unsuccessful angel who has not burdened the public with a frustrated squealing about an unappreciated mission. And there is still opportunity for Boston, a city that celebrates Armistice Day by parades: to support the reign of paradox and give the "Ladder" a profitable...
...paradox of last week was that it was the Regency, hand picked by Jon Bratiano, which demanded that his brother, Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano resign on or before Dec. 1, 1928. Naturally the insulted Tycoon resigned next morning, after an all night session of his Cabinet. The most ominous feature of the situation is that Vintila Bratiano has been for many years Finance Minister and has conducted single handed the negotiations with international financiers for a $250,000,000 loan to Rumania-a project now complete in all its details and on the very verge of consummation...
...Significance. That the happiest extant combination of word and tune so often and so narrowly escaped disintegration titillates thousands of Savoyards.* And they marvel at the paradox that the Topsy-Turvy Twins are actually product of the Victorian Age. The fitness of this origin, and the reasons for continued popularity in a totally disparate age, are logically developed in the present duo-biography. An informative digest of material scattered in diverse enthusiastic G. and S. literature, The Story is designed for the uninitiated rather than the hobbyist Savoyard. The narrative of two colorful careers in discord and in unison...
...even hint that the doctrine of overemphasis was invented merely to save the trouble of organized cheering. How upsetting it must be to the followers of conventional doctrines to have President Little of Michigan throw the full force of his opinion onto the other side of the anancient Harvard paradox. A Harvard alumnus himself, with an unusually intimate acquaintance with another side of American university life, he comes out definitely with the statement that it is the Harvard type of loyalty which is most needed in American colleges today...