Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money. The condition in the stock market in relation to money available for borrowing constituted almost a paradox in last week's trading. This "money" represents funds that banks are willing to lend authoritative brokers in financing their transactions. There was a great deal of it available last week and the interest rate fell at one time to as low as 3½ per cent for this class of borrowing which is known as call money or short terms loans. Added to these funds were the payments made to share and bond holders, whose coupons were collectible at this...
...cost records and full operation data of a lumber firm in Seattle, Washington, and will have officials of the company come to Cambridge as speakers. The firm, whose name is withheld, has been undergoing heavy financial losses in a period of great building activity, and a study of this paradox, with an effort to solve the problem, will occupy the students in the course for the next month...
...people, on the other a majority of the rest of the world, hardly a satisfactory division of opinion. But the fact remains that while he is theoretically inclined to view with disfavor such a position, he is quite as likely to practice not a little pride in it. The paradox is easily understandable and as closely as is possible approaches an explanation of a manner of thinking which has brought such a shower of just criticism from outsiders...
...paradox holds true in all but a few cases that a cartoonist's creatures become more famous than himself. What voter would be moved by hearing that one Sidney Smith had said thus and so about an election? Yet a recent election was visibly affected, in Texas and other states, when machine-bucking political youngsters stumped the hamlets in behalf of Andy Gump for U. S. Senator...
...German Nationalist (Monarchist) party came to the end of its long and bitter struggle against Republican Germany last week, and definitely abandoned hope of restoring the Hohenzollerns. By a grim paradox this decision was made on the 68th birthday of Wilhelm II. The occasion was the formation of a new Cabinet by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, whose old Cabinet resigned some weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Chancellor Marx took into his new Cabinet four Nationalist ministers, after their party had acceded to the four following conditions...