Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Review of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contemplating U. S. housing, last week pictured the "houses of the future." Previewer was John Ely Burchard 2nd, of Boston, professional investigator of new methods and materials for building. He finds "the home of the poor man ... an economic paradox," pays no attention to the home of the rich man "who can afford to remodel anything to his personal desire...
...Runciman Paradox- In London last week came this supreme paradox: Tycoon Walter Runciman, the great Liberal shipping man (Royal Mail and associated companies) whose family stands rooted in the business and politics of Free Trade, was obliged personally to draft and put into effect measures making nearly all manufactured articles liable to a British tariff up to 100% ad valorem. Thus historically he hauled down the standard of Free Trade...
There are two causes behind this paradox. One is the natural desire of donors to see their gift take permanent and tangible form, as in a building, and their natural reluctance to sink money in the bottomless pool of unattached funds. The other important factor that has been overlooked is the lack of proportion shown in apportioning money within a given fund. It is bad planning of this sort that decks house libraries lavishly with Oriental rugs while it scrimps on accomodations for the tutors who are so essential to the full working of the house plan...
...Nanking last week was the most important fact in China. Had the young marshal refused to come, had he made excuses tarrying up North in Peiping or Manchuria, the game of President Chiang would have been definitely up. The President's strength is now in the North, a paradox, for he got his start in the South at Canton, where revolution burst last week. From Canton in the brief space of two years (1926-28) President Chiang conquered all China. His only hope of maintaining this conquest now lies in the friendship of Marshal Chang and other Northern leaders...
...connection with the proposed Memorial Chapel, as to whether the dedication should be made to include the Harvard men who died fighting in the World War on the side of the Central Powers. A War Memorial erected to the memory of men who died as enemies must involve a paradox unless the dedication is made in a spirit broader than that of war itself, for war is an essentially partisan affair. Only through a disregard of the limited nationalistic point of view can the paradox be eliminated from such an impartial dedication. As the Chapel is to be a Harvard...