Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completion of as perfect a gesture as ever was made in any game-all four titles in one year. Nor will any real sportsman pitted against Jones in the match-play rounds do anything short of his very best to prevent the gesture from being completed. Of this stimulating paradox Jones is well aware. And he knows from experience as well as from theory that there will be many a man among the 32 qualified capable of scoring a 72 or better, that 72 or better is hard for the most mechanically perfect golfer to beat in an 18-hole...
...regions is still vague; such map-making fills a need. Without telling you anything new, he often makes you aware of what you already know, gives details as positively and clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Géraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many...
Just two votes kept James Ramsay MacDonald from motoring over to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to King George last week. By a curious paradox the result of his narrow escape left him more firmly in power than he had been for a month. Several Liberals, darkly muttering "dirty practice" and "not cricket," announced their intention of voting regularly with the Laborites, at least for the immediate future...
Still greater is the paradox that Labor derived 289 M. P.'s from 8,331,480 ballots whereas a slightly larger number of Conservative ballots (8,591,052) returned a slightly smaller number of Conservative...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...