Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davidson College is an educational paradox. Trying to fan the flames of a 116-year-old liberal tradition, the college at the same time demands an almost rigid conformity from each of its 800 students...
...veteran Green team that enters the Stadium today is a paradox of fumbles, interceptions, sometimes powerful, often inept defense and somewhat impotent offense...
...jargon of philosophers, Phillip H. Rhinelander is a paradox of being and becoming. For forty-four years' change and diversity have been second nature to him. He is a philosopher turned lawyer turned administrator. He writes, sails a yawl, plays a piano, composes light operettas and teaches Humanities 4. Perhaps his breadth of interest is fitting, for as the new Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander is at the helm of a diverse amalgam of courses that is the College's most important educational experiment of the generation...
Spring practice was the other thing that soured the man's mind and left him prepared to leave. The Yale de-emphasis caused both ends of his unhappiness and shaky position, in a great paradox. For at the same time that the grads of the Albie Booth era were refusing to realize that theirs was not now nor would ever again be the Top Dog, Herman was very upset by the spring cancellation, something he considered uncalled for, depriving him of his rightful look at the freshmen. The coupling of these two made him somewhat receptive towards any new deal...
Said Skouras: "I think I can do more for my country in my private life"-a paradox which, true or false, lost nothing from its delivery in a steam bath...