Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be crucial; theoretically both candidates have an equal chance to get it. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture-merely applying the law and using the taxpayers' money-was able to remind farmers that the Democratic Party wouldn't let even nature "take it away." The surprising paradox is that the "ins" are able simultaneously to garner political credits from a disastrous drought in some parts of the U.S., and bumper harvests in others...
...them spitefully. I don't think they ever loved the drought and the locusts that ruined their first business down in your little town of Hope, a few miles south of here-a drought and the locusts that really drove them to Texas and brought about the strange paradox in our family that I was born in Texas. [The Kansans rumbled a laugh.] But they accepted these trials and tribulations, and met them with courage and with never a thought of failure. They were a part and parcel of their community, of the philosophy that then governed our lives...
...paradox of the profitable company being worth less than $400,000, and one with steady losses being touted as a "million dollar value," fascinated the Journal. "Almost any day now," it said editorially, "we expect to see an ad like this . . . EXPERIENCED EXECUTIVE. Over past five years has successfully lost $100,000 on labor and material costs and reduced sales by $200,000. Total 5-year loss personally achieved from all sources over $375,000. Available because I have done all I can with this company. Prefer company with conservative management needing shaking up. Substantial salary expected...
...Hero. In Stafford Cripps, paradox was at home. He was a millionaire descended from a long line of rich country squires, but he was born with a silver Fabian slogan in his mouth. His aunt & uncle were Fabianism itself-Sidney and Beatrice Webb. He believed first in God ("Frame our judgments . . . upon the basis of what we most truly and honestly believe to be God's will"). Second, he believed in Socialism...
Beyond the Past. This subtle architectonic paradox was no doubt far from the minds of the directors of Lever Brothers Co. (Lux, Lifebuoy, Pepsodent) when they first approached an architect to design their new U.S. headquarters. The persuasive arguments that set the design and the revolutionary innovations of the building that resulted are both characteristic of the architects they chose. In the 16 years since it was founded in a one-room office in. Chicago, the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has made itself one of the biggest names in U.S. architecture. Its billion dollars-worth of buildings stretch across...