Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return of beer not only stirred the nation's economic interest but raised a tangle of legal questions for definitive answers to which President Roosevelt had to look to the Supreme Court. Major paradox: the new law assumes that 3.2% beer is no more intoxicating than ginger ale, yet the Federal Government stands pledged to protect from importations any State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal...
...paradox, the tendency of liberal-minded socialites to assist revolutionists against an autocratic regime has been dignified as a "law of revolution" by that eminent authority Comrade Leon Trotsky, concocter of the theory of "The Permanent Revolution" (TIME, March...
This "progressive saving," the decree advised, "can be partly accomplished by the use of weaker light bulbs." Paradox": 700 mi. south of Moscow the Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant, star turn of the Five-Year Plan, is able to generate today more current than all Moscow could waste, is unable to run at more than a fraction of capacity because factories designed to use its giant power have not yet been built within range of Dnieprostroy...
Last week soldiers of the Nanking Government were actually fighting the Soviet-financed armies of Communist bandits in Central China at the very moment when diplomats of the Nanking Government were exchanging documents of recognition with the Soviet union. This paradox was accepted in China with complacence. Chinese cheered up. A caucus of the Kuomintang (Government "People's Party") at Nanking oozed bland contentment. By three almost unanimous smash votes the Kuomintang urged the Government: 1) to "encourage and intensify" the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods?this boycott having furnished the specific excuse cited by Japan for her bombardment...
They were a people of violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes...