Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox at all to say that peace makes war and that war makes peace...
...Negro females, 5.3% white males, 3.2% Negro males. Knocked west was a longtime maxim: the Negro suffers from racial susceptibility to t.b. Nevertheless the Negro tuberculosis death rate is still five times that of the white race, possibly due to lower living standards and less medical attention. This apparent paradox showed the impossibility of estimating t.b. among the living from t.b. mortality tables-a conclusion that might account for Dr. Reuling's Fair findings...
...apparent paradox in Brazilian policy is explained by the fact that whereas in Italy and Germany autarchy was a means to external aggrandizement, in Brazil it was a means to internal development. Massive, unwieldy, naturally rich but undeveloped, Brazil was in danger of falling apart by centrifugal force when Getulio Vargas took it over...
...fleet cannot be built in less than seven years-the Canal is the only insurance the U. S. has against leaving one of its coasts undefended against attack. If an enemy should succeed in blocking or capturing the Canal, that insurance would no longer exist. Hence the first paradox of U. S. strategy: the most vital point for the defense of the continental U. S. is an isthmus 1,300 miles south of Miami...
...raid. And if any enemy were not marvelously successful in his first attempt he might well fail for good. But operating from bases in the Caribbean he could go about his business much more methodically. The only effective defense is to keep him at a distance. Hence the second paradox of defense. The best way to defend the Canal is to defend seas 1,000 to 2,000 miles beyond the Canal...