Word: paradoxity
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Mathematicians have long been haunted by a paradox: although most U.S. citizens profess to dread the study of mathematics, they are suckers for mathematical puzzles, made a best-seller of Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. The mathematicians' conclusion: the trouble is not with mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...
...down U.S. industry this week a new economic paradox was in the making. Government economists talked about the "priorities unemployment problem." But for a lot of people who would soon be out of jobs, out of victuals, out at the seat of the pants, it might just as well be called plain depression...
...character. He is a man of unquestioned idealism, "the most powerful voice in the world," who in his speeches outlines a course of action which, if carried out, means a revolutionary transformation of the world. But he also declares a national emergency "after which nothing happens." He is a paradox...
OPACS alone had over 300 letters on file last week. A sampling of them rings every change on the old poverty-in-the-midst-of-plenty paradox...
...honorary doctorate of laws in absentia from the University of Rochester, his first degree from a U.S. university. The reason the Prime Minister permitted Rochester to stage the kudos scoop of the year was that his mother, born Jennie Jerome, was a native of Rochester. But by a strange paradox, Mr. Churchill accepted the degree from a Quaker who for two years has fought to prevent the U.S. from joining Britain in the war and is a good friend of arch-isolationist Charles Lindbergh-Rochester's President Alan Valentine...