Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bushel, cotton $2 a bale. But most businessmen, who regard the dollar's stability as more important than its value, heaved a sigh of relief. And their feeling was reflected in a rising market for both Government and corporate bonds. Said the Baltimore Sun: "It is a paradox that a Presidential message which proposes to perpetuate revolutionary changes in the nation's monetary system should carry encouragement to conservatives, and yet that is the probable effect." Even the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer opined: "The President is for sound money. There is not a crumb of confidence ... for inflationists...
Besides those gloomy figures Director Vidal contemplated the paradox that while there are 14,000 licensed pilots in the land there are only 7,000 licensed planes (including some 600 of each employed on transport lines). Also there are 11,000 student pilots, 8,500 mechanics-potentially 33,500 new plane-owners right at hand. The reason for this situation was simple. Since airplanes are practically handmade, you cannot buy much of a ship for less than $2,000; and if you want room for two or three extra passengers it is apt to cost...
...paradox is the fact that hot, dry, healthful Southwestern U. S. cities have high tuberculosis death rates. Tuberculous persons flock there seeking health. Statistician Frederick L. Hoffman reported in The Spectator last week that El Paso, Tex. last year had the highest pulmonary tuberculosis death rate in the U. S., 201.3 deaths per 100,000 population, followed by Little Rock, Ark. with 154.4. Large Negro and Mexican populations also up consumption death rates in Southern and Southwestern cities...
...Liberals's gain of 5 and loss of 33. But if one can believe the opinion of John Strachey, once a confidant of the higher-ups in the Labour Party, this success at the polls will bring surprise not unmingled with consternation to the Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily explained: for years it has been the face-saving excuse of Labour officials that though they had power, they had no majority, and therefore no chance of effecting the socialist legislation to which they were pledged. To the average coal-miner this seemed reasonable enough. But what will...
...struck by a paradox. The University gives Music 4, a course in the Appreciation of Music. About 200 music-loving undergraduates can be seen at the local and Boston Symphony concerts. There is a course in the appreciation of art, Fine Arts 1d, and maybe 50 undergraduates attend the Greater Boston art museums in a week. The University gives no course in the appreciation of football, and yet over 2,000 go to the local exhibitions. At mid-western colleges we are told, a man may major in football, and then go to Law School to take special courses...