Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small appliances are sold below list price, and say that cut-rate sales in other lines are growing fast. Several million young families, whose homes are from 75% to 90% stocked with possessions bought lower-than-list, buy no other way. Thus, while economists worry about the seeming paradox of price rises in the face of a general economic decline, the fact is that the prices contained in the rising Consumer Price Index are not what people really pay. Auto prices last year went up 3-9% at wholesale and 1.5% at retail according to the indexes. But customers...
...most curious paradox about the annual scramble to get into college is that, far from fearing they will end up with too many freshmen, many admissions officers worry about getting too few. In the College Board Review, Headmaster John Gummere of Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School describes the headaches that result from students' applying for and being accepted by as many as 20 colleges before deciding...
...colonel and his men set merrily to work, all unaware that in building their bridge, they are also constructing a hideous paradox. Even as the British prisoners, with proper pride, are drawing plans for their structure, a British Commando unit is hatching a plot to blow it up. As the bridge mounts, so does the suspense. For every timber that slides into place, the raiders (William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Home) make another march to their goal. As in some awful myth, as in all human history, creation and destruction keep inexorable step. They collide in a conclusion that will...
...models and Utopias." Logician Aron should know that doubt in one thing issues from faith in another. In any case, his is an unpractical enterprise in the present state of the French mind-like sending Coke to Cognac. He leaves France with nothing more nourishing than a paradox: "Let us pray for the advent of the sceptics...
...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...