Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objection was enough to kill Sam Rayburn's request which, by the complex parliamentary conventions of the House, was no 'longer before that erratic body later when Illinois' Church-having created enough confusion for one day-was ready to withdraw it. Consequence was that the House of Representatives last week, for the first time in U. S. history, met on Thanksgiving...
...criticised the legal profession for its unwillingness to accept the progressive principles of administrative law. Our present legal set-up cannot resist for long, he feels, the multitude of new claims made upon it by our complex civilization...
...Szent-Györgyi's long researches on carbohydrate metabolism and oxidation also counted with the committeemen, but that they were largely preoccupied with Vitamin C this year was shown when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index's point was that a shy, soft-spoken U. S. chemist, Dr. Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh, was the first to isolate Vitamin C and recognize it as such, that he announced his isolation...
...there is one thing particularly enjoyed by Arizona's florid, courtly Henry Fountain Ashurst, it is disseminating bits of the complex philosophy he has acquired in his 25 years in the U. S. Senate. Last week Senator Ashurst had a characteristically involved witticism to deliver. Said he: "In times of classical antiquity there were two things unpredictable: the way of a man with a maid, and the way of an eagle on a rock (which way it will fly)." The last decade, according to Senator Ashurst, has added another equally profound human uncertainty: "What will Congress...
...wouldn't have minded that bed, or any bed, when "The Game That Kills" came on. In this picture, which seemed to have been whipped together on a rainy Sunday afternoon, Rita Haywood, a little girl with a Simone Simon complex, saves a professional hockey team from the clutches of a gambling concern. After watching the team play for about an hour, we wondered if it was really worth her while...