Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sydney Carton is probably the most complex character Dickens introduced into his many novels, but Ronald Coleman portrays all the idiosyncrasies of the drunken lawyer with an ability that places him among the first of the serious actors of the screen. That indifference which made Bulldog Drummond one of the famous roles of recent years is combined with an underlying nobility which is the keystone of Carton's actions and philosophy...
Last week lovers of verbal clarity placed the eldest of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's seven Justices on a pedestal beside Senator Glass. Up for decision had been a complex case involving an insurance company which insured "C. D. Brower, Jr. and/or the Sturgeon Bay Company," against liability for accidents except "to any employe of the assured. . . ." Brower was a trucker who had contracted to do a job for Sturgeon. When a Sturgeon employe was injured in a collision with a Brower employe the insurance company tried to wiggle out of paying Brower's damages by arguing that...
Readers who note the comments on the English spirit, English genius, character, history which run through Maurois' books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy...
...Harvard Dramatic Club produced Edward Eager's "Pudding Full of Plums" last night at Brattle Hall, and will continue to produce it until Friday night. The play was supposed to be amusing and it was amusing. As the only complex character in the play Miss Lois Hall was successful in a manner of speaking. She delivered her lines with feeling, but the continuous tenseness of her voice lent an unsought atmosphere to certain moments in the first and second acts...
...materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors of electricity. Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed water turns solid (''ice") in five different forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased...