Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
...burgeoning Transportation Corps, whose chief, Major General Charles P. Gross, West Point-educated engineer, became one of the Army's topflight commanders when Transportation was organized ten months ago. The duties of the Transportation Corps (a part of the Army Service Forces) are as numerous and as complex as those of any organization in the Army, but none is as dramatic as shipping soldiers off to war. The Transportation Corps moves the outfit-usually by rail-from the training camp to an assembly point, somewhere in the vicinity of a port of embarkation. There the soldiers spend a period...
...Preliminaries. That the rubber program has come this far is mainly due to the doggedness of Big Bill Jeffers. But that synthetic rubber, an incredibly complex chemical, is today a reality is due to the fact that other men were toiling on rubber long before the Baruch report made U.S. motorists realize the rubber crisis. The experts compressed ten years of normal development into two, created gigantic, intricate plants with almost nothing to go on except small-scale laboratory experiments. This was almost like building a Flying Fortress out of the experience of flying a kite...
Prehensile or Tactile. Dr. Wolff's classification of hands is complex but is based primarily on the use of the hand as a sense organ or as a tool for action. She lists six major types, a dozen combinations. Examples of basic types...
More than the other conquered-nations productions, this one is essentially a serious play about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...