Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor Leo P. Crespi thinks, as his letter (TIME, Aug. 5) seems to indicate, that the human animal differs from other animals, notably the donkey, because of $50,000-a-year businessmen who become $15,000-a-year college presidents, then no donkey need suffer an inferiority complex. I've met a few college presidents in my day; and all those who were, or ever could be, $50,000-a-year businessmen, you could list on the end of a carrot-the small...
...research has taken Dr. Tom D. Spies (rhymes with fees) deeper and deeper into the dim regions of deficiency diseases. It has also led him to major medical discoveries. Last week in Science he announced a new one with a report that folic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, was a remedy for tropical sprue, a widespread disease in such teeming, undernourished lands as Puerto Rico...
...Movies-with-sound, using a complex mixture of inventions by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Edison, Lee de Forest and others, are now some 57 years...
Sylvia (pouting provocatively): "You're a practical man who understands the complex business of winning elections. I'm a woman who wants to be the next governor of this state. With what you know . . . and what I have to offer . . . we'd be a pretty hard combination to beat...
After months of backfiring and breakdowns, the complex surplus property machinery of the Foreign Liquidation Commission finally seemed to be running right. This week the FLC, which handles sales abroad, proudly reported that between March 31 and June 30 it had sold over twice as much surplus property as in the previous year of operations. And it had brought in about 30% of the property's original cost, far more than had been hoped for during the FLC's bumbling early days...