Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without Charity. From Washington, the whole question of U.S. postwar loans looked considerably more complex...
...answer was the Yukon town of Whitehorse-as a bank clerk once more, but a bank clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
...things done in the midnight sun. . . . Though I did not know it [The Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type, were so enthusiastic that the publisher returned Service's $100 and decided to take a chance...
Beneath the nations and their complex dealings were the peoples themselves-curiously alike, as curiously different. Even their children were as far apart as the proudly "different" boys of London's Westminster School and the regimented moppets of Japan...
Most popularizers of science operate on the hopeful theory that anything, no matter how complex, can be reduced to terms a layman can understand. Radio hardly ever bothers...