Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Barriers. The Nida River was now an incident in the taking of ancient Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida...
...Special Assistant." By definition (the Official Register of the U.S.) Harry Hopkins is "special assistant and adviser to the President of the United States." Actually, his job is much more complex. It is a unique position in the U.S. Government. Specifically it calls for the qualities of a secretary, expediter, administrator, errand boy, good listener, executive, idea man, boon companion, and alter ego. There is no law covering it, the occupant need not be confirmed by Congress, he is responsible to no one except the President, and he can make the job what he will. When Hopkins quits (unlikely...
Still seeking victory number one, the Varsity five will face M.I.T. tonight at Tech's Walker Gymnasium, in a contest which will get under way at 8:15 o'clock. Whether the Crimson can shake the inferiority complex which they seem to be developing may be decided in this game...
...sampling of opinion "directly from the voters" is highly untrustworthy. Accurate results can be obtained only by applying an elaborate series of checks and balances concerning types of voters, voting habits, etc. His polls, explained Dr. Gallup, depend on "at least twelve important adjustments for their accuracy." In this complex mathematical calculation, involving such unknown quantities as election-day weather, the only sin of which Pollster Gallup appeared guilty was that he may have used his Xs to bring down Roosevelt's vote and failed to recognize other X factors which would bring it up again. The astonishing accuracy...
...private incentive for speed. Spry old Henry Ford expected to be turning out new cars within two months after he got the signal. Others could not afford to be too far behind. Most important, U.S. industry probably would not be hampered by any complex system of quotas which would protect established companies at the price of freezing out new companies and competition. At the beginning of the year business was highly suspicious that wartime controls would somehow be kept shackled on them in peace. But at year's end this seemed to be more shadow than substance...