Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oversight. On paper it was a fine complex plan. There were only two things against it: one was that Old Stagers Halsey, Mitscher and Kinkaid were comb ing the seas with planes and submarines looking for the attack; another was the overwhelming power of the U.S. force...
Teresa finally finds fulfillment in the arms of her employer, one James Quick. Readers who follow the searchlight of Australian Author Stead's brilliant verbiage into every depth and cranny of her heroine's complex spirit will find themselves wondering if she has not overdone a good thing. In a tireless effort to prove Teresa's typicality, Miss Stead has made her a singularly atypical case...
...distinction of Lee's Lieutenants is its clarity. Dr. Freeman has written some of the most lucid accounts of military action in U.S. literature. Only the Civil War generals themselves have surpassed him. Readers baffled by technical military language can follow his descriptions of complex engagements without trouble. In the process they will become acquainted with (if they never get to know well) some friendly, simple, good-hearted and courageous officers and gentlemen...
...comment came from the Washington Post, which is more often pro-Roosevelt than not. The Post severely criticized the speech as "a cheap variety of political bushwhacking . . . at a moment when spiritual leadership of a high order is urgently needed. . . . It is doubtful whether the President's indispensability complex has ever been more boldly exhibited...
...complex problem of patents, whereby most cartels are forged, Berge is less precise. The antitrust division has no intention of a large-scale attack on the present patent laws. To help even up the tremendous advantage big business has over little business in research and invention, Berge has suggested a Government-financed bureau of invention whose discoveries would be available to all. But there is the bigger problem of the international exchange of patents-e.g., how can U.S. industry get the real benefits of foreign patents without trading their...