Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady in the Dark" is a complex job, as was the show, which required a revolving stage, and parts of it are worth the price of admission. The technicolor is gorgeous, and the setting impressive, making the whole movie a gorgeous spectacle. It has many of the bits that made the Moss Hart production the hit of 1941, but it doesn't go over entirely; and it's hard to place the blame...
...patternmaker in his father's stove shop in Detroit, caught the eye of Henry Ford by turning out patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant to see how the idea would work. Harddriving, brusque, he had little patience with underlings. One day a foundry foreman said...
...provided also that none of them could become effective until after they had been read to the King in the presence of four members of his Privy Council, and approved by him. Since 1939, there have been 10,836 such orders. Some long, some short, some complex, some simple-the King has heard them all. Not once has he disapproved...
...most Americans Andre Gide's name means little. Only a handful of intellectuals have long enthused over his most famous novel, The Counterfeiters (a complex study of Parisian youth), his unblushing autobiography, If It Die, and his perennial personal Journals. But last week it looked as if 1944 was going to be Gide year in the U.S. Publisher Alfred Knopf planned to publish Gide's Imaginary Interviews (discussions of art and society written while Gide was in Vichy France). French publisher in exile Jacques Schiffrin was preparing a French edition of Gide's latest Journals...
This is no mean achievement. A toll call, which must be relayed along a maze of loops and trunk lines, usually involves several skilled operators and a number of complex connections. In the new system, an operator in the town where the call originates calls the number by dialing or punching keys on a new kind of switchboard. Instead of plugs, this has a numbered keyboard like an adding machine. The message goes to the mechanical brain, called a "marker," which hunts out an available trunk line, tests a path to the destination and electrically sets up all connections...