Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decision is sometimes too preachy, often too lurid. It crams the son's complex reorientation into a single scene. Moreover, if Decision gains in sharpness by keeping its drama human and local, it loses in stature: though representative, its characters do not have behind them quite enough sense of contending, irreconcilable forces...
...running," implied it would soon be turning out one-seventh of the U.S. butadiene. Actually only half the plant has been completed. The remainder will not be finished until April. And getting a butadiene plant into peak production may easily take six months, with each new production kink a complex problem that may shut the entire plant for days...
...ship operators are uneasy. The prospect ahead of them is so breathtakingly vast and complex that they are sensibly afraid of it. By the end of 1944 the U.S. will have the greatest merchant marine in history-5,000 ships, about 50 million tons-flying the U.S. flag...
...study of American Negroes. After five years of research, assisted by a staff of some 75 Carnegie Corporation-financed helpers, Sweden's Myrdal found that his whole ambitious project hinged on one simple question: "What goes on in the minds of white Americans?" Last week he published his complex, 1,483-page answer, called it An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper; 2 vols...
...ample evidence indicates that the weapon is a "crewless, radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives and just enough fuel to get it to its target, can be accurately directed to its objective." Allied experts learned of the device and put the finger on its main weakness: complex launching mechanisms needed to get the projectile-aircraft into flight. Allied reconnaissance planes spied out the emplacements built to house the launchers, and bombers from Britain have been attacking the installations since last November...