Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turmoil no one was prepared to say straight out why the semi-Asiatic, often inscrutable bear had lifted a warning lip at the lion. Guesses were a dime a dozen, but few fitted the known facts. Practically no one believed that Moscow had merely played another card in the complex game of Poland's postwar frontiers. Pravda's bad-mannered belch clearly had some deep but hidden bearing on inter-Allied relations for war & peace...
...Navy Secretary Frank Knox and War Secretary Henry Stimson wrote a joint letter to the Council of State Governors. Obviously, they said, 48 individual States could not handle the complex job of polling servicemen: "The War & Navy Departments do not advocate or oppose any particular voting legislation. . . . [But] the Services are unable effectively to administer the diverse procedures of 48 States as to 11,000,000 servicemen all over the world in primary, special and general elections...
...Match to a Fire. Professor Bogomoletz' description of ACS's complex action in the body reads like one of Professor Einstein's "simplifications" of his theory. The serum's effects begin to show about the time of the second dose. First signs: 1) increased ability of blood substances to enter cells; 2) dilated capillaries; 3) a rise in lymphocytes (a kind of white blood corpuscle). Three or four hours later, a second stage begins, during which lymphocytes decrease and monocytes (another kind of white corpuscle) multiply and migrate from the blood into the solid tissue. Cells...
...Boyle has sold the Left Bank down the river. For some 20 years a per sistent expatriate, Minnesota-born Novel ist Boyle is the author of Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, Plagued by the Nightingale and eleven other volumes about complex, erratic and usually perverse characters. Author Boyle's writing has been called "obscure," "elliptical," "addled," "sinewy," and possessed of a "cold greenish brilliance...
...received in Boston was steadier and my associations more regular and calmer than they would have been in Spain, but there was a terrible moral disinheritance involved, an emotional and intellectual chill, a pettiness and practicality of outlook and ambition, which I should not have encountered amid the complex passions and intrigues of a Spanish environment...