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Word: complexes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though this system of Government may seem complex and anomalous in the extreme, it is greatly simplified by the closely interlocked membership of the various Committees, Yuans and Councils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yen to Nanking | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...other almost human things in the presence of a CRIMSON reporter. The Televox, which, was exhibited at the training school of the Boston Elevated Company, is the nearest approach to the long-sought "mechanical man". It consists of an imaginative cardboard figure of a man surrounding a complex electric outfit which forms the man's "heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Infernal Outrage | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Infernal Outrage | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Alone among the newspapers the tabloid Daily News (biggest circulation in the U. S.) vented its wrath in a stern editorial, betrayed the liveliest inferiority complex. It baited Messrs. Morgan & Morrow with representing both the U. S. and Wall Street in Mexico, and climaxed: "By such toplofty behavior Mr. Morgan only got himself into a scene where he had not been invited, and called attention in a most awkward and public manner to the close business connections between himself, Miss Morrow's father and the United States government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Infernal Outrage | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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