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Word: complexes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treated, their wallets suavely deflated. Men whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate to his income would be charged for the finest attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Modest & Proud | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...confused with the ichthyosaurus, another, larger reptile with a tremendous head, practically no neck, four complex flippers; nor with the famed giant dinosaur which often attained a length of 70 feet, whose four appendages were limbs adapted for land travel. †The pineal (glandular) body in the human brain, which is subtly related to certain conditions of obesity and certain sexual phenomena, is generally considered to be the vestige of a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-eyed Mariner | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...substitute complex. They started just as Rockne often does, but it the game Penn kept sending...

Author: By Harry Cross and Sports Editor, S | Title: FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Mobile Register, Senators Simmons and Heflin, Governor Moody of Texas. Roman Catholicism, anti-Prohibition and Tammany were, of course, in all Southerners' minds. Governor Moody was more polite than most when he centred his fire on Mr. Raskob, whom he called "a cynical commercialist with an alcohol complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democracy | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Subscriber Rivera's sister conquer her neurosis or "inferiority complex" and boldly demand her fair share of food from the American Red Cross. Let no insolent clerk again upset her by crying, "Chow" Let Subscriber Rivera report to TIME that all is now well, or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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