Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promise thrills or mysteries." The hot sun soared over Mexico. Mr. Morrow lay among the big pillows reading. As the afternoon shadows lengthened, a secretary was again seen passing through the murmurous streets to the newsstands, the bookstalls. The gnomelike figure among the pillows, habituated to reading rapidly through complex business and legal documents, had used up more detective stories before sunset than most men could read in a week. "Almost a dozen," said the Associated Press reporter assigned to the case...
Closer than David & Jonathan, closer than Manuel & Esteban, were Daisy & Daphne. Closer because their relationship was not that of equals: Daisy admired from the depths of her self-disgust, Daphne tolerated from the fastnesses of her self-confidence. And because Daisy's inferiority complex cowered behind Daphne's blithe assurance, Daphne was bound the closer by protective responsibility for the girl she despised...
...Chinese press of Peking told excitedly in dainty, complex characters, last week, strange news of the great but fallen Scholar War Lord...
...sits there in a carved chair with nothing in front of him but a long list of his day's appointments, giving decisions on the manifold and complex questions that come before him with extraordinary powers of memory and judgment...
...hold the song and dance celebration. In 1918 the class of 1921 put the affair on its feet once more with Smith Halls again proving its vocal supremacy. However, it remained for the Class of 1922 to make momentous changes in the Jubilee complex and increase the tempo...