Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exalt the memory of the Montezuman emperors. This campaign has culminated in a feeling that the Roman Church is antinational. This is the reason why we need expect no Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them to offer violent resistance to the Government's measures. "My first call was upon the Archbishop, Monsignor Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies...
Andrew William Mellon: Who with rare courage and sagacity has conducted on enduring principles the public finance of a vast and complex nation...
Furthermore as soon as one gets past the abstract values of the situation and faces realities the publications of honor become very complex. For honor embraces not only regard for the truth but fidelity to obligation as well, and pressure of the latter can easily confuse the student into thinking that the use of a crib is not only harmless but even honorable. All students are under heavy family obligations, parents have paid hard-earned money for their education, and expect passes, not flunks. In addition, athletes are under heavy obligations to the student body. They have been showered with...
...sleepy-seeming eyes and the insinuating voice. At 72 he is withdrawing from his Boston practice, but not from the editorship of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In academic life he is certain to have large classes, for his plans are to teach not alone the causes and the complex descriptions of psychopathic conditions, but also the cures* so far as present knowledge and his ingenuity can suggest such. He will bring living cases for study, explain the facets of their idiosyncracies...
...course of his evangelical discourse this self-appointed disciple announces, with the cock-sureness common to all those inspired by the 'holier than thou' complex that "the lack of religious feeling in Harvard has reached such a point and is so well known that something must be done about it." This statement of our Defender of the Faith is wrong or right according to the meaning of the term religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance...