Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Charles Francis Adams hung a matter requiring the wisdom of Solomon. The time for awarding the Navy's annual pennant to the battleship most efficient in engineering, gunnery and communication was drawing near. Two battleships, New Mexico and Maryland had tied for first place in the complex system of scoring. Never before had a Secretary of the Navy to meet such an unprecedented crisis...
...personally drafted the law when he was Minister of Interior in the cabinet of bull-necked Plutarco Elias Calles, also a two-fisted idealist (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923, et seq.). Little was heard of it then. Printed on 160 single-spaced pages the Fortes Gil Labor Code is too complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment of his pet Labor Code...
...course this tableau was staged for the benefit of the French press and in hopes of making Chancellor Snowden feel like a Shylock. The second move of the French was to join with Belgium, Italy and Japan in presenting to Shylock Snowden a highly complex "final offer" which they claimed met 80% of his demands. What could be fairer...
Prof. Blake admitted that the psychological background of posture is so complex it may never be interpreted with scientific exactitude. But after several years of serious study he was ready to define and demonstrate a few outstanding posture-types...
...Jewish union is as simple in principle as it will be necessarily complex in practice. It means that Zionists, working for the growth of Jewish Palestine politically and in every other way, will be joined in spurring that growth by non-Zionists, whose interest is non-political and extends to other Jewish colonization projects (such as that in Soviet Russia...