Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Baillie of Windsor, chaplain to King George: "After visiting America, I found I was unable to sum up my impressions. America is too complex for that. New York and Virginia are as different as Paris and Vienna, Chicago and Boston as London and Edinburgh...
...wizards such as Gates, Gould, and Reid. The public feared that they would become an industrial and financial oligarchy so powerful that the whole country would be at their mercy. So the Government broke their power, dissolved the great pools and combinations, hedged the railroad business about with a complex set of rules and regulations, and held the Sherman Act like a gun at their backs. The threat of autocracy vanished, but in its stead came a progressive loss of efficiency and a growing condition of inadequate transportation which reached a crisis during the war when the Government...
...equipment, some of the greatest material in football history, and the curious Harvard spirit which presupposes supremacy. At Columbia his general coffers will be cramped in comparison, his material quite without Groton and Exeter training, and his constituency lacking in what may be termed the superiority complex. If Mr. Haughton constructs a first-class team on Morningside Heights, he has indeed a strain of genius...
...feel that the Liberal Club 'whose animating ideal shall be the open mind' should not take a stand on a subject the factors of which are so complex that complete or even substantial agreement becomes impossible...
...This vast territory is as complex racially as is Europe. Made up as it is of such a heterogeneous collection of races, it is not difficult to see why there has never been any permanent calm in the country. In regard to religion, the process of change is not new. Budhism swept over India centuries ago, and then receded. It is now slowly regaining its place among the people...