Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor So-and-So, and are forced ruefully to reply that they are not concentrating in his department. Many of us have no idea as to who is on the Corporation or even on the Student Council. It is obviously impossible to follow every detail of an organization so complex as that of a large university, but there are certain facts that all students should know. Who are the class officers, the sport captains, the men on the season's varsity squads? This type of question, unfortunately, is not included in every man's academic catechism...
...legitimate. It is predicted that within a few years this country. With all its land and all its gigantic market system, will have to import food on a large scale. The reason why this will happen is the existence of the middlemen. The whole market system huge but too complex, is ran and for the benefit of this unproductive class, which battens on producer and consumer alike. A farmer gets $1.50 for the wool that goes to make up a suit for which we pay $80.00 the difference goes to the middlemen...
...view of the fact that the stated capitalization of most corporations is largely a matter of accident, it follows that a just estimation of the actual return in excess of normal profit cannot in many cases be attained. The evaluation of the surplus income presents a problem no complex that even the Treasury Department can offer no general solution. The continual change in the personnel of that branch of the government leads to contradictory rulings and an irritating vacillation of policy...
When Mr. Forbes and General Wood return from the Islands, Washington will be able to decide the complex problem on a basis of real facts and able suggestions from two men who know what they are talking about...
...critic. Be it said at once that I have no hostility toward the middle-western man. But I think that if he had a keener sense of humor he would not be so dead in earnest about attacking poor old Boston. He breezes into Harvard with a mental complex, of which Chicago possibly is the password. He finds here a large number of his class-mates already acquainted and firmly established in a society into which he cannot break as a Ford breaks into a show-window. He generally does not deign to make friends with Bostonians...