Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition offers wide experience in the large variety of work connected with the management of a large and complex organization. Even for men who fall to win one of the six positions open to Freshmen, there is much valuable training to be gained...
...Instead of string and wind instruments, the Javanese produce their music with a complex system of gongs, bells and celestas, achieving a cohesion of rhythm beyond the hopes of an occidental orchestra." Different gamalongs, said Stokowski in an awed whisper, played long, complicated programs in different courtyards without leaders and without mistakes. "I tried," said the leader of the Philadelphia Symphony, "to arrange with a Javanese prince to send his entire orchestra of several hundred to Philadelphia . . . they are splendidly barbaric...
...physicist, songwriter, stood before one section of the B. A. A. S. with some tin tubes. By solemnly blowing and wiggling his fingers he made the tubes give out familiar words. This was his way of proving that sounds could be resolved into simple elements and contrariwise, combined into complex sounds. He urged further scientific study of phonation so that eventually all people will pronounce their words uniformly...
Further you seem to have a religious complex. The fact that Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady is a Roman Catholic has little or nothing to do with her qualifications as head of the Girl Scouts of the Nation...
...vast is the project, so complex the factors, that Nominee Hoover might well have wished to avoid stump discussion of Boulder Dam. But Senator Johnson, his alleged ally, without whose friendship California might not be Hooverized, last fortnight cried out that "no man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain" (TIME, Aug. 13). And so, after his multitudinous reception in Los Angeles last week, Nominee Hoover mounted the city hall steps and said...