Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion, the best guarantee of security for all people is imme- diate and complete disarmament. . . . The disarmament commission [of the League of Nations] is merely decorative and has not advanced disarmament a single step. . . . Should our plans for complete World disarmament seem too complex, at first, that is because complete disarmament has always been treated as a forbidden subject and has never been thoroughly dealt with...
...easier and varied intercourse between undergraduate organizations should bring about a closer mutual understanding in the complex network of student club life in the University. In its significance for the athletic and social aspects of Harvard the meeting of the Council should be noteworthy...
...given period, they are really important only as they hint at the mood or character of the people who take part in them. To understand a nation, it is necessary to know more than its constitution and its language; the more complete history becomes, the more humble, the more complex and the more exciting it becomes. But as it grows more complex it grows harder to write; selection becomes a game of chance; order and emphasis grow unruly. As in The Turn of the Century, the first of his three volumes full of Our Times, Author Sullivan has managed...
...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...
...says of that magazine that it "makes no attempt to amaze the reader with its culture" he is making a low bow in the direction of the stables of Pegasus. The insinuation, obviously enough is to the effect that in spite of Rockwell Kent and a highly developed aesthetic complex the Hound and Horn has yet to surpass the oldest of college publications...