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Word: complexities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means both the elementary schools and the universities. "Our colleges are diploma factories for department stores, giving away anything wanted, irrespective of whether it makes for happiness or discontent." The old problem of serving God and Mammon has taken on a new meaning for Mammon has developed an efficient, complex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUMBERS, PLEASE | 11/16/1926 | See Source »

With such a background of bad feeling the Princeton team is "out to get Harvard". Irritated by its own complex, which is accentuated by the superciliousness of certain Harvard gaucheries, it wants to knock this "superior" person, John Harvard, into the middle of next week. That it can be done the CRIMSON is ready to admit. That it must be done in the way and with the spirit now evident the CRIMSON deplores sincerely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON AND HARVARD | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

...been excused a little neglect of one or two of them. But Mr. Eaton habitually neglected them all, and tyrannised over the tender College in each and all of his capacities. It may be seen that in his various positions he had ample opportunity for tyranny of a most complex and disagreeable nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Suffered From Poor Food During First Years of College--Faculty Was Deposed for Mismanagement | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...snarls of thousands of well-to-do women and some men. Of all U. S. parishes, his is perhaps the most conducive not only to hysteria and hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: The Looking Doctor | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...done, they have their 60 "soft drink parlors," their brothels, and their roulette wheels. The Bad Lands have their king, "Scarface Al" Caponi, alias "Al-phonzo Brown," who has been on the throne since 1922. Never since the days of "Big Jim" Colosimo (the man with the diamond complex) has the underworld had so potent an organizer. "Scarface Al," except for the old razor gash on one side of his face, might easily be mistaken for a fat, prosperous baker. King Caponi does not bake. With his brothers, Ralph and James, he keeps the beer route flowing and the political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Industrialists v. Twins | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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