Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Complex Emotions," Professor McDongall, Emerson D, Psychology...
...while Senators tried conscientiously to consider the question on its merits, the legal details were so complex that most of them abandoned the attempt and consulted their political interests. Even then, Republicans found it hard to make decisions. Some Republicans said half a Republican (Brookhart) was better than a Democrat (Steck); other Republicans thought otherwise. Some argued that if Brookhart was unseated he would compete with Regular Republican Cummins, who is up for reelection this fall, and might, by splitting the vote, cause Iowa to have a second Democratic* Senator. It was all most confusing...
Canned Vitamins. Dietitians believed heretofore that the canning of vitamin-bearing foods destroyed the vitamins? as did open cooking. Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Teachers' College, Manhattan, proved at least for Vitamin C (anti-scurvy), that oxidation makes useless this complex chemical. In ordinary cooking much oxygen reaches the food, in canning very little. Actually canned vegetables are more healthful than cooked fresh ones...
...short survey over post-war history makes us aware of the alarming fact that there have been wars of more or less importance in one part of the world or another ever since the Armistice. Inquiring into the causes of wars in general, Mr. Bakeless asserts that a complex chain of economic forces makes war almost inevitable in the modern world. "The general increase in population," he writes, "in almost every portion of the globe compels all nations to expand and thus inevitably brings them into collision with one another. Increase of population forces nations to seek colonies overseas...
Well, these weren't the only people taking pictures recently. The little square between the house of faith and the halls of charity was filled the other day by publicity hounds baying at the brother of the egg complex with cameras. All of which might lead to another sermon or disquisition or monologue on the art of drawing a crowd on Harvard Square. Now up in Vermont where I come from they wouldn't collect to see a man cat eggs. There is a subtle sanity about the country which doesn't show itself so much in the big cities...