Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools now growing up around liberal arts nuclei at universities as definitely vocational in character and effective in operation. By comparison, the liberal arts nuclei are of low intellectual tone, their students concealing beneath an assumed pride in a jovial, carefree life, the black despair of an inferiority complex...
...peculiar zest and color of their rambunctious settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...
...Fleet returns shortly from Australia waters, one of the Navy Department's periodic shakeups, in which officers are alternated between fleet and shore service, will place the two former midshipmen in ranking command of the U. S. Naval forces afloat, Admiral Samuel S. Robison, sturdy, stocky determined, dark complex-loned with iron gray hair and a close cropped mustache, will become Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, succeeding Admiral Coontz. And Admiral Charles F. Hughes, "huge friendly and dynamic," ruddy-complexioned and bushily mustached, will assume the second ranking command-that of the Battle Fleet...
Miners of South Wales did their best toward solving the complex problem by suggesting that wages should be regulated, in the lower ranks of the coal industry, by the size of a man's family. An example: If a worl.er gets 5s per diem and has a wife, he would draw an additional shilling and 3d; 5d for the first child, 4d for the second, 3d for the third and 2d for the fourth...
Before finding fault, may I express my admiration for the way in which you handle in small space complex matters apparently accurately? It is often easier to write a book than a sentence. Because of this general high level of accomplishment, it seems worth while to point out a recent misstatement...