Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitten in the process. The I. C. C. originally planned for mergers which would develop nine separate systems. The leading railroad men want only four systems. Apparently, agreement is slowly being reached as to the proper way of working out such a merger. Yet the situation is still as complex and interdependent as a chess problem; and for its final solution, years rather than weeks will be required...
...introspective and exceedingly modern and succeeded in being dull. It is the opening production of the season by the group of young and thoroughly intelligent persos of whom Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmund Jones and Eugene O'Neill are the leaders. Unhappily, they selected as a starter a complex and over-worded play...
...many complex reasons the study of the classics has sunk, with all the rapidity of a torpedoed ship, to a pitiable position in the interests of students in the modern colleges and secondary schools. Aroused by this catastrophe, the American Classical League has rushed assistance in the form of an imposing array of statistics by which, among other things, they show, as usual, that classical scholars have a higher average in all other subjects than do students who have not dipped into the rewarding, if difficult literatures of Rome and Athens. The inference seems to be that the classics...
...toward his lot, and the exodus to the North began. Coming in even greater numbers to new homes in a new clime, the negro finds his absolute position better than before, but his relative position worse. The ties that held him in the South are cut asunder. His inferiority complex is cast off. Now for the first time he realizes that he is a man. In outward shows the North accords him that equality he seeks; but with curdled disappointment he discovers...
...been of a blue tint, Ben might well have been the prosequor of those instructors who demand in no uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering from a suppressed blue desire, taking steps to relieve the complex. Or Ben might have been a tradesman's menial sent shivering into the yard in a heroic attempt to collect a bill. He might even have been a frivolous friend, whose staggering foot-steps led to the locked door of the artist,--where Carnival had ceded to Social Ethics...