Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meanwhile, with breathless expectancy not a few undergraduates are awaiting the momentous decision of the complex committee as to whether they may be allowed to hear, in their own club both sides of a question...
...short, Professor Mcllwaine's interpretation is very interesting and suggestive, but not wholly convincing. Nevertheless it is an interpretation that is well worth weighing, and the book is one that will amply repay careful study. The whole matter of the why and wherefores of the American Revolution is so complex that probably no single interpretation will ever gain undisputed authority among historians, and the present study is one that cannot be neglected by any, careful student of the constitutional origins of this country...
...Greek politicians had no scruples about manufacturing mythology to fit their needs, as Mr. H. I. Brock pointed out recently in the Times,--and the Romulus and Remus fable, invented, or at least encouraged by latter-day Roman rulers, must have had an effect in developing the Roman superiority complex, which like most such complexes, was based on a feeling of uniqueness or "differentness". The growth of national legends and national folk-lore came before the awakening of national consciousness or patriotism in Europe; the results of ingeniously exploited "folk-lore", which may or may not have originated with...
John Corbin: "As for Mr. Atwill's performance, seldom has so big and complex a nature been presented with so perfect a blending of subtlety and vigor. Miss Cornell is as nearly perfect...
Before reaching his discussion of business as we understand it today, Mr. Swope traced the growth of industry and trade. The first thing that prompted business was service. "Men", he said, "exchanged products to save time, and to save labor. Then as communities grew, matters became more complex. You first had the country stores, which were finally grouped together into larger unions. Then came the chain stores, and our large department stores. Now our cities have grown so rapidly that the status of economic conditions has not kept pace with them, for the waste in the distribution of food products...