Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been no accident) crashes into a lake in the first chapter till the last (which holds promise of yet another sequel, The Rover Boys Shipwrecked or A Thrilling Hunt for Pirate's Gold), all is frolic, action and fun. True sons of their parents, these-not a complex or a suppressed desire in a barrel of them. "And here, while the Rover boys and their chums are getting ready to give the girls a glorious good time, we will say good...
...five-day trial cruise in southern waters; that the cost of the trial trip will be $120,000, of which $13,000 will be caused by the presence of guests, and that the experts "insisted" that there should be between 400 and 500 guests to test the " complex organization and service machinery " of the ship...
...this is part and parcel of the young-old grad, or Conrad, complex. But one of its principal ingredients has not been mentioned the challenge to middle age implied in the class secretary's facetious and back-slapping form letter. "Here are the old names, the old setting," it says in effect; "we dare you to fit yourself again into the picture...
...possibility of foreign policy as a football has only been realized to the full by politicians in recent years. A foreign policy excites both patriotism and idealism; its results are usually complex enough to bear two interpretations; and, best of all, this country is not likely to feel its effect for some time. It was a great discovery. It has almost completely revolutionized this country's conduct of foreign affairs, for a President, before putting a foreign policy into effect must first examine the entire political situation at home...
...Frank Vanderlip, banker and economist, has recently indicated his preference for the western as compared with the eastern student. The college man from the West, says Mr. Vanderlip, is far more eager to learn, but is handicapped by an inferiority complex. Mr. Don Seitz, Managing Editor of the New York World, in his article published in the CRIMSON this morning, while hesitating to draw any invidious distinctions, attacks the same problem--lack of eagerness for intellectual knowledge, lack of interest in the questions...