Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Blair Bell is a prominent surgeon and professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Liverpool. He has a high reputation in his specialties, is an authority on the pituitary gland, is author of several standard medical works, including The Sex Complex, has held professorships and won prizes at important hospitals and medical schools in London, Durham, Belfast. That he has not made public his discovery is because he desired to treat many more patients before submitting it to the medical and surgical professions. Dr. Bell's professional standing is in itself strong presumptive evidence...
That if they decline to do so, the Federal Government will have to do so for them, with the result that "many complex and extremely difficult situations must arise...
...population of Chichen Itza was about 500,000. Their decorative arts show exquisite workmanship. Astronomy and mathematics were highly developed. They had an elaborate picture writing, much of which has been deciphered, giving the clue to many dates in inscriptions and chronicles. Their calendar was the most complex and exact known in the ancient world, with a century of 52 years, and a year of 18 months of 20 days each...
...Wells with trepidation. Recently writers have become content with pages that resemble Democratic campaign speeches with all the references to Wall Street expurgated. The old masters never relinquished their ascendancy in the reader's mind by such degradations of language. They found words to express even the complex internal phenomena that cause the modern writers such difficulty. But with the other kinds of freedom which are by-products of democracy, comes the liberty to fill in the spaces for oneself. Apparently, authors trust in the reader's imagination to bridge the gaps, leaving only...
...theory of relativity is far more complex than these scattered discoveries reveal. Einstein's latest extension of the theory, recently announced, is so intricate that it can be explained only in the most abstruse mathematics. The fields of gravitation and electromagnetism are brought together by this new hypothesis in one unified explanation of the dynamics of the universe, following out the ideas originally suggested by Eddington, the Cambridge astronomer...