Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute with man the mastery of the world. Thus says H. G. Wells in his chapter on evolution in the "Outline of History". Indeed, football's salamander has already come to light--the University of Pennsylvania has taken to horse-shoe pitching as a sublimation of the athletic complex...
...Name and locate an important seaport in China; one of the world's largest cities not situated on navigable waters; a source of electric power in Africa; a mountain range of the complex type; the seat of an ancient civilization in Central America; a powerful city of ancient Syria, now fallen into decay; a country at the headwaters of the Nile; a region in the Southern Hemisphere with a monsoon climate; a French possession in the West Indies...
Dean Briggs said that the facts of the poem were essentially true and that they were brought to Browning's notice through an old document which he picked up for a pittance. The author introduced his imagination and into the story wove a complex plot. The author shows a wide knowledge of Italy, but his most remarkable understanding is of the relations between man and woman. Browning was masculine to the core and it was this quality which enabled him to write so well on the subject. He put everything he had into his writing and this included human insight...
...everlasting glory of these splendid young men, be it known that they responded nobly. Almost over night the Army and Navy found themselves supplied with thousands of the finest type of young man the country affords, skilled not only in radio operating but entirely familiar with the complex apparatus. To a man they had built several of everything to do with a radio station, and although the military aparatus was larger and more powerful and more perfectly built, the principles were identical and far from strange. It was a splendid record, and one which our citizens generally should keep...
...records are so complex and concern such a host of varied topics, that it has taken five solid days of my own time and that of my two confreres. Dr. Bonaparte and Leon Cavallo, to sort and tabulate the material. But our patience has had its own reward; we are now equipped with all the data needed for running a great university on the most efficient plan...