Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of most of our engineering schools up to the present time has been planned primarily to train technical men for industrial plants, transportation systems and the public utilities. These enterprises have become increasingly complex, and their problems are not merely technical, but also in large measure labor and management problems. There are great opportunities for scientifically trained men in the administrative field of the great industrial and engineering undertakings. And the School has recently inaugurated two undertakings intended to fit its students better to profit by such opportunities; namely, industrial cooperation, and five-year programs in engineering and business...
...doubt very much, however, whether the newspapers or the people making these charges against Poland have any definite knowledge as to the very complex racial character of the territories demanded by Poland. They talk about Vilna, so warmly claimed by the Poles, as if it were a Lithuanian city to which Poland had no right. As a matter of fact, there are only two thousand Lithuanians in the city, while the Poles are over fifty per cent of the population. The whole district surrounding it is overwhelmingly Polish...
...curriculum before this system was inaugurated had aimed specifically at training them men who design and operate our industrial plants, transportation systems and public utilities. The engineering enterprises, however, have become increasingly complex; these problems are no longer mainly technical, but are also in a large measure labor and management problems. The new plan of instruction fits the student to meet these new conditions...
...chief Spanish dramatists. He is preeminently a satirist, but his humor shows itself most in the double meanings that abound in "The Governor's Wife." Being an actor himself, he was able to ignore the common precepts of craftsmanship and to make his style one of the most complex and highly personal in literature...
...more about that, you must ask Freud, who, no doubt, knows more about fairy tales than most of us. . ." I suppose that we may soon overhear from the nursery, "Now, Mary, stop crying, and mama'll read you some pretty stories out of the Satyricon." Incidentally, I wonder what complex led Mr. Train to use "woken" as a past participle...