Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometime required three general examinations, one in the field as a whole, one in the department specialized in, and one in a very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition of isolated detail...
...realized clearly," said the Voegler-controlled Zeitung "that the Second Dawes Committee will not bring a definite settlement of the Reparations problem, but that a relatively favorable partial solution can be counted upon which will take account of the interests of all concerned. A definite solution of the whole complex problem will be possible only when the United States will consider a re-examination of its War debt demands...
...stress which could be allowed in a generator was 10,000 pounds per square inch, at present it is 20,000 pounds per square inch. "This improvement," he said, is due to the work of metallurgists and to the photoelastic determination of stress. This latter method, which is very complex, involves the rotation by mechanical stress, of a light beam in a plane of polarization. The effect is similar to that of double refraction. Straining the medium between the polarizers, which in our case is a celluloid model of the machine we are working on, increases the transmission through...
...description of two complex home games see ART, page...
...Significance. Chesterton's pencil sketches add immeasurably to the fun? "Lady Caroline Balcomb plumbing the Depths of European Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...