Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court. Bankruptcy cases strain the integrity of the best U. S. courts. Countless dollars are held in trust by the court, countless assistants are named to administer them. The judicial machinery is cumbersome and complex, understood only by legal experts. Large are the potentialities for graft and corruption...
...expected, but the continuance of the present wisdom of those in charge should certainly result in a corresponding development in the taste of its patrons. Certainly false felts are quelled and a satisfactory hope for the future aroused by the initial exhibit of this most recent addition to the complex of advantages that is Harvard...
...American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems are too complex to be solved judiciously by anyone who is not a specialist in the field involved. And yet the feeling has been that the professors, who were in many cases the best fitted by their special knowledge to deal with these difficult problems, have denied the world at large the benefit...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...
...natural resources have steadily been working on the improvement of methods for estimating the nature of bodies concealed in the crust of the earth. No methods have been found or are likely to be found that will give a final and complete answer to this problem. encountered in the complex conditions that exist in nature, but with constant study more and more ways of scanning critical evidence of various sorts are being developed, so that today one "guess" about what is ahead of the pick is likely to be considerably more accurate than in the past, and there is reason...