Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mood in which the literary undergraduate is new working, possibly it may be traceable to the instruction in composition courses, for which many of the contributions appear to have been written. I should describe it as the awareness of contrast between the ordinary American life, and the vast complex of older, deeper, more heavily charged forces which impinge upon it everywhere. This contrast, it seems to me, is exploited, openly or tacitly, with real effect by practically all the contributors...
Like his student friends, young Szymanowski went to Berlin to broaden his studies. There he picked up mannerisms of Brahms and Strauss, did not lose them for years. During the War he suddenly began to write in the complex chords of Scriabin, did most of his important work under that influence...
...positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram. The electron, which in the hydrogen atom throbbed alone around the nuclear proton, had a negative charge matching the proton's positive charge and its mass was 1,847 times less than that of the other particle. The more complex atoms of other elements were constructed from various combinations of electrons and protons...
...winner of the series between the two teams that led their respective divisions of the National Hockey League, the maximum number of games in the playoffs would be five. What happens instead is that all but the two worst of the league's eight teams engage in a complex round-robin of which the most noteworthy feature is that it provides for a maximum of 19 games. This scheme pleases hockey club owners, because they thereby make more money. It also pleases hockey addicts, because it gives them more chance to gratify their addiction. Last week, while...
William Holbrook, in charge of the dances, was wise enough not to fall back wholly upon the ludicrous effects invariably produced by men's attempting to employ the charms of women. This cruder part of the comedy is by no means neglected, but it is stoutly reinforced by some complex and highly entertaining routines, which the chorus men and chorus girls have assiduously perfected. Outstanding, however, in the line of non-dramatic amusement, are the dancing and the Indian-club juggling of John Develin...