Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outer Mongolia last week: 1) Japanese-dominated Manchukuo; 2) Japan's sphere of influence in North China; 3) the nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier is the Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under the nom de guerre of "General Galen," was chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang, then supplied by Soviet Russia with money and munitions...
These are questions highly complex. There is probably no one answer to the great fuss which has been stirred up about big time athletic competition, particularly football. The accusations, the organization and the values it involves will probably leave their mark on the American educational system for some time to come. Even though a more fully developed intra-mural system seems, one of the most promising solutions yet tried, the status quo is firmly entrenched. Whatever the solution one aspect of the question, is today before the student body: as Harvard was the first to build a vast stadium with...
...great opportunity for service in the solution of the power issue, there is danger of attracting people who are ruled by a Napoleonic complex, which leads them to use any method at hand, including intrigue, arbitrary force and appeal to class hatred. In my opinion such methods . . . do not contribute to the public welfare...
Society is so complex that the adjustment of the machine now receives more attention than the design of the machine itself, and the problems of the society of individuals are obscuring those of the society as a unit whole. This is perhaps the final development of the romantic conception of humanitarianism. WHANG...
...from both a progressive and a practical view-point. Not only is Mr. Landis fully cognizant of the tradition inherent in the school as it stands today, having served as a professor for eight years, but he has served faithfully and well as a public official, performing difficult and complex administrative tasks. That he will combine a thorough knowledge of the dominent trends in present-day legislation and the laws of the land, from a point of view of changing needs, with an open and liberal attitude toward the teaching in the university, is practically certain. The law school could...