Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...region in the southern Adirondack is one of the most famous geological study grounds in the country. Here the summer student may study easily early Paleozoic sediments overlapping the Precambrian complex as he "roughs it" according to the best geological tradition, living in a tent and sleeping in a folding...
Catalyst in the New Deal's complex rehabilitation formula was the Jones-Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices...
...With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive of what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find the philosopher's stone by opening their eyes than they would by keeping them tightly closed." Southern politics, says he, with its Tom-Tom Heflin, Huey Long and The Man Bilbo should be reported...
...courses, far from covering practically identical ground, have entirely different results. German 1a deals with the literary vocabulary and with composition, while German 1b deals with the more complex vocabulary which is used in such subjects as history, government, sociology, and philosophy. If the writer of the editorial has taken either of the courses himself, he will probably realize that the two vocabularies are very different--more so than in any other major language, with the possible exception of Russian. That is why German 1b is given--so that the man who wants to read material in his subject which...
...Whitney fortune expresses itself in directions which are urbane, sporting, adventurous, without being reckless, and which betray efficient and complex sophistication. The interest which most Whitneys have in common is horse-racing. Theirs is the most important name on the U. S. turf but their stables are at once so well-managed and so large that a sport which is economically ruinous for people who attempt it less elaborately costs them almost nothing. Without being either dilettantes or intellectuals, Whitneys are rarely averse to making money or spending it on enterprises connected with the arts. Without being extravagant or foolhardy...