Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely confirms me in an opinion I have held for some time - that the great majority of the inhabitants of this country are morons. . . . In this land of liberty (?) any addlepate can vote on an equal basis with his intelligent neighbor (if any), on any and all of the complex problems put before them. The result is that candidates for office are obliged, if they hope to be elected, to appeal to the moronic riff raff with all kinds of fool schemes and promises. . . . T. N. WALTON...
...their paragraph on the speech of England's Best People. Authors Douglas & LeCocq disclose some of the secrets of its complex simplicity, consisting of " 'um's, 'aw's, and 'er's, the meanings of which vary according to the context. 'Um' may mean 'These are good tripe and onions.' 'You smell like a rose,' or 'Waiter, another whisky and soda.' This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection...
...Nazis abruptly split the two companies they had merged into five. "The reason is," explained Realmleader Hitler's Shipping Commissioner Essberger, "we have found that it is the large German shipping companies which have suffered most. So we must have more small companies." With his chronic German inferiority complex telling him how silly this must seem abroad, Commissioner Essberger blazed: "It makes no difference what foreigners say about our program...
Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel put in a chapter of good words for U. S. wine, say the U. S. has a needless inferiority complex about its domestic wine, but will have to clean house in the matter of dishonest labeling. They give a chapter apiece to the wines of France, Germany. Italy, Spain and Portugal; tell how to buy wine-what to ask the dealer, what prices are right. Anxious hostesses may consult a table showing what wine to serve with what dish. (Beer-swillers, whiskey-totters will find nothing for them in The Complete Wine Book; but Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel...
...instead of training experts. "One of the strangest things to me," he says again, "is how we bow down before the dicta of physicists and close our mind to the findings of fundamental economists." But how different, Mr. Neilson, is the predictability of matter and the behavior of the complex organism called man. How comparatively easy to test the validity of a physical law and how extremely difficult to test a law in which the human element plays so large a part...