Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large navy to protect Manachukuo and the status quo of the Far East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
Seventy per cent of a candidate's grade depended on an intelligence test, which asked definitions of words like "complex" and posed simple problems in arithmetic and algebra. Balance of the examination, however, was an observation and memory test which would have taxed the discerning powers of a Philo Vance...
...Mary Tilford (Florence McGee), granddaughter of the young institution's chief patroness. As poisonous a moppet as ever twisted a playmate's arm, Mary is a prodigal liar, an incorrigible marplot, the school's petted problem child. Punishment for her misdeeds arouses in her a persecution complex and a thirst to revenge herself on the Misses Wright & Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins the school by spreading the tale...
...Ideas as complex as Dr. Oud's easily get mixed. Hardly had he uttered his careful IF, than Wall Street was reading that "HOLLAND MAY DEVALUE FLORIN, Dutch Finance Minister Sounds Warning...
...criticism" of Graumont's superb film, "Power." Suffice it to say that this picture comes mighty close to marking the very peak of cinema achievement. Lion Feuchtwanger's magnificent novel "Macht" has been worked into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed by the pen of man who speaks from the abyssmal...