Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue at stake is complex, technical and peculiarly vital to Siamese under sentence of Death. In the opinion of His Majesty, Premier Bahol was wangling into a new law clauses under which the King is deprived of his right to pardon a condemned criminal or to consent to his execution...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...
With no silk, no cotton and only 3,500,000 sheep, German efforts to find synthetic textiles are at fever pitch. Rayon production is rigidly protected by import quotas and encouraged by a complex system of rebates to manufacturers. Substitute fabrics, mostly rayons, have been developed to replace woolen and worsted dresses, knitted dresses and full-fashioned silk hosiery. Next problem is men's suits and overcoats. At a recent chemical congress in Cologne the prophecy was made that suits of zelluloid, zellon and galolith (artificial wools) would soon appear, and hats of flirro (fibre made from Cellophane...
...gorgeous, jewel-studded robes the Serbian Patriarch and his bishops celebrated with their priests and acolytes the complex rite of Orthodox High Mass. Sonorously the dead King's virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...
...most that we can hope for from any government is a compromise with Truth. In expecting miracles from our government, we must bear in mind that not EVEN Christ succeeded in making his much less complex society perfect according to his Truth. The men of our Administration might be spared some of the unjustness of such attacks as those described, and be given at least some appreciation and encouragement in their noble endeavors. Alfred M. Nittle...