Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introductory course to a field as large and complex as that of mathematics must necessarily cover a vast amount of ground, and numerous topics. In most elementary courses, however, the gaps between divisions are more successfully bridged than in Math...
...piccolo, as if they were all nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind, and knowing that in the field of optics the most evanescent tints can be reduced to the familiar primary colors, the recording engineers are in a sense no more...
...knowledge of organic chemistry is necessary for any good scientist, no matter what the field, and especially for medicine. Besides being a necessity, this course holds a certain fascination. It consists mostly in the description and preparation of hundreds of organic (carbon-containing) substances, with formulas sufficiently complex and yet obedient to laws to make excellent puzzle-problems. Working these formulas on paper has indeed been likened to playing with anagrams and cross-word puzzles...
...this sequel to "Those Earnest Victorians," Mr. Wingfield-Stratford sets himself the complex task of describing the several stages of twilight that followed the day of the mid-Victorians. In considering the diverse aspects of the last three decades of the century, his gifts for summary and the choice of significant detail enable him to be consistently solid, without opacity, and hence, consistently absorbing. The miscellaneous course of empire, comprising shoes as well as ships, and cabbages along with kings; the "crumbling of the old certainties," the decline of traditional society, the rise of sport for sport's sake...
...uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Giant (6-ft.-4-in.), ruddy Thornton played football for University of Pennsylvania (1891-94); was called from the Long Island Railroad in 1914 when Great Eastern's chairman found no "man in England capable of extricating us." Having solved Britain's complex Wartime train problems he was picked in 1922 for president & board chairman of Canadian National to save it from becoming "a spineless nuisance with nobody to kick and no soul to own." He turned a deficit into a surplus, resigned last year to give Depression politicians "a free hand...