Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex overhauling of veterans' compensation, allowance, pensions, insurance and hospitalization to save about $127,000,000. Examples: No Federal income tax payer could draw a pension. Civil disability allowances would be granted only the totally and permanently disabled. Retired emergency officers in hospitals would have their pensions cut to $20 per month after 30 days treatment. Veterans now drawing $50 per month for arrested tuberculosis would lose their compensation. A system of periodic physical examinations would weed out malingerers...
...almost always huge (an exception is Boston Braves' 167-lb. Center Tony Siano) but they do not lumber awkwardly like most huge college players. They must be light-footed, quick as eels, dextrous as jugglers. Professional line-play is clever, titanic and almost always evenly matched. Backfields use complex maneuvers which require split-second timing and the accuracy of basketballers in passing. Lateral passes develop from forwards, forwards from laterals, spinners and reverses have complications impossible and unnecessary for amateur teams. There are few long end runs because professional ends are too fast to flank, almost no double wing...
...avoidance of controversy or other excitement, sedative drugs-these are palliatives usually recommended. A few investigators have made their patients comfortable by cutting certain nerves. But that procedure, says Dr. Riley, is dangerous if only because the surgeons do not know exactly what nerves are involved in the migraine complex. He suggests attacking the problem by trying to prevent convulsions of blood vessels within the skull. At the same time he is trying to establish a healthy balance among the migraine victim's hormones...
...Cabot '89, professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics, in an address sponsored by the Harvard Unity Club at 7.30 o'clock tonight in Phillips Brooks House. The talk, which is open to all members of the University, will deal with the basis for making intelligent decisions in complex situations of occupational, vocational, and ethical life...
...types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which is common in flowering plants of a much more higher species. This proves that sex in the simple lower organisms is much more complex than was previously thought. Until about thirty years ago, no one had ever suspected that there was any sexuality in fungi...