Word: complexities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
...emphasis which the leaders of the Inquiry have put on "long-run changes," the need for which has been revealed by the depression, is important because they are the only ones applicable in particular to men who are at college now. Modern politics are infinitely complex and the ordinary intelligent citizen has few ways to educate himself to an understanding of the issues which are at the basis, or should be, of current political life. If the inquiry could succeed only in pointing out the direction of approach to these issues giving the student a knowledge of source material...
...tangible issues to work with?the Brown Derby,the Noble Experiment, the Church in Poli tics, Raddio, Two Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial...
Aeronautical engineers have long experimented with the two-cycle engine for airplanes. In such an engine the four strokes of the pistons-1) intake, 2) compression, 3) explosion, 4) exhaust- are reduced to 1) compression 2) explosion. Fuel is forced into and out of the cylinders by a pump. Complex lubrication is dispensed with by mixing oil with the gasoline. That advantage largely accounted for the failure of most experiments to date: the burned oil left heavy carbon deposits. Last week a new, light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade...
...this year. The revision of the city statutes is a reform which has been needed for twenty years. Many of the ordinances are not only contradictory among themselves, but are at variance with state statutes. New ordinances have been added each year until the situation has become so complex that city administrative heads can scarcely define their powers. The University has been of much service to Cambridge. The people and administration of the city appreciate the fine spirit of helpfulness that the University has shown in the problems confronting Cambridge...