Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labeled "Chairman of the Finance Committee." They all know "Big Jim"? James Augustine Farrell?who for 20 years has occupied the 18th floor office labeled "President." And they all know "Mr. Filbert," a keen-eyed man whose bald, round head is said to contain all the Corporation's complex statistics and who was recently elevated to vice chairman of the finance committee...
...Detractors of psychology are led into error by thinking that the extreme left-wing of expressionists, such as the New Yorker criticizes, in this week's issue, constitute the whole movement. Freud too has been misinterpreted. He does not mean that that an Oepidus complex (father-fixation) or a Jocasta complex (mother-fixation) is necessarily sexual...
...with outside institutions and instead attempt to stimulate intelligent public discussions within the University. By staging debates between House teams or different societies, a much larger number of men would be interested. This change of emphasis should accompany a change in the nature of the subjects debated from tremendous complex problems to subjects, like the House Plan and the new Harvard educational developments, with which the speakers have some immediate experience...
Associated Gas & Electric's progress has shown Mr. Hopson's deft accounting touches. Few in Wall Street except statisticians have ever mastered completely the complex A. G. & E. setup, yet Mr. Hopson is said to know off-hand every detail of its multitudinous preferred stocks and bonds and the issues of its subsidiary companies. He is the man who is thought to have worked towards one end recently: the substitution of A. G. & E. preferred stocks wherever possible in the place of subsidiaries' securities. Accomplishment of that end to a great degree has placed A. G. & E. in a stronger...
...also an inventive carnivore. With every fresh invention Man advances further outside the bounds of Nature. To maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders' technical monopoly. But as the led must always work still harder, they begin to strike, revolt. Mutiny even among the leaders spreads against the machine...